Enhancing Product Design in Electric Aviation Through Digital Twins and Production Feedback Integration

Electric flight accelerates innovation and demands digitalization. DIREKT develops digital twins across the lifecycle of (hybrid) electric propulsion systems to fuse data, cut costs, and shorten time-to-market. In this context we present a production-to-design feedback approach. A system is developed which compares the scanned manufactured part with the design to visualize manufacturing deviations to improve upcoming designs. The system is tested with three different additive manufacturing technologies and two parts from an urban air mobility electric propulsion system. Furthermore, the comparison data is stored in a knowledge base for machine-learning-driven deviation prediction later on.