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Accelerating Development for the Aerospace Industry

Fictiv accelerates innovation and simplifies sourcing for aerospace – from prototype to production.

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Design & Manufacturing Guidance from Industry Experts

AS9100 Certified CNC Machining Partners

Tight tolerances & 2D drawings accepted

In-Network Finisihing, Joining and Assembly

Aerospace Manufacturing from Prototype to Production for
New Product Development

Fictiv only supports manufacturing of aerospace parts for non-export-restricted projects.

Prototype

EVT

DVT

PVT

Production

Prototyping

Rapid turn-around times for early stage designs with a wide range of 3D printing technologies and urethane casting.

Rapid iterations on early stage designs

FDM & PolyJet 3D Printing

Detailed prototypes for complex geometry

Rapid Urethane Casting

Looks-like models

Rapid Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing

High-resolution functional prototypes

Rapid Polyjet, SLS, or 
SLA 3D Printing

Fictiv's Platform enables an endless combination of processes, materials and finishes.
Here are some commonly used by our customers in the Aerospace industry:

CNC Machining

Tight tolerances and finishing capabilities, as fast as 1 day.

Sheet Metal

5+ Precision Processes Parts as Fast as 3 Days

Injection Molding

T1 samples as fast as 10 days with
low minimum order quantities.

Urethane Casting

T1 samples as fast as 10 days with
low minimum order quantities.

Compression Molding

Lower tooling costs, ideal for large parts and high-strength materials.

Die Casting

Create high quality custom mechanicals with precision and accuracy.

Fictiv Expert Guidance on Aerospace Product Development

Abhishek Das is a Fictiv Customer Program Manager with over 7 years experience in aerospace design and manufacturing and Samson Olanrewaju is a Fictiv Technical Applications Engineer with over 10 years of aerospace engineering experience.

 

Here are their top tips:

 

  1. Fundamental Principles:
    • Understand the basics and fundamental principles behind aerospace engineering, including aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, materials science, and propulsion systems.
  2. Material Research and Testing:
    • Focus on learning about the materials you are using. Research them and test them out.
    • Understand the finishing processes and why you should choose one over the other.
  3. Software Proficiency
    • Gain proficiency in industry-standard software like ANSYS, MATLAB, SolidWorks, etc.
    • Understand how to leverage these tools to your advantage.
    • Don’t overlook surface modeling as it can be a powerful tool in your engineering arsenal.
  4. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD):
    • Develop a great understanding of CFD, as it can reduce design iterations.
  5. Design for Manufacturability:
    • Consider manufacturability when designing any part.
    • When setting up a model tree in CAD, keep the process flow in mind.
    • Stay updated with current manufacturing technology improvements.
  6. Hands-on Manufacturing Experience:
    • If you have access to a machine shop, try manufacturing processes yourself.
  7. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T):
    • Learn to master geometric tolerances early on; this prevents excessive use of direct limit tolerances.
    • Consider tolerance stack-up early in assembly design.
  8. Prototyping:
    • Utilize 3D printing for prototyping CNC machined parts.
    • Gain as much hands-on experience with prototyping as possible.
  9. Poka-Yoke Principle:
    • Apply the poka-yoke principle when designing fixtures/jigs, theorizing about manufacturability, and determining how to assemble parts.

Why Aerospace Companies Choose Fictiv

Increased Productivity

Engineers get time back by not dealing with immature supply chains or lack of supply chain staffing in their company and get parts fast.

With quotes in minutes and parts in days, aerospace engineers can reduce cycle times by as much as 50% with Fictiv.

10x Tighter Tolerances

Fictiv can machine parts with tolerances as tight as+/ - 0.0001 in -10x greater precision compared to other leading services.

World Class Quality

Fictiv provides aerospace parts for leading aerospace enterprises, verified to be compliant with ISO9001 quality standard by a certified registrar. Also, our network includes AS9100 certified manufacturing partners, as needed.

Nadcap special process certified finishing shops integrated in our fortune-500 network.

CASE STUDY

Honeywell Aerospace

Using Fictiv, the manufacturing engineering team at Honeywell Aerospace was able to cut down the lead time for a critical component in the RE100 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) from 22 weeks to just 3 weeks.
Image Credit: Honeywell

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Simplified Sourcing for the Aerospace Industry

*Fictiv only supports manufacturing of aerospace parts for non-export-restricted projects.

  • Actuators
  • Optical Systems
  • Valves
  • MRO Replacement Parts
  • Gears
  • Engine Parts
  • Structural Components
  • Fuel and Oil System Parts
  • Fittings

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Resources for Aerospace Engineers

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Solving 7 Common Problems in CNC Machining Aerospace Components

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Tolerance Stack Ups 501: Going Beyond Mechanical Fit and Into Predictive Design

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