Vertical Aerospace to develop latest eVTOL aircraft using Dassault Systèmes’ cloud platform

Ver­ti­cal Aero­space is to devel­op its next gen­er­a­tion eVTOL air­craft with Das­sault Sys­tèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form on the cloud.

The Bris­tol-based firm will use the ‘Rein­vent the Sky’ indus­try solu­tion expe­ri­ence to man­age the com­plex devel­op­ment of the pro­to­type by its team of 100 engi­neers and tech­ni­cal experts, even when work­ing remote­ly.  

The 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form on the cloud uni­fies design, engi­neer­ing, test­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing dis­ci­plines across the enter­prise in one col­lab­o­ra­tive dig­i­tal envi­ron­ment to meet needs rang­ing from require­ments through to end design and qual­i­ty.

“At Ver­ti­cal Aero­space we were for­tu­nate to have moved onto the 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form on cloud before we were remote work­ing,” said Owen Thomp­son Cheel, Flight Sys­tems IPT Lead at Ver­ti­cal Aero­space.  

“The team has all they need to work from home and by using the plat­form on cloud we have been able to con­tin­ue work­ing with vir­tu­al­ly no dif­fer­ence in per­for­mance. It’s an excel­lent case for work­ing on the cloud, and the 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form has allowed us to remain agile and secure with­out loss of capa­bil­i­ty, effec­tive­ly main­tain­ing busi­ness con­ti­nu­ity.”  

In 2019, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space released flight footage of their lat­est eVTOL air­craft, Ser­aph. It can car­ry 250 kilo­grams – the equiv­a­lent of three pas­sen­gers – and fly at speeds up to 80 kph (50 mph).  

The com­plex­i­ty of the third gen­er­a­tion eVTOL required advanced func­tion­al­i­ties for elec­tri­cal sys­tems, change man­age­ment, reg­u­la­tions and com­pli­ance, as well as greater col­lab­o­ra­tion among teams.

Fol­low­ing a com­pet­i­tive eval­u­a­tion, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space select­ed the 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form on the cloud to sup­port its vision of decar­bon­is­ing air trav­el with proven tech­nol­o­gy in the avi­a­tion, ener­gy and auto­mo­tive indus­tries.   

David Ziegler, Vice Pres­i­dent, Aero­space & Defense Indus­try, Das­sault Sys­tèmes, said: “Dis­rup­tive inno­va­tors like Ver­ti­cal Aero­space are using the 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form on the cloud to advance their com­pelling vision for sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty and invent new indus­tries.

“As busi­ness­es today must com­plete­ly rethink the way they work, the 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form on the cloud offers the largest port­fo­lio of appli­ca­tions for prod­uct design and engi­neer­ing from any­where, with a high lev­el of per­for­mance and secure, effi­cient access to data.”

Das­sault Sys­tèmes pro­vides busi­ness­es and peo­ple with col­lab­o­ra­tive vir­tu­al envi­ron­ments to imag­ine sus­tain­able inno­va­tions. By cre­at­ing ‘vir­tu­al expe­ri­ence twins’ of the real world with its 3DEXPERIENCE plat­form and appli­ca­tions, cus­tomers can push the bound­aries of inno­va­tion, learn­ing and pro­duc­tion.