Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney Accelerates Engine Design
Overview
- Needed the flexibility to explore design alternatives before building a product prototype, in order to reduce the exorbitant costs of physical testing
Challenges
- Reduce production costs and speed time to market
- Monitor and manage compute resources more effectively to extract more compute power
Solution
Results
- Cut engineering time in half
- Reduced development costs by almost 60%
- Can now execute thousands of additional analysis jobs that increase the reliability of its products and maximize fuel efficiency.
“We could not achieve our current production scale without Platform software. It enabled us to dramatically cut both our production time and costs – two elements that we not only factor in, but depend on.”
Pete Bradley, Associate Fellow for High Intensity Computing
“At Pratt & Whitney, we have achieved dramatic savings in engine design costs and significant improvement in product efficiency. For example, development time of a high-pressure compressor was cut in half, resulting in a $17M reduction in development costs (56% lower than previous costs) and a 2% increase in compressor efficiency. This new compressor is expected to save over one billion dollars in fuel compared to the current compressor.”
Dan Minior, Manager of Aerodynamic and Mechanical Integrity
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