Belgian design optimization software company enabling multidisciplinary simulation workflows for aerospace, composites, and sustainable transport engineering.
Noesis Solutions is a Leuven-based software company specializing in process integration and design optimization (PIDO) tools for engineering simulation workflows. They provide software platforms that enable engineers to automate complex multidisciplinary design processes, optimize product architectures, and reduce development cycles — primarily in aerospace and transport sectors. Their core value lies in connecting disparate simulation tools into unified optimization pipelines, allowing large industrial teams to collaborate on design trade-offs efficiently. Their involvement in Clean Sky 2 and aircraft-focused consortia positions them as a trusted simulation optimization partner for European aerospace R&D.
AGILE focused on aircraft MDO for heterogeneous expert teams; GAM AIR 2018 and GAM-2020-AIR contributed to airframe design under Clean Sky; PHAROS addressed physical architecture optimization.
MATRIX (coordinated by Noesis) developed improved methods to analyze composite materials for aircraft structures, their only coordinator role indicating deep ownership of this topic.
Fortissimo 2 brought HPC infrastructure and cloud simulation services to manufacturing SMEs, extending their optimization tools to factory-of-the-future contexts.
Across AGILE, PHAROS, MATRIX, and both GAM AIR projects, Noesis consistently contributed simulation workflow integration and automated optimization capabilities.
GAM-2020-AIR keywords include eco-design and energy efficiency; RECYCLE (MSCA-RISE) involved environmental pollution research, signaling a broadening beyond pure aerospace.
In their early H2020 period (2014–2018), Noesis focused squarely on aircraft design optimization and HPC-enabled simulation for manufacturing, with large collaborative projects like AGILE and Fortissimo 2. From 2019 onward, their work shifted toward more specialized applications — composite materials for lightweight structures (MATRIX, which they coordinated), architecture-level optimization (PHAROS), and an unexpected move into environmental research through the MSCA-RISE program (RECYCLE). The recent keywords around eco-design, energy efficiency, and rotor-craft indicate a growing interest in sustainability-driven aerospace engineering.
Noesis is moving from general-purpose simulation optimization toward sustainability-oriented aerospace design, with growing capability in composite materials and eco-design — making them increasingly relevant for green aviation consortia.
Noesis operates overwhelmingly as a specialist partner (6 of 7 projects as participant), contributing their optimization software and methodology to larger consortia rather than leading them. Their single coordinator role in MATRIX suggests they step up to lead when the topic aligns tightly with their core product capability. With 157 unique consortium partners across 23 countries, they function as a widely connected technology provider — the kind of partner that integrates easily into diverse teams because their tools sit at the intersection of multiple engineering disciplines.
Noesis has built a broad European network spanning 157 unique partners across 23 countries, reflecting their role as a software tool provider that plugs into varied consortia. Their strongest connections are in aerospace (Clean Sky 2 community) and HPC/simulation ecosystems.
Noesis occupies a distinctive niche as a design optimization software company embedded in aerospace R&D consortia — they don't build aircraft, they make the tools that help others design them better and faster. Their PIDO expertise means they can bridge simulation disciplines that other partners handle in isolation, making them a natural integration layer in multidisciplinary projects. For consortium builders, they bring a rare combination: commercial software maturity with active research engagement, meaning project results can realistically transition into usable products.
