Case Study: Dufour Aerospace accelerates critical cargo drone delivery with Arena Solutions

Dufour Aerospace Accelerates Critical Cargo Drone Delivery with PTC’s Onshape and Arena

Dufour Aerospace, a Swiss aerospace startup developing long-range hybrid-electric cargo drones, faced growing complexity as it moved from manual, disconnected design processes to a more mature engineering organization. To keep software, hardware, and certification work aligned, the company needed a modern way to manage design data, part numbers, and releases, and it chose Arena Solutions’ PLM alongside PTC’s Onshape CAD+PDM.

Arena Solutions helped Dufour Aerospace create a cloud-native digital foundation for product development, improving collaboration between engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers. The results included about $100,000 in annual savings, up to 8 hours saved per part release, and a 50% reduction in design data requests from manufacturing teams, while also enabling faster iteration and lower-cost drone development.

Dufour Aerospace

Manuel Flepp

Head of Structures