Partnership Forged for AI-Designed Aerospace Systems

Sindan, an AI-driven advanced manufacturing company based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and LEAP 71, a computational engineering company headquartered in Dubai, India, announced a new partnership. The alliance aims to industrialize systems designed entirely by computational models and produced directly within an integrated digital manufacturing environment, the companies report.

By combining LEAP 71’s Noyron, a large computational engineering model, with Sindan’s AI-powered manufacturing infrastructure, the partnership closes the loop from autonomous engineering to advanced production. Under the collaboration agreement, the companies will jointly develop and manufacture air-breathing jet engines and space propulsion systems.

“Over the past two years, Sindan has established an advanced manufacturing ecosystem that brings together additive manufacturing, precision machining, and digital production capabilities," says Heyuan Huang, managing director and CEO of Sindan. "With more than 40 large-scale metal additive manufacturing systems, 300+ polymer manufacturing systems, advanced CNC machining, and Sindan Industrial Artificial Intelligence Capability, we can move directly from digital design to serial production.”

LEAP 71 has demonstrated its capabilities through the development and hot-fire testing of dozens of liquid-propellant rocket engines across multiple architectures. Generated autonomously by Noyron, these systems are brought to test within weeks, including liquid methane engines exceeding two tons (20 kN) of thrust. Noyron encodes first-principles physics, engineering logic, and manufacturing constraints into a deterministic model that directly generates manufacturable systems.

“Noyron compresses development timelines from years to weeks and allows systems to be generated directly from physics and requirements," says Josefine Lissner, CEO of LEAP 71. "Combined with Sindan’s ‘lights-out’ production, this enables a rapid path from specification to manufactured hardware.”

The partnership establishes a new paradigm for how complex machines are developed and produced. Computational engineering and AI-driven manufacturing replace iterative design cycles and fragmented production pipelines with a continuous, integrated path from concept to hardware. 

About Sindan 

Sindan is an Abu Dhabi–based AI-driven advanced manufacturing company. At the core of Sindan’s approach is an integrated digital production environment that combines advanced additive manufacturing, robotics, and industrial AI into a unified, end-to-end manufacturing platform.

About LEAP 71

LEAP 71, based in Dubai, UAE, works with customers worldwide to design advanced machinery in fields such as aerospace, electric mobility, robotics, and thermal systems. A pioneer in the field of Computational Engineering, LEAP 71 designs physical objects autonomously, without human intervention. At its core is Noyron, a Large Computational Engineering Model that encodes logic, physics, production methodologies, and real-world feedback into a coherent, deterministic system.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.