Business Requirements

The Aerospace and Defense Industry requires the collaboration of large teams to design and produce very complex products or systems. The development cycle can often be many years, and the service cycle can be 30 to 50 years. Increasing prime contractors and sharing more and more of both the design and engineering work with their partners and suppliers.

More Innovation

Accelerate top-line growth by increasing yield on product and process innovation. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• How can you improve your Innovation Success Rate?
• How can you reduce your Innovation Process Cycle?
• Who are the Innovation Leaders in Aerospace and Defense?

Faster to Market

Reduce your time-to-market through lean processes, a higher yield on designs and faster cycle times. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• How can you tightly integrate all disciplines?
• How can you reduce the re-design cycle time?
• How can you ensure compliance with requirements?
• How can you capture and re-use prior designs?

Compliance

Ensure compliance by incorporating customer and regulatory requirements into your product lifecycle. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• How do you ensure configuration management compliance?
• How do you protect Intellectual Property and ensure ITAR compliance?
• How do you link diverse environments into an efficient, virtual enterprise?

Resource Optimization

Optimize your resources through digital product and process validation. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• How can you reduce design cycle time?
• How can you avoid costly mockups?
• How can you integrate a global supply chain?
• How can you optimize the factory layout?

Globalization

Leverage globalization through real-time collaboration. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• How do you ensure current, comprehensive and synchronized knowledge sharing across the lifecycle?
• What are the critical elements of an effective knowledge management system?
• How can you share lessons-learned from one program to the next?

Solutions

Today’s most forward-thinking aerospace and defense companies are building global innovation networks that enable them to continuously improve their products and processes – and organize their value chains so that innovation can flourish. By uniting distributed value chains at every level, global innovation networks enable enterprises to “design anywhere, build anywhere and support anywhere.”

Digital Manufacturing

Aerospace and Defense OEMs currently rely on their partnerships and their global network of suppliers to design, produce and service or support their products and services. No longer do members of a design team reside in a single location; rather it is a global virtual team sharing ideas and best practices. Concurrently many OEMs are shifting increasingly more substantive manufacturing work to their value chain, making this a critical success factor in the industry.

Service and Sustainment

Historically the logistics data has been created and managed in a range of specialized niche solutions. Interactions between solutions are usually done manually by highly skilled organizations. This system has worked for many years. However, it does not effectively manage change. Data is manipulated and delivered as a “snapshot” and an industry shift to use and deliver “real data” in an integrated fashion is required.

Systems Engineering

The future for Aerospace and Defense OEMs depends on successful launches of new, innovative products. Requirements definition and management is a critical phase in product development. This requires that OEMs define requirements by using the guiding principles of systems engineering to ensure that an integrated approach to requirements management is performed throughout the entire product lifecycle.