Siemens replacement. The new engine for the largest helicopter in the world will be designed in the Russian CAD

New PD-8V engine for heavy helicopters Mi-26, the largest and most lifting production helicopters in the world^[1], will be designed in Russian. CAD Compass-3D This was announced by the general director (United Engine Corporation UEC) Vadim Badekha at a meeting with the chairman, governments Mikhail Mishustin who at the end of August 2023 visited the enterprise of aviation and space engine building "" in UEC Kuznetsov To Samara^[2] of the^[3]the first statement from senior UEC officials about plans to develop an engine from scratch in a Russian system of this class.

UEC-Kuznetsov is a leading enterprise in Russia for the development, production, repair and service of gas turbine and rocket engines. The company is creating a PD-8V engine, the power and energy efficiency of which are superior to their counterparts, as the developers say.

1982 Mi-26 records for lifting cargo to different heights have not yet been broken "(photo: Patriot Park)"

Recently, a new center for design development and scientific research was opened at UEC-Kuznetsov. Equipped with advanced technology and modern IT infrastructure, OKB is developing promising power plants for aviation, space and power. It organized 500 high-tech jobs for design engineers and technical service workers.

The center has engineering and design systems, as well as its own data storage and processing systems. And it was decided on the basis of this center to develop a new PD-8V engine - the largest^[4] engine^[5] for domestic heavy helicopters based on the PD-8 gas generator.

The general director of the UEC at a meeting with Mishustin in August 2023 noted that the implementation of all the tasks set is impossible without modern software in the field of design, product life cycle management, production management. According to him, UEC is actively conducting an import substitution program, including in the field of PDM/PLM systems, engineering analysis systems and calculations.

Here we work with Logos. "Logos" - well done, we are satisfied with their decision, we are already actively applying today. If we talk about PLM/PDM, today engine units are PD-35 already being designed in Compass. And the PD-8V engine will be designed in Compass from scratch, - Vadim Badekha told Mikhail Mishustin.

Within the framework of industrial competence centers in the UEC, two projects are being implemented with state support for the creation of CAD/CAM/PDM and ERP systems. And thanks to state support, more than 450 jobs are equipped with Compass software, which is developing all the newly created elements of preparation and equipment for production.

In the field of product design and lifecycle management, UEC mainly imports software Siemens - its long-time partner, now, obviously, former. In 2013, the UEC entered into a corporate agreement with Siemens announced a long-term strategic partnership. According to its conditions, the PLM solution from Siemens was to be used at all UEC enterprises as a single standard for computer-aided design and life cycle management of created products.

The parties then agreed on the unification of approaches to the use of software, which at that time they saw as "a key element for increasing the management and production mobility of UEC enterprises."

Earlier, in March 2022, the Rybinsk enterprise "UEC-Saturn" (also part of the UEC) began to introduce the Russian CAD "Compass-3D" as part of the import substitution of engineering software^[6]. This coincided with the moment when on the eve of President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On measures to ensure the technological independence and security of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation" and decided to stop state customers from March 31 purchases of foreign software used at critical infrastructure facilities.

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