How Virtual Prototyping Propels Aerospace Innovation to New Heights

Virtual prototyping is transforming aerospace manufacturing. This whitepaper explores how Keysight CAE helps aviation innovators accelerate program launches, increase efficiency, and meet sustainability goals by shifting from isolated simulations to fully digital development—reducing scrap, emissions, and risk while enabling cleaner, safer, more resilient operations.

How Virtual Prototyping Accelerates Vehicle Development

Sustainability is reshaping automotive development. This whitepaper explores how Keysight CAE enables automakers to achieve “Mission Zero” through 100% Virtual Prototyping—reducing physical tests, emissions, time, and cost while improving safety, agility, and human-centered design in a fully digital vehicle lifecycle.

The Unified Frontier of Vehicle Safety Engineering

As CAE digitalization reshapes vehicle safety, engineers across ground, air, and space domains can benefit from shared insight. This whitepaper explores cross-industry learning and the ROI of virtual testing and simulation for developing safer, more reliable, and cost-effective vehicles.

Enhance Safety with Co-Simulation for Pre-Crash Scenarios

Discover how virtual homologation is advancing with combined system simulation and FEA to realistically model pre‑crash scenarios, including automated braking and steering with ABS during impact.

Sand Casting Process Validation

Sand casting often struggles with accuracy and defects, but Keysight Casting (ProCAST) improves quality by enabling quick castability checks, early solidification analysis, and full validation of filling, feeding, and microstructure during product design.

Improving comfort on bumpy tracks with Virtual Proving Ground

Virtual Proving Ground enhances heavy‑vehicle design by simulating rough terrain to optimize configurations, track vibration paths from ground to driver, and improve comfort and durability through system‑level simulation.

Virtually test construction machinery | Validating machine-environment-interactions in SimulationX

The Bauen 4.0 project developed a digital 5G construction test site where automated, connected machines interact intelligently with their environment, demonstrated through the coupling of SimulationX with Unity to simulate real‑time terrain, obstacles, and sensor‑driven machine responses.

VA_ONE Vibroacoustics

VA One empowers spacecraft and launch vehicle developers with advanced vibro‑acoustic simulation to analyze vibration, acoustic loads, stress, strain, and structural integrity from component level to full systems, delivering fast, accurate insights that streamline development and ensure mission success.

Demo: Cabin Comfort in Mobile Machinery with MBSE

Wheel loaders, as substantial machines, expose operators to prolonged hours in the field, leading to heightened stress, fatigue, and discomfort. To address these challenges, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are actively integrating digital solutions.

Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) for EV

Electric vehicles are quiet, creating risks for pedestrians and cyclists, making Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems essential for safety. Keysight’s vibro‑acoustic solutions support the design and analysis of AVAS systems, ensuring EVs produce effective warning sounds for safer roads.

FAR uses ProCAST to select the right Die Casting Machine and improves production rate and margins

FAR, a leading Italian foundry, boosted automotive oil‑pump production by partnering with ECOTRE and Keysight, using ProCAST’s Die Casting Machine Virtualization to select an optimal Colosio machine and achieve an estimated €165k annual cost saving.

Key benefits to Human Centric Real Time, Process / People & Product Validation

The video highlights how Keysight’s virtual prototyping lets aerospace OEMs make earlier, better decisions by enabling full‑scale, real‑time interaction to validate design, assembly processes, and ergonomic factors beyond what traditional PLM tools offer.

Eliminate physical prototypes for three common multi-material vehicle assemblies

Learn how auto OEMs can design safer, longer‑range electric vehicles by identifying the optimal mix of lightweight materials and manufacturing processes. Discover a single solution that helps reduce cost, save time, and eliminate late‑stage design changes.

Designing a Quiet eVTOL aircraft

eVTOL aircraft rely on system‑based verification to optimize drivetrain sizing, flight controls, battery performance, safety, and cooling, while vibro‑acoustic analysis ensures compliant exterior noise and comfortable cabin levels.

Virtual Proving Ground: Boost ride quality, safety aspects & longevity

Virtual prototyping enables early, informed design decisions for mobile and heavy machinery by simulating diverse terrains and extreme conditions, helping manufacturers improve operator safety, comfort, durability, and overall system performance from the start.

Stamping Process Validation for Line & Transfer Die

As automotive materials become lighter and stronger, stamping challenges like springback, cosmetic quality, and aluminum panel rupture increase; Keysight’s PAM‑STAMP solution helps identify issues early and validate countermeasures, improving part quality and reducing physical try‑out time and costs.

Virtual Prototyping for real world engineering challenges

Virtual Prototyping for real world engineering challenges.

Use SimulationX to predict range and optimize batteries of electric vehicles

The video introduces system‑level challenges and shows how SimulationX models mechanical, electrical, and thermal aspects of powertrains, enabling optimized design and predictive drive‑mode strategies (ECO, Comfort, Sport) that account for factors like temperature, slope, battery aging, and driver behavior.

Engineering to Production Powered by Hybrid Twins

Keysight empowers industry leaders with advanced virtual prototyping and digital simulation technologies, accelerating their Mission Zero sustainability goals through smarter, more efficient product development.

The Digital Transformation of the Industry is Going Beyond Virtual Testing

Emmanuel Leroy presents Keysight’s vision at Big Compute 2022, highlighting how predictive, real‑time, and immersive technologies are advancing digital transformation beyond virtual testing to support cleaner, safer, and more productive industry outcomes.