- 9 October 2006 -
Terma buys VISTAGY software

TERMA AS will use VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® software to develop parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft. VISTAGY’s FiberSIM Advanced Composite Engineering Environment™ (ACEE), Documentation and Laser Projection software applications will be used to design and manufacture the aircraft parts. The parts are made using carbon fibre composites.

Benny Daugholm, Joint Strike Fighter programme manager for Terma, believes the system will reduce overall design costs and delivery time.

The ACEE is integrated into existing CAD software systems to provide specialised functions for the design and automation of manufacturing complex composite products. Documentation software gives engineers the capacity to generate and customise documents such as material tables, sequence charts and ply lay-up diagrams.

Laser data files are automatically generated in the CAD software system from a 3D model of a composite part with the Laser Projection software. The files can then be exported to advanced laser projection machines that project ply outlines directly onto a lay-up tool.

Terma, based in Grenaa, Denmark, is a developer of products and systems for the aerospace industry.

Terma AS; www.terma.com

VISTAGY Inc; www.vistagy.com

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