Agricultural Aircrafts

A world leader in agricultural aircrafts for agricultural spray operations.

A world leading client of exceptional aircraft lines needed assistance with diverse configuration over multiple agricultural aircrafts. The client’s aircrafts are used to help operations of all sizes control insects, weeds, and diseases that threaten crops and orchards through effective crop fertilization. In addition, its aircrafts are used for fire control, dispersing fire retardant chemicals and water to save lives and prevent the loss of property and forestry during wildfires.

Project Details

Client Challenge

The client needed assistance with the development of five different agricultural aircrafts with diverse configurations such as dual cockpit single control and dual cockpit dual control. Each part, sub-assembly and assemblies, required a certain number of ECNs, which needed to be reflected as individual configuration changes in the model history. Lastly, the client requested the illustrated parts catalog (IPC) connected to their EPDM and linked to its website.

Our Solution

Our nine member RGBSI engineering team developed the part models with assemblies comprising different configurations to reflect each ECN change in the individual agricultural aircrafts. Dependent on the configuration of each agricultural aircraft, the part models were installed into different aircraft assemblies, and we checked these assemblies into the IPC and EPDM.

Now, when changes are made to the client’s parts or assemblies, they are automatically updated and reflected in the IPC. In addition, the agricultural aircrafts’ IPC pages are convertible to PDF format and linked to a website.

Result

Our newly developed models and cataloging method helped our client reach vendors in a more efficient manner. The reflection of each ECN as different configurations in the model helped the client to track its design changes from 30-40 years ago. The complete CAD library and IPC with each agricultural aircraft design is available for our client’s vendors on the web. Thus, our client can now order the right parts that its agricultural aircraft assemblies require.