Scaling Engineering: How Thales Alenia Space Explored Cognitive Design’s Potential to Streamline Engineering Across an Entire Bracket Family

In this webinar, we will explain how CDS helped Thales Alenia Space (TAS) automate the development of an entire family of high-performance antenna reflector tripod supports by leveraging the potential of Cognitive Design.

By leveraging design exploration tools and building a reusable workflow applicable to a broad family of supports with dozens of different configurations, this project opened new perspectives for TAS teams to deliver lightweight, manufacturable models faster while meeting the most demanding mechanical requirements.

This approach shows the potential for significant gains, including the possibility of halving engineering lead time and reducing the average mass of each bracket by 30%, all while ensuring full compliance with performance constraints.

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What you will learn

You will understand how our new Design Explorer and reusable workflows - combining advanced topology optimization, simulation-driven design, and the integration of manufacturing constraints - enable engineering teams to accelerate the development of entire families of components. Beyond the optimization of individual parts, you will discover how Cognitive Design can be a powerful lever to identify, share, and adapt an evolving design methodology that delivers reproducible performance gains and can be applied to any family of parts.

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Key takeaways

- Explore and identify the right design for demanding specifications

- Building reusable and scalable workflows to address the diversity and volume of part families

- Maximizing performance and reducing mass through AI-driven generative design

- Integrating simulation and manufacturing constraints from the earliest design stages

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