When B/E Aerospace transferred seat shapes from standalone industrial design software into CAD, it lost design intent and wasted countless hours recovering from translation errors.

Japanese Airlines (JAL) gave B/E Aerospace a tall order to supply JAL with a business class flat seat that was as good as its first-class seats, but would take up less space. The challenge for B/E Aerospace’s design team was allowing the industrial design and engineering people to collaborate with compatible digital tools. Translated files were full of errors, costing valuable time.

Using Siemens PLM Software – NX Shape Studio for industrial design and NX Design for mechanical engineering – B/E Aerospace eliminated data translation altogether by using a single data format from styling through mechanical engineering.