FAA certification is a monumental milestone for emerging aircraft manufacturers—and a major product data challenge. At BETA Technologies, the team developing electric vertical aircraft needed a way to deliver detailed, cert-ready engineering packages to the FAA and a diverse, fast-moving supply chain—without requiring recipients to procure expensive CAD tools or interpret proprietary file formats.

In this session, Jesse Cannon (Configuration Management Engineering) and Rick Florence (Configuration Manager – Aircraft Certification) share how BETA tackled this challenge:

Attendees will gain insight into:

• Why CAD-neutral, visually rich 3D TDPs are essential to FAA type certification

• The complex publishing challenges posed by 3DEXPERIENCE and MBD data quality

• How BETA overcame these hurdles to produce accurate, scalable data packages that meet certification and collaboration needs

“We’re setting a higher bar—one that moves us forward with a scalable, future-ready approach,” said Florence. Cannon adds, “If we can’t produce the TDPs, we can’t conform the aircraft, and we’re dead in the water.”

This session offers a real-world perspective on bridging the gap between product definition and regulatory compliance with scalable 3D publishing and data collaboration tools. It’s a must-attend for teams working to modernize compliance, supplier engagement, and engineering data exchange that helps everyone move at the speed of a startup.