Aerospace

3D Printing in Aerospace

Benefit from our state-of-the-art 3D printing service tailored to meet the most stringent quality and safety standards of the aerospace industry. Our team of dedicated engineers prioritizes your needs and provides unwavering support throughout every phase of your project. We harness efficient and cutting-edge technologies, ensuring exceptional repeatability. This empowers us to produce certified, lightweight and durable flight-ready components.

Advantages of Solaxis 3D Printing for the Aerospace Industry:

  • Streamlined Certification: Our methodology and process specifications facilitate the certification of aeronautical parts.
  • Comprehensive Manufacturing Management: Our system ensures the complete traceability of equipment and raw materials.
  • No tooling required.
  • Consolidation of assemblies and minimizing the number of parts required.
  • Design freedom for complex geometries.
  • Enhanced weight efficiency.
  • Certified aerospace thermoplastics (FST – FAR 25.853).
  • Tailored machine park for aircraft interiors.
3D Printing in Aerospace
3D-Printed Certified Flight Parts

3D-Printed Certified Flight Parts

Leveraging our 3D printing expertise to produce individual units or short series brings you substantial time and financial savings. In most cases, additive manufacturing is faster than traditional manufacturing and requires no tooling. With our cutting-edge technologies, you can produce flight-certified parts faster and more cost-effectively.

  • Interior panels and finishes
  • Ventilation ducts
  • Special parts for private airplanes
  • Yoke control handles
  • Clips, supports and fasteners
  • Logos
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3D-Printed Functional Prototypes

3D-Printed Functional Prototypes

To produce functional prototypes, we use engineering thermoplastics with properties comparable to those of the final parts. 3D-printed functional prototypes speed up your parts’ development by allowing them to be tested and corrected both quickly and efficiently. In addition to the above-mentioned parts, we also make prototypes for:

  • Exterior and interior panels
  • Substitution parts
    • While waiting to receive the original
    • To validate machining programs
    • To validate CMM inspection programs
  • Parts for marketing, sales and photo shoots
  • Parts for wind tunnel testing
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3D-Printed Tooling and Jigs

3D-Printed Tooling and Jigs

When it comes to your manufacturing and assembly methods, we provide tooling that meets aeronautics industry requirements for quality and safety while maximizing your operational efficiency.

  • Positioning tools
  • Maintenance tools
  • Assembly tools
  • Complex-geometry wire protectors
  • CMM fixtures
  • Drilling, cutting and finishing jigs
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Quality
THE HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTION PROCESS, IT STRUCTURE AND DATA AUTOMATION DEVELOPED BY SOLAXIS ASSURE GOOD MANAGEMENT AND TRACEABILITY OF PROJECTS IN THE AEROSPACE SECTOR.
Quality assurance

Quality assurance

  • Continuous improvement program
  • Solaxis’s quality policy
  • Efficient and automated quality system
  • Focus on industry 4.0: innovation, automation and excellent reliability
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Product compliance management

Product compliance management

  • Dimensional Inspection
  • Conformity of raw materials
  • Conformity procedure
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High-quality production

High-quality production

  • Understanding phase
  • Design and programming phase
  • Production phase
  • Quality phase
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Certifications

Certifications

  • ISO 9001:2015
  • AS 9100:2016
  • Controlled Goods Program
  • Aero Montreal – MACH 3
  • Cybersecurity

Example of achievement

3D Printed Parts for Aerospace

3D Printed Parts for Aerospace

Customer

Aerospace

Mandate

To produce various short-series parts to be added to assemblies for aeronautics needs.

Goals

  • The main goal was to be able to order the components in small quantities, depending on the customer’s needs.
  • Most of the parts required a specific finish.

Results

  • The customer ordered a number of parts from us, specifying multiple release dates and quantities to meet its production schedule. We always deliver within established deadlines.
  • Thanks to our internal capacities, we were able to finish the parts in compliance with aeronautics standards.
  • We also delivered all the documentation the customer would need for the activity sector.
  • Our flexibility and the quality of the parts were key factors for the customer, who has since entrusted us with other similar projects.

Case study

 

PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF

PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF

Customer

Aerospace

Mandate

Prototyping for polycarbonate wiring conduits

Goals

When the aircraft recently underwent an experimental tail-wiring upgrade, technicians at Bell Xworx opted for the industrial FDM technology with the Fortus system to build tough polycarbonate wiring conduits. Technicians installed the branching conduits in six mating sections inside the Osprey’s twin vertical stabilizers for on-the-ground testing of its wiring.

Return on investment

Return on investment

  • Unlike traditional methods (machining, injection, liquid resin casting, etc.), the Solaxis solution avoids expenses associated with programming and investing in complex and expensive tooling to produce small quantities.
  • Flexible delivery also yields the benefits of LEAN Manufacturing, thanks to just-in- time (JIT) sourcing.
Bombardier

Aerospace and Defence | Renowned innovation expertise in business aircraft

“Thank you Solaxis for your dedication and commitment to this project! The parts are all outstanding and we are very satisfied. Not a single part was damaged during shipping, and there were no identification errors.”
Bombardier
Product Development Engineering

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The Solaxis Difference

Expertise

  • Advanced additive manufacturing for the aerospace sector
  • Finishing that meets the aerospace and military standards
  • Cybersecurity
  • First Article Inspection – FAIR
  • Certificate of conformity – CoC
  • ISO 9001, AS 9100 and Controlled Goods Programs certifications
  • High-performance thermoplastics
    • Impact, heat, mechanical, chemical, UV and dielectric resistance
    • Antistatic
    • Self-lubricating to minimize wear
    • FST- FAR 25.853

Modern Facilities

  • A variety of cutting-edge manufacturing equipment
  • Finishing department that meets the aerospace and military standards
  • Reliability guaranteed by our auxiliary equipment:
    • Industrial generator and UPS backup, as well as high-performance servers
    • ERP system and EPDM vault
The Solaxis Difference