Customized dashboards in our solution provide aerospace and defense companies with greater visibility across the enterprise as well as a new level of traceability that reduces errors and prevents the late discovery of issues. Advanced analytics, made possible by combining Internet of Things (IoT) data from assets in the field (the “Physical Twin”) with engineering insight (the “Digital Twin”) improve product availability and performance.

Our solution allows companies to capture, keep up with, and deliver requirements to everyone involved in product development process so that right decisions result in right products.

One of the key challenges facing highly regulated industries such as aerospace and defense is difficulty in achieving program goals while navigating the global IP and export control (ITAR) regulatory environment. Another challenge is enabling global collaboration and innovation. In each case, a key requirement is for all parties – suppliers, partners, contractors, customers, subsidiaries, and joint ventures – to be able to share sensitive company and product data in a secure and collaborative environment.

Today’s aerospace and defense companies must deliver programs that meet all technical, regulatory and performance requirements at cost and on schedule, while also ensuring that design and manufacturing practices are documented and traceable. Our multi-disciplinary platform integrates requirements management, secure supplier collaboration and engineering management into a single repository for mechanical, electronic, software and simulation data to help you meet these challenges.

Given the number of companies involved in aerospace and defense programs, the multidisciplinary nature of projects, and the need for efficient information exchange, companies must be able to work with many different CAD formats. Our broad selection of data exchange tools supports vendor-neutral standard exchange formats, data translators, and CAD file conversion tools to accurately move data between systems.

As customers demand more sophisticated functionality, the increasing amount of software required to provide it presents unique challenges in the delivery of aerospace and defense systems. Challenges include producing code faster and with better quality, as well as compliance with all regulations to minimize risk and ensure safety. Our unified collaborative solution framework enables all software development processes to be managed in one place, accelerating development and minimizing risk.

Our integrated software applications for additive manufacturing help you reimagine products, retool manufacturing, and rethink business models for optimal performance at reduced cost.

Aerospace and defense (A&D) companies collaborate with multiple partners and suppliers to develop products and share both the risks and rewards. Yet, as product complexity and integration demands continue to balloon, reliance on third parties could introduce more troubles than it solves. However, with real-time visibility and communication in a secure, collaborative digitalized environment enabled by the Supplier Collaboration and Management digital thread, OEM-supplier partnerships can thrive.

Creating supporting technical documentation for aerospace and defense systems requires collaboration and input from many different companies and teams. Our solution brings the documentation process into the PLM environment, and allows documents to be easily tailored by market, language or product.

Aerospace and defense programs are becoming more complex and the need for greater program performance has never been so critical. To win business in today's highly competitive environment, companies must submit attractive bids that include the demonstrated ability to deliver on program targets, requirements and production schedules. Our solutions digitalize the manufacturing process so you can maximize productivity, increase profitability and execute more efficiently than your competition to drive business growth in today’s tough markets.

Tremendous advances in manufacturing technology and the move to Industry 4.0 are changing the way aerospace systems are made. This is creating challenges across the supply chain as companies look for ways to keep up with OEMs’ demands. Our solution enables manufacturing companies to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain, increasing their competitiveness by making manufacturing processes more agile, flexible and efficient.

Aerospace and defense companies face unprecedented competitive pressure as well as demanding customers seeking greater accountability in program performance. To compete successfully and achieve program excellence, they must make manufacturing a core part of the program development process. An integrated collaborative environment enables a model-driven process that extends from CAD/CAM to CNC machining and quality inspection, delivering a new level of productivity.

The future of the aerospace and defense industry is exciting. Next-generation aircraft – powered by advanced electronics, sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) – will differ significantly from what we are seeing today. Aerospace and defense electronics and avionics manufacturers must rely on digital technologies to deliver more sophisticated and reliable electronics at scale. Our solutions enable electronic manufacturers to cope with the demanding needs of the industry today.

Without the ability to optimize factory operations based on data obtained during manufacturing engineering, inefficiency can ripple throughout a company’s production systems. Our advanced software for factory layout and optimization lets you create 3D virtual models of production systems to ensure that factors such as line efficiency, line rate, manpower limitations, learning curve, clearance, energy, noise and safety are considered before starting production. Use our solution to digitalize the entire manufacturing process and achieve aerospace and defense program performance goals.

Production planning for long, medium and short-term scheduling is critical to the success of facilities and field operations. Planners must analyze complex situations, taking into account a range of constraints and business rules, then generate and evaluate multiple scenarios to react quickly and intelligently to change. Our production planning suite for aerospace and defense OEMs and suppliers can be tightly integrated with other enterprise systems to help increase the efficiency, accuracy, and agility of manufacturing operations.

Whether it’s a commercial program or a government contract, the challenge for aerospace and defense companies today is to deliver a product that meets all technical and performance requirements at cost and on schedule. Our quality management solution delivers the ability to improve quality and reduce costs along the entire product lifecycle (ideation, realization and utilization). It can be used as a comprehensive system, or with single modules or combinations of modules.

Aerospace and defense products are highly complex, must perform in extreme environments, must maintain the highest standards of safety and reliability, and typically have a very long lifecycle. Our in-service lifecycle management solution manages the physical equipment configuration to support maintenance through status characteristics and history of part removal/installation/inspection. Leveraging core PLM functions such as security, workflow, change, and document management, our approach aligns asset BOMs and knowledge with physical asset structures for improved service delivery.

Keeping equipment operational by minimizing maintenance-related downtime is critical in the aerospace and defense industry. By using product knowledge taken from design and simulation to determine service requirements, service plans and instructions can be developed, validated, and documented prior to equipment delivery. Our maintenance planning solution, which is based on allowable product configurations, analysis (RAM and FMEA) and simulation (product and service), lets you reduce the impact of service on aerospace products in the field.

Highly engineered aerospace and defense products with long useful lives are valuable to both the companies that buy them and the companies that service and support them. Getting the most from these products means maximizing their availability and reliability. Our solution enables service organizations to generate service work orders, schedule service events, assign service tasks, support technicians with information and task orders, and track to closure all service work required and performed.

Consistent program planning and execution excellence are essential to winning new business. Our solution provides a systems approach to program planning and execution by integrating cost, schedule and technical requirements in a fully planned, resourced and budgeted program management system. The solution is easy to maintain and scalable to commercial and government programs of any size. Improve your ability to execute on cost and schedule by using an integrated system that manages all program artifacts.

Complex aerospace and defense industry products are produced using a global supply chain, with each company creating and consuming product data in a variety of formats. The resulting lack of interoperability hinders collaboration and reuse, which in turn impacts the ability to deliver on cost and schedule. Our model-based product definition solution enables the production of a complete digital product definition within a 3D model that functions as a single source of truth for all applications.

Today’s aerospace and defense programs must deliver products that meet all technical and performance requirements at cost and on schedule while often utilizing globally distributed suppliers and partners. These suppliers and partners might be using a diverse set of engineering applications. Our solution provides digital mockup and visualization of multi-CAD assemblies so that everyone can access and collaborate with design and process data to make informed decisions.

Aerospace and defense companies face increased product complexity, greater customization, and competitive disruption on a global basis. These challenges cannot be addressed by document-based and other inefficient methods still employed by many companies. It is imperative that companies conform to agile engineering and design thinking and processes. Our open multi-discipline, scalable and standards-based solution provides all the necessary tools for agile aerospace product development.

Aerospace and defense companies are being asked to reduce the support and operating cost of their products. Given the long lifespans of these products, maintenance is a big contributor to their overall cost and as a result, improving reliability and minimizing maintenance-related downtime have become critical. By using product knowledge taken from design and simulation, our service planning and management solution makes it possible to develop, validate, and document service requirements and service plans prior to equipment delivery.

The electrical model-based development environment (MBE) provides the ability to quickly and accurately analyze the configuration controlled, electrical digital twin for compliance.

Our E/E systems development solutions provide a model-based approach, employing digital data continuity, spanning the full electrical value chain: from the definition of a platform's electrical system, through its design, certification and manufacture, and beyond to support its utilization life cycle.

Orchestrate your technical program by using modeling to define product architecture and requirements, explore design space, test virtually, design interfaces from the product architecture, manage integrations and finally verify the product fulfills the requirements.

Airworthiness is everything in aerospace and defense. It touches all aspects of aircraft development, everywhere in the supply chain. From type certification to production certification and continued airworthiness, future success depends on a digital approach to reducing challenges and uncertainty.

Maximize the chances of getting to market faster with a well-designed, certifiable aircraft. When you incorporate certification requirements into your plans from the beginning, airworthiness certification and compliance requirements are efficiently understood, distributed and verified during every step of development within all functional areas.

Whether pioneering new propulsion systems or entering the urban air mobility market, aerospace companies must become more innovative to take these new products to market within budget and faster than the competition.