Aerospace & Defense
Product and program development in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry requires collaboration among partners, suppliers, customers and multi-disciplined teams around the world. The products and programs themselves are often very complex and there are challenging dynamics related to multi-year development cycles.
Key Challenges
- Long, inefficient product and program development cycles
- The need to integrate new technologies into products and programs and involve multiple suppliers, partners and customers throughout the process
- Security challenges when sharing data with hosted functional suppliers, contractors, partners and customers
- Compliance with strict government and industry requirements, and regulatory mandates
Ways to Overcome Challenges
- Create a centralized product data model that tracks and integrates software, hardware, electronics and mechanical parts, improving visibility across long planning cycles while eliminating waste and rework
- Establish traceability between programs and product documentation, from the original concept to services and repairs, reducing lifecycle management costs
- Build a secure infrastructure plan which accounts for ITAR, EAR and other important government regulations
- Integrate customers, suppliers and partners early in your product and program development process to improve collaboration and minimize errors
- Integrate customers into your Program and Contract Management processes
How We Can Help
- Establish common frameworks and efficient methods that can improve the predictability and effectiveness of aircraft design and manufacturing
- Define process controls and implement program management frameworks to ensure that you meet cost, time and quality targets
- Develop knowledge management databases to improve the visibility and traceability of product plans, from the proposal phase through customer service and repair
- Implement program management and product development processes that seamlessly integrate customers and suppliers into your PLM systems and processes
- Create security identification, verification and validation processes to meet ITAR and EAR restrictions when sharing information with your supply chain
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