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Dassault Aviation is an industrial group with numerous constituent parts, whose varied activities cover several areas of high technology. With 8500 people, the Dassault Aviation's primary vocation is the design, development, production, sale and maintenance of aircraft. The Research and Development employs nearly one quarter of the company's workforce. In 2004, the FALCON turnover represented 61 % of the overall turnover.

 

In total, Dassault Aviation has sold more than 1500 FALCON aircraft of all types over the last 40 years. 90 % have gone for export (2/3 of which to the USA). They represent 50 % of the top-of-the-range world market. Today the Dassault Aviation FALCON family in production comprises the FALCON 50, 900 and 2000 with various versions such as the EX (Extended range) and EASy (Enhanced Avionics System) versions. One FALCON takes-off or lands each minute around the world.

 

The FALCON family contributes enormously both to the reputation of European executive aircraft and to the European economy. It contributes to maintaining the industrial base of a European high technology sector. It is developed and produced in European co-operation with partners from Belgium (SABCA), Italy (ALENIA - PIAGGIO) and Greece (Hellenic Aircraft Industries).

 

In 2001, Dassault Aviation has launched a new Falcon jet - the Falcon 7X - with a new innovative wing design and a fly-by-wire flight system. Many European partners are involved in the development of this new business jet. The main ones are: Spain (CASA), Netherlands (STORK), Belgium (SONACA).

The Research and Development Department employs nearly one quarter of the company's workforce. Fundamental and pre-competitive research is usually carried out in close co-operation with universities, research institutes and over industrial partners via a wide international network.

 

Due to the large amount and diversity of corporate knowledge involved in the design of modern aircrafts, Dassault Aviation has realized recently that a significant increase in competitiveness could be achieved by taking advantage of innovative web technologies. The most recent evidence of this deep interest is the setting up of a virtual plateau for the collaborative design of the F7X aircraft that allowed all “distributed” partners to share and work on a common and synchronized definition of the aircraft all along the project lifecycle. In this spirit, projects are carried out by the research department in order to anticipate new methods and tools from the domain of knowledge engineering, and especially from the semantic web community.

 

 

Contacts:

 

Farid Cerbah - (email address)

 

Role in the project

 

In TAO Dassault will be an end user, responsible for the case study on transitioning business process applications. They will also provide requirements input to the methodology workpackage and participate actively in the exploitation activities, in their role of a large industrial end-user.

 

 

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