Own the controlled weight baseline.
Manage BOMs, effectivity, maturity, allowances, growth, and weight risks, issues, and opportunities from one governed mass model.
Mass properties engineering platform
Control aircraft mass properties data from concept trades to certified fleet configurations.
MassMasterTM and MassMaster NexusTM apply Git-style configuration control to aircraft mass properties, turning CAD, Nastran / Abaqus FEM, PLM / ERP enterprise systems, measured, supplier, legacy, calcsheet, payload, and effectivity data into reviewable configuration history.
Distributed change control
Nastran / Abaqus FEM workflows
Reviewable baselines
Effectivity-aware outputs
The engineering reality
Mass properties source data does not live in one place.
Aircraft weight data is created by many teams and many systems. CAD contributes important geometry-based data, but it is only one source. Programs also depend on measured part and assembly weights, hardware records, supplier inputs, Nastran / Abaqus FEM models, PLM / ERP enterprise records, legacy databases, payload definitions, Excel calcsheets, and configuration-specific records.
MassMaster treats those inputs as controlled engineering source data, preserving traceability to origin, method, credibility, and configuration. Its value is not just where records are stored; it is the control model above the data: versioning, branch review, baselines, differencing, provenance, effectivity, and reproducibility.
CAD systems
PLM / ERP enterprise systems
Nastran / Abaqus FEM
Measured weights
Supplier data
Hardware records
Legacy databases
Payload definitions
Excel calcsheets
Decision velocity
One controlled mass model accelerates weight decisions across the program.
Close risks, issues, and opportunities faster, assure simulation inputs, run traceable trades, and keep dashboards current from the same governed source.
Use simulation-ready mass properties earlier.
Feed verified, traceable, effectivity-aware mass distributions into loads, dynamics, aeroelasticity, and simulation workflows.
Close weight decisions faster.
Track risks, issues, opportunities, trade impacts, configuration maturity, and margin status without manual roll-ups.
Govern mass properties as type-design data.
Support repository workflows, APIs, dashboards, simulation feeds, traceability, and legacy integration.
Foundation: mass properties managed as governed, effectivity-aware type-design data.
Platform split
One governed repository. One visual engineering workspace.
MassMasterTM
Available nowGoverned repository for aircraft mass properties data.
Manage extensible weight BOM data, custom dictionaries, effectivities, mass growth allowances, roll-up reports, distributed mass properties, baselines, and data validation checks.
Review MassMasterTM pageMassMaster NexusTM
Pilot / preview positioningThe Git-enabled 3D workspace for mass properties engineering.
Develop, review, and validate MassMasterTM data with entity trees, layers, FEM support, FE part development, STEP context, visual interrogation, branch comparison, and workgroup change management.
Review NexusTM pageHow it works
Inputs become governed source data, then credible engineering outputs.
CAD, Nastran / Abaqus FEM, PLM / ERP enterprise systems, measured, supplier, legacy, calcsheet, payload, and configuration data
Distributed repository, dictionaries, source records, credibility, effectivity, version history, branch, review, baseline, and merge
Weight BOMs, functional-code summaries, distributed mass properties, reports, Nexus, and simulation exports
Sample output to show during review
Weight BOM roll-up, functional-code distribution, credibility summary, or distributed mass-property export.
Pilot acceptance criteria
Validate migration, dictionary mapping, effectivity logic, report outputs, distributed mass workflows, and process fit against real program data.
Capability status discipline
Use available now, pilot/preview, and roadmap labels so technical buyers can trust the claims.
Why it matters
Move integrity upstream, where design decisions are still affordable.
MassMaster is strongest where traditional workflows become fragmented: early composite trades, structural dynamics mass models, derivative aircraft estimates, as-delivered configuration tracking, and migration from mature legacy databases.
Distributed change control
Branch, compare, review, baseline, merge, and restore mass-property changes without losing history.
Configuration-aware control
Events, dates, kits, options, and as-delivered aircraft states.
FEM-aware mass properties
Nastran support today, with Abaqus support planned as a future capability.
Credibility reporting
Source, function code, MGA, weight credibility, and vehicle component roll-ups.
Aircraft development breadth
Built for the variety of real aircraft development.
Adoption path
Pilot MassMasterTM against real program data.
Beyer Flight Sciences can support data migration, pilot project definition, process validation, reporting alignment, and adoption planning so teams can prove MassMasterTM before scaling it across an enterprise.