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Thought Leadership Interview - Decarbonisation - Rajkaran Singh, Dassault Systèmes
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Decarbonization in a literal sense is the reduction and elimination of CO2 emissions. And in in an industry sense, decarbonizing has become a very important theme for everything we do. Given the Paris Agreement challenges and the climate change that the world is facing at the moment, decarbonization has become synonymous with the efforts that the industry is making to reach carbon neutrality. And the reason it's so important is because there are many different aspects to decarbonization that we need to look at. There could be a reduction in CO2 emissions. We're looking at digitalization and new technologies. We're looking at new aviation concepts, and also we're looking at how we ourselves attached to systems can use our own technology and use old software to reduce our carbon footprint and become carbon neutral. And we've committed to the targets for 2040 as well. So digitalization affects every step of the decarbonization process. So let's look at the lifecycle of a complex aircraft or a vehicle. We go from engineering design concepts, prototypes through to physical testing, verification, validation, certification, simulation, manufacture three to in-service. And this encompasses many different people working in many different parts of the lifecycle. When we look at our 3D experience platform, the street Extreme platform provides the single source of truth to everyone working together on a particular complex product or system. By using the system, the engineer, the manufacturer, supply chain teams, our finance, procurement and all access to single source of truth. When we look at the Paris Agreement, we don't have much time to achieve some of those targets and we don't have the time to wait. This really requires thinking of rapid innovation, new technologies, new ways of collaboration to really bring those ideas to the surface and deliver some of these targets that we've set ourselves up to achieve. The path to net zero remains complex, ambiguous and uncertain. But the one thing that we are sure of is digitalization is the way to get there. When we look at what we do in our day to day lives and bringing this different parts of organization together, the 3D experience platform enables that. It enables engineers to work with the simulation and design team, to work with manufacturing team, who work with engineering, procurement, finance and bring the entire value chain together. The 3D expense platform also enables thinking of rapid technologies, new solutions, new tools, and how do we bring these to market quicker? Given the targets and the challenges we face, time is not a luxury that we have and what we are trying to do is shift left. We're trying to do the engineering validation certification earlier all in the lifecycle using digital tools, using virtual technology to be able to speed up the achievement of these results. So digitalization is truly roadmap agnostic. And regardless of the path that we take towards decarbonization, digitalization is going to be a key enabler to achieve our targets. The engineering design, manufacturing operations and the innovation in all of these areas is critical to accelerate the efforts of decarbonization, to bring the sustainable technologies to the surface and for the scalable adoption of these technologies across the lifecycle of the complex systems, complex products and systems of systems that we're currently facing in the industry. Digitalization is spurring innovation across the fuel energy mix, across new innovative designs for aircraft, and it's help us balancing the commercial viability and the technological feasibility to achieve a carbon neutral future. The virtual twin can provide a detailed expression of a product or the interaction of a system with its subsystems. When we are designing and manufacturing complex products or systems of systems, a virtual twin can help define the concept design. The engineering phase the manufacturing of that particular product also true to its sustainment, its operation, its maintenance and true to service and decommissioning. And all of this can be done virtually to create the the footprint of what this product will behave like throughout its lifecycle. And it also helps us design the what we would call a cradle to cradle solution or what we call the circular economy, because it helps plan what the end of life of this particular product would look like. We recently published two white papers, one with Accenture, that the research suggests that 80% of the environmental impact of a product lifecycle is decided in the early stages of the design and engineering. We've also published a recent white paper with AIDS and Roland Berger looking at how we could achieve decarbonization through digitalization and also exploring the concept of virtual twin experience by RSA systems and the impact of the journey of decarbonization throughout the lifecycle. And it was a really interesting research because we had the perspective from passive systems AIDS, and really measure around how the virtual twin experience can go from end to end, how the lifecycle can be mapped, how the engineers can collaborate together to understand the behavior, to simulate the characteristics of these products and how they would act in the real world. This also helps significantly reduce waste. It has an impact on the cost of the lifecycle of a product and it also helps accelerate innovation end to end or cradle to cradle, as we would call it.