Future Engineering System research project to be hosted by CFMS

The Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS) has announced it will be leading the Future Engineering System (FES) Project. With a project value of £4.22m, FES is a three-year project supported by the joint industry and government aerospace R&D funding programme, delivered as a partnership between the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, the Aerospace Technology Institute and Innovate UK.

FES brings together CFMS, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Sysemia and eQ-Technologic with academic specialists from the Sheffield Advanced Computing Research Centre and Leeds University Socio-Technical Centre. The consortium will develop and demonstrate a prototype future engineering system infrastructure to fully integrate engineering data sources within the process lifecycle management (PLM) tool chain.

Within the FES, the project will demonstrate the integration of raw data from CFD and FEA analyses via JT Open to Siemens PLM, with Uncertainty Quantification and Management functions and automated agent-based quality control. This will be exercised against real industrial use cases from Rolls Royce and demonstrated within a prototype system at CFMS.

Sam Paice, chief operating officer, CFMS, said: “FES will demonstrate the reduced effort required to integrate packages into enterprise systems. Hosted at CFMS, it will provide a platform for wider dissemination and community engagement within the aerospace, civil, automotive and renewable energy sectors.”