Preliminary Design

Applying state-of-the-art tools and strategies the early design phase offers tremendous benefits for businesses dealing with complex engineering processes in terms of cost, time to market and product innovation and enables them to enter into the more costly and laborious detailed design phases with a validated initial design carefully chosen from the available pool of promising options.

Our preliminary design solutions use a consistent object-oriented data model and knowledge-based working techniques in capturing, formalizing and applying engineering knowledge. These are key prerequisites for their most salient characteristic – the outstanding ease with which engineers can set up and redefine their own design tasks.

Pacelab SuiteGeneric KBE platform for preliminary product design

Pacelab Suite is the leading generic KBE design platform which provides an integrated working environment for complex, interdisciplinary engineering tasks. Due to its high scalability and extensibility, Pacelab Suite can be flexibly applied to a wide range of engineering domains and serves as the enabling technology of our vertical solutions for preliminary aircraft design and systems architecture design.

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Pacelab APDFast, multi-level exploration of alternative aircraft designs

Pacelab APD supports the conceptual modeling, sizing, analysis and optimization of new and derivative aircraft and is packed with a library of predefined aircraft and engine models, geometric aircraft components, mass and aerodynamic estimation modules and a comprehensive performance calculation kernel to analyze design and off-design missions.

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Pacelab SysArcAircraft-level investigations of systems architectures

Pacelab SysArc represents a novel technical approach to aircraft-level design and analysis of aircraft system architectures, which unites the logical definition of systems architectures with the physical layout of system components and their connections in the aircraft geometry. This holistic approach eliminates the risk of design inconsistencies or unforeseen behavior in the integration phase and ensures a reliable prediction of the architecture's impact on the aircraft’s key performance parameters early in the design process.

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Latest News

January 25, 2012

Lufthansa CityLine ups Avro RJ efficiency with Pacelab CI OPS

Regional carrier Lufthansa CityLine has purchased additional licenses of cost index software Pacelab CI OPS in order to optimize the operational efficiency of its BAe Avro RJ85 aircraft. The software will supply variable speed tables for the climb, cruise and descent phases, which can be used to create cost index-optimized flight plans. Pacelab CI OPS is the brainchild of Lufthansa CityLine and Berlin software provider PACE. When run on Electron...

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May 19, 2011

AFI KLM E&M and PACE deliver onboard performance tool to French AWACS squadron

MRO company Air France Industries and KLM Engineering & Maintenance and engineering software provider PACE have successfully completed the development and implementation of a custom flight performance tool for the French Air Force. The software will automate mission planning and performance calculation tasks for the four-strong fleet of E-3F Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. After initial training at the PACE offices in B...

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