Engineering and Construction by PFW
| CAE-Software |
| - CATIA V4 |
| - CATIA V5 |
| - CCD |
| - NASTRAN |
| - TOPSOLID (NC-programming) |
| - PATTS |
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| PLM Software |
| - SAP |
| - TAKSY |
| - ENOVIA |
| - VPM |
| - PRIMES |
GCT, founded in 1995, employs some 500 engineers and has access to over 20,000 aerospace specialists. This enables access to the latest experience of any detail of every ATA chapter in an airplane.
Today the company is fully incorporated within the PFW Aerospace Group. This allows GCT to offer tailored engineering services of any kind to our customers--optionally with or without the corresponding competence in manufacturing. Additionally, our fully EASA-certified design organization (e.g. for the EASA 21J Airworthiness Certificate for the Dornier 328 aircraft family) significantly adds to our offering of capabilities to the aerospace market and paves the way for GCT as it reaches for the highest level of aviation engineering.
The growth and development in new aircraft large-system design in recent years has prepared GCT for every challenge that can arise in this demanding industry.
Given our teams of leading design and analysis engineers to support Airbus, Boeing and first-tier suppliers around the globe, we're best positioned to continue providing the highest possible service in aviation engineering.
GCT undertakes engineering work packages and turnkey projects for complete aircraft systems using the latest CAD and analysis tools. We provide full service, including design, stress analysis and certification, project management, sub-supplier coordination/monitoring, and short-term/long-term project support.
Early project entry for efficient sequencesPFW is available for every customer project, from the birth of the idea. If requested, experienced engineers from various fields will support you even during the definition of the requirements and the system design.
Thinking ahead for maximum efficiencyIn this case, all system-relevant parameters from the derivation of the defined frame requirements are will be taken into consideration. And so everything is thought of ahead of time - even in the first phase of the project - for a high degree of efficiency in terms of cost and weight. While doing so, PFW profits through its enormous know-how in the realm of innovative manufacturing processes.
From system to interfaceThe basis for the start of construction is a detailed specification which provides insight into all system-relevant requirements. PFW supports you during the preparation of the specification in compliance with functional, weight and cost-relevant influence variables.
Evaluate alternatives - preclude risks
For every system or subsystem we first of all prepare a list of all project-relevant parameters. And so it is possible for us - within the scope of the preliminary design - to provide a weighted evaluation of all construction approaches coming into question, and thus to realise a rapid localisation of the essential factors. The conclusion entails necessary adaptations to the specification, even based on conducted developmental analyses and subsequently associated risk analyses. The PDR (Preliminary Design Review), in the scope of which all project-relevant data are determined for the further construction and development process, takes place as the conclusion of the preconstruction.
Three-dimensional objects, also from metal
Based on increasingly newer and more complex requirements posed on the geometry and material quality of components within more costly systems, PFW relies on the latest method of rapid prototyping. And so we are able to compare various designs with one another in the shortest time, and corroborate extensive studies in the form of hardware.
PATTS - the tool for ultimate performanceThe detailing by means of the most modern technology occurs on the basis of the preliminary design. In addition to the hardware, the software - thanks to individual additional developments - is also substantially responsible for a precise and rapid realisation of costly projects. In this phase we also prepare - in addition to the actual construction - all necessary planning of series tests, up to and including definitive integration planning, under consideration of all customer-specific parameters.
As one of the worldwide leading providers of tubing systems, we offer unique performance in the field of construction of complex tubing systems. The self-developed software PATTS (Parametric Analysis Tool for Tubing Systems) enables an extremely rapid reaction to any form of design changes. As a result, the system is able to virtually independently take into consideration all of the factors affected through the change and to present an immediate statement on cost and weight development. Thanks to interfaces to the utilised construction programmes, the adaptation to a central point is enough to anchor the design change in the overall project.
The basis for a secure operationIn order to ensure smooth utilisation of the systems to be developed, comprehensive tests are conducted within the scope of qualification for all components. Based on our extensive licences (link to the certificates), a majority of the qualification measures take place in-house. Further tests and analyses will be conducted at various recognised institutes.
Accuracy thanks to permanent data presenceAfter effected release in the CDR (Critical Design Review), all prepared steps are made for the production start. In this case, the production start in the realm of the tubing systems represents a special feature.
PFW relies on modern, networked operational sequences. And so the data taken directly from the construction are entered into a laser-supported measuring unit which can measure the tubing segments three-dimensionally. Precisely these data are subsequently passed on to ultramodern CNC-controlled automatic bending machines. The result is subsequently controlled on the measuring table, and necessary adaptations are automatically undertaken on the programme in the automatic bending machines. This cycle is repeated until an absolutely exact result is achieved. Only then is the serial production started, in the course of which the results are repeatedly examined by means of laser metrology.
Efficient thanks to permanent actuality
During their entire production, time systems and components are supported through the PFW engineering department. On the one hand, this is done to guarantee permanent actuality of all parameters; but on the other hand, this is also done in order to be able allow new findings and experiences from other projects to flow into the production processes of existing components. While doing so, the increase of efficiency and the weight savings are the focal point of PFW considerations.
Preliminary Design Review
Critical Design Review
Company Structure
