PARIS - European aerospace giant Airbus sought a partner to help the company modernize its engineering methods and tools. They found their solutions from Sopra Steria in Paris.
Sopra Steria will help Airbus modernize its engineering processes, methods, and tools in line with the sector's key priorities, such as reducing carbon emissions from the production process, improving product lifecycle management software, and developing innovative future aviation tools. This new partnership will involve over 700 Sopra Steria employees, drawing on expertise from Sopra Steria's Aeroline vertical, including its subsidiaries CIMPA and CS Group.
The multi-year agreement covers Canada, France, Germany, India, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and encompasses every area of Airbus' engineering such as airframe, flight physics, engines, systems, and flight and propulsion testing.
Sopra Steria will help Airbus roll out its new flight management system [avionics], to develop better flight control data, as well as help streamline its product lifecycle management (PLM) process to improve energy efficiency and optimize production.
"Today, we're proud to see Sopra Steria established as a leading player in the aeronautics industry, working alongside key players like Airbus," commented Matthieu Bonte, Engineering Market Director at Sopra Steria. "Through this partnership, we're joining forces to meet the challenges facing the sector, whether in terms of modernization, upskilling or decarbonization. To meet societal expectations, the aeronautics industry must accelerate its transition now – and that's exactly what our roadmap is geared towards."
Josselin Demessine, Head of Sopra Steria's Engineering business line, added, "It's great to see our expertise across the aeronautics value chain recognized in this way by one of the giants in the sector. By combining the expert skills of our Aeroline vertical with the experience of CIMPA and CS Group, we're now able to offer fully integrated tools that meet all the sector's needs, both now and in the future."
