Passenger Experience will offer design engineers a platform to design, personalize, validate and simulate the in-flight experience of an interior cabin. The aim of the program is to improve the quality, productivity, and time to market of aircraft interiors, while reducing their development costs.
“Companies in the aviation industry look for tools, services, content, best practices and return on experience to better differentiate from the competition, profitably,” said Michel Tellier, VP at Dassault Systèmes. “Partnering with a leading engineering company like Assystem enables us to offer an integrated approach that dramatically improves sales and margins to help customers reach their goals.”
The Passenger Experience solution includes:
- 3D visualizations to improve concept & prototype iterations
- Cabin completion tools for automated & repeatable configurations
- Visual interactive systems to train & optimize the cabin for flight teams before construction
- Interactive 3D to promote cabins before construction
“Our partnership with Dassault Systèmes and its ‘Passenger Experience’ industry solution experience combines decades of specialization in the aviation industry and is a further demonstration of our desire to continue to offer innovative solutions to the market,” said Jeff Hoyle, VP of Assystem. “Jointly we can help transform aircraft cabin design innovation into a manufacturable and certifiable product that will delight passengers.”
The ability to delight passengers is a tall order in the aviation industry. You don’t have to rack up a lot of flyer miles to know that the majority of flights are quick to induce muscle cramps and feelings of claustrophobia.
If you are lucky, however, you may get to enjoy a flight with a resurgence of the “passenger first” mentality. These brands hope to improve customer loyalty with an improved in-flight experience from first to business class, and Passenger Experience is clearly targeting this portion of the aerospace industry.
With Passenger Experience, perhaps we will be able to stretch our legs again in future air travels. Have you noticed an improvement in comfort on airlines? How can engineers help move the industry towards this path? Discuss below.