Aerospace Solutions
Satisfy customer requirements, maximize performance, and meet strict safety standards
Technology & Process Solutions
Javelin 3D Technology enables aerospace manufacturers to grow their businesses profitably while responding more rapidly to Requests for Quotes (RFQs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) with improved accuracy for pursuing new markets and taking on new competitors.
Our solutions allow aerospace designers to:
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Work with a single centralized Bill of Materials (BOM)
Define, communicate, collaborate, and predict how designs will perform so they can be optimized before they are built.
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Design and Analyze Parts
Design complex machined and sheet metal parts, work concurrently in 3D and create flat patterns.
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Reuse Existing Parts
Minimize redundant parts and change modifications by finding and leveraging existing parts.
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Manage Product Development
Technology that facilitates multi-site manufacturing, supply chain operations and quality compliance.
Additive Manufacturing Solutions
3D printing provides manufacturers with prototyping, advanced tooling and production applications. 3D printed parts are now commonplace on aircraft and spacecraft — cementing the technology as an engineering mainstay.
Our additive solutions allow aerospace manufacturers to:
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Create certified production parts
Fly with less weight, reduce complexity, and simplify production with certified 3D printed parts.
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Conduct Rapid Prototyping and 3D print Injection Molds
Solve design challenges before committing to expensive and time-consuming tooling and production.
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3D Print Composite Tooling
Streamline the cost and complexities of aerospace production with on-demand composite tools.
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3D Print Jigs and Fixtures
With 3D printed tooling you can avoid high machining costs for custom tools or parts needed for individual repairs and restorations.
Technology for Aerospace Design
Drive innovation and affordability with SOLIDWORKS Technology
Using SOLIDWORKS® software aerospace engineers are able to design complex machined and sheet metal parts and work concurrently in 3D and flat patterns. Powerful and intuitive SOLIDWORKS Simulation software allows aerospace engineers to virtually test new ideas, quickly and efficiently evaluate performance, and improve quality. Automated design and check rules reduce design and manufacturing errors. Discover design technology:
SOLIDWORKS Premium
SOLIDWORKS Premium includes powerful simulation, motion, and validation tools, wire and pipe routing functionality, and reverse engineering capabilities
Customer Example
How Aerospace Engineers use SOLIDWORKS Technology
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Aeryon Labs design Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for a range of applications around the world.
Aeryon use SOLIDWORKS solutions to create molds, test their drones, and optimize the aircraft’s weight and performance, passing savings and benefits on to their customers.
Aerospace Process Management
Communicate and collaborate with your team and suppliers
Break down barriers within teams and suppliers with a single centralized Bill of Materials (BOM) from any CAD model. Define, communicate, collaborate, and predict how designs will perform so they can be optimized before they are built. Minimize redundant parts and change modifications by leveraging existing parts. Securely reuse product design Intellectual Property (IP) across projects to focus on innovation.
SOLIDWORKS Manage
Extends SOLIDWORKS PDM with advanced capabilities that allow teams to manage project timelines and resources, complex business processes, and advanced item management.
Additive Manufacturing Aerospace Solutions
Advanced materials and techniques for part production
Overview
Production expertise is critical to many of our aerospace customers. Javelin has an expert aerospace manufacturing engineering team with critical technical knowledge.
Our industry knowledge and our abilities to support high requirement applications is what brings aerospace companies to us. Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) with additive manufacturing allows for the creation of rigid, lightweight aerospace parts, leveraging advanced materials such as Ultem 9085, not achievable with other manufacturing methods.
Our customers, such as L3, Bombardier, Boeing and Standard Aero are but a few partners benefiting from these advancements in additive technologies and materials. Like others in the aerospace industry, they are experiencing performance improvements with superior lightweight part design from integrated structures and component consolidation.
By reducing weight, part count, design constraints and supply-chain risk, additive manufacturing is creating new production efficiencies for the aerospace industry.
Typical Applications
Our software and additive solutions help aerospace designers and manufacturers to produce:
- Enclosures & Interior Panels/Components
- Liquid and Fuel Tanks
- Gimbals
- Grommets & Clips
- Air Flow Ducts
- Control Surfaces
- UAV Components
- Mounting Brackets
Additive Manufacturing Machines & Materials
Stratasys 3D Printing gets your Parts off the ground faster
Aerospace engineers use Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Technology for prototyping, tooling and part manufacturing. FDM works with high-performance thermoplastics, including ULTEM 9085, to build jigs, fixtures, check gauges & end-use parts.
Improve production efficiency and flight performance while simplifying inventory with strong, lightweight composite parts. For interior components, soften the impact of late design changes to keep production on track. 3D print flight-ready parts like housings and ductwork in-house with certified, traceable material.
FDM Nylon-CF10
Stratasys FDM Nylon-CF10 is a composite material combining a blended nylon polymer with chopped carbon fiber enhancing strength and rigidity
ABS-CF10
Stratasys ABS-CF10 combines standard ABS 3D printing material with 10% chopped carbon fiber, 50% stiffer and 15% stronger than standard ABS
Diran 410MF07
Diran 410MF07 is a nylon-based thermoplastic FDM material. Typical applications include jigs, fixtures and other forms of general manufacturing tooling.
Antero 840CN03
Antero 840CN03 is a PEKK based composite with carbon nanotubes giving it excellent mechanical, chemical, outgassing, and ESD properties.
ESD PEKK
ESD PEKK is a thermoplastic with static dissipative properties for applications where a static charge can damage products or impair performance.
Antero 800NA
Antero 800NA PEKK-based thermoplastic combines FDM’s design freedom with the excellent mechanical properties and low outgassing characteristics of PEKK.
ST-130 Sacrificial Tooling
ST-130 Sacrificial Tooling material simplifies the production of hollow composite parts. Complex tools can be 3D printed and easily dissolved after curing.
ULTEM 9085
ULTEM 9085 resin material lets manufacturers create functional prototypes and production parts for high-strength, FST-rated and certified applications.
FDM Nylon 12
FDM Nylon 12 combines strength with excellent fatigue properties suitable for repetitive closures, snap fits and vibration-resistant parts.
ABS-M30
ABS-M30 is ideal for conceptual modeling, functional prototyping, manufacturing tools and production parts. ABS-M30 has greater strength than standard ABS.
FDM TPU 92A
FDM TPU 92A brings the benefits of elastomers to Stratasys FDM 3D printing and offers the capability to quickly produce large and complex elastomer parts.
Additive Manufacturing Applications
How do Aerospace engineers use 3D printers?
Production End-use Parts
Stratasys 3D Printers are ideal for low production runs as they build the most durable, stable, repeatable on-demand end-use parts in the industry
Rapid Prototyping
Rapid prototyping with a Stratasys 3D Printer helps companies turn great ideas into successful products faster than ever before by 3D printing your prototypes.
Why Stratasys 3D Printing for Aerospace?
Recommended Aerospace Machine
Stratasys F900 Production System
The ultimate manufacturing-grade production 3D printer ideal for the aerospace industry.
Featuring the widest array of engineering-grade materials, maximum throughput, largest build platform, and highest accuracy.
Create Components Faster
Stratasys FDM machines work with production grade thermoplastics including ULTEM 9085, which provides an ideal solution for the manufacturing of component parts for aircraft, as it is lightweight and able to withstand intense heat (flame retardant).
Reduce Production Costs
By replacing expensive and lead-time critical CNC-milled parts with in-house manufactured plastic parts, you can dramatically reduce your production costs. The printed plastic parts also perform better technically, weigh less, and provide better electrical insulation.
Improve performance with Composite Parts
Improve production efficiency and flight performance while simplifying inventory with strong, lightweight composite parts. Also save time and find more ways to optimize by 3D printing your tooling for composite parts. For interior components, soften the impact of late design changes to keep production on track. 3D print flight-ready parts like housings and duct work in-house with certified, traceable material.
Featured Solution
Produce Certified Aircraft Interiors with 3D printing
Certifying additively manufactured parts for aircraft installation just got a lot easier.
The Stratasys Certified Aircraft Interiors gives aerospace companies a faster, more streamlined process.
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