Sky Eye Systems is a specialist in small, tactical, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
To bring its Rapier aircraft to market, the Italian startup selected the 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud platform and the Reinvent the Sky industry solution to enable visibility and collaboration between designers and engineers and speed up development processes.
Certifying Lightweight Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems
As interest in the company’s aircraft grows and it looks to expand its portfolio, Sky Eye Systems required a centralized data platform for robust product lifecycle management (PLM). It needed to be able to track changes and design modifications and bring full visibility to every aspect of the product development lifecycle. All these requirements were met in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud.
Up to Speed on the Cloud
“Dassault Systèmes' partner, Cad Solution Provider (CSP), has played an essential role in this implementation,” Giovanni Fumia said. “At the start of the process, we showed them how we work and what we wanted to achieve. They helped us to identify our requirements and demonstrated how the platform would help us. Since then, they have delivered ongoing advice and support to ensure we get the most from this technology.”
A cloud version of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform was a clear choice for the startup, allowing it to get up to speed without needing an established server infrastructure or making a big upfront investment.
“For a small company like us, it’s much more efficient to use the cloud than build a complex IT architecture. The cloud solution also guarantees maximum uptime, even if there’s a local disaster, and the in-built security assures us that our data is always safe. It’s cost-effective and we appreciate the out-of-the-box functionality with all best practices already embedded in the platform,”
Francesco Paterni, Design Engineer at Sky Eye Systems, said.
A Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Space
With all disciplines collaborating on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, including electronics, mechanical, and software engineering, everyone at Sky Eye Systems has full visibility of the product development process and can access the information they need.
“Now, everyone can store, manage and share data on the same platform with the same interface. In less than a second, they can pull up the right information. It’s far faster than searching through folders on local drives or sending emails back and forth,” Francesco Paterni said.
With ENOVIA, concurrent engineering on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables Sky Eye Systems to identify and mitigate issues early on, from software to mechanical design and the platform is easing collaboration with suppliers too.
