Aerospace, Space & Defense
Industry Challenges
Aerospace, Space & Defense leaders are facing an increasingly competitive global market where an emphasis must be placed on improving efficiency, reducing design and build times, and fully utilizing modern lean manufacturing techniques. Companies need to be able to better control their component supply chains, ensure product traceability and reduce waste in order to minimize time-to-market, facilitate change management, grow profitability and comply with government regulations. If that sounds like a tall order, that’s because it is. The Engineering Group’s experience in Digital Defense, Aerospace and Homeland Security expands beyond just what first comes to mind – cybersecurity, services and servers. Our Industries eXcellence division also has digital extensive expertise in the Aerospace, Space & Defense sector, but in this case, from the product design, manufacturing and supply chain management perspectives.
Our Industry Solutions
1. Product Design Automation
Our design automation practice is dedicated to helping aerospace companies implement digitalized product design and engineering solutions that automate these processes, optimize designs and eliminate manufacturing issues. Product design automation significantly improves cycle times, quality and overall costs by eliminating manual and error-prone engineering work. Product simulation automation helps find the optimal design quickly by running thousands of design iterations in minutes. Our automated test correlation solutions reduce physical product testing efforts by using a digital copy of a physical model instead.
- Model-Based Product Definition
- Product Design Automation
- Product Engineering Services
- Product Simulation & Analysis Automation (Structural, Thermal, CFD, Battery Chemistry, etc.)
- Product Configuration Management
2. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Managing large amounts of data is a huge task in the manufacturing industry, and nowhere is this truer than in aerospace and defense, where products are complex and require high levels of precision and documentation. Furthermore, keeping this data up-to-date as well as making sure that data is controlled and accessible between different departments (between engineering and manufacturing, for example) across the enterprise is a big challenge. Our global team delivers holistic Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to create a single digital source of truth across the product and process lifecycles. Our solutions enable teams and individuals to create, organize, manage and consolidate information effectively for secure and efficient product development.
- Engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM) Management
- Manufacturing Bill of Materials (mBOM) Management
- Manufacturing Bill of Process (BOP) Management
- Product & Quality Data Management
- Engineering Change Management
3. Digital Supply Chain (Tracking & Tracing)
The specialized supply chains of the aerospace sector are complex because they rely on thousands of suppliers for materials, components and specialized finishing services. When combined with the increasing regulatory, traceability and cybersecurity requirements with which aerospace and defense companies must comply, it is more important than ever for them to adopt solutions that provide real-time visibility across their entire supply chain. Our Digital Supply Chain (Tracking & Tracing) solutions deliver product serialization and traceability capabilities that ensure product traceability from raw materials to end use.
- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Product Serialization Management
- Digital Product Tracking & Tracing
- Warehouse & Transportation Management Systems
- Regulatory Compliance & Reporting
4. Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
When it comes to technology, aerospace and defense leaders responsible for producing complex aircraft and vessels in a cost-efficient way are looking to improve how quickly they can design and manufacture their products. Our expertise in the entire spectrum of technologies for digital manufacturing enables us to deliver these industry-specific solutions and system integration services that help them achieve these goals and meet strict regulatory requirements at the same time. Our team drives digital transformation from the manufacturing side. We also deliver and integrate systems that manage the data and the execution of products being fabricated, including Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Asset Performance Management (APM)
- Manufacturing Quality & Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Factory Automation & Control
5. Simulation & Decision Science
Simulation modeling in a virtual environment enables aerospace and defense enterprises to study, verify and optimize the behavior of their business processes, manufacturing operations and supply chain processes before they are deployed in the real world. Since commissioning of new products, facilities, lines and processes is costly and capital-intensive, utilizing simulation can yield enormous benefits. While our Digital Twin solutions can help aerospace companies streamline processes and improve business performance, simulation alone is not always enough when the problems manufacturers face are highly complex, have high variability and involve volumes of data that cannot be processed analytically by the human mind. In these cases, we apply AI and Machine Learning methodologies to deliver solutions that drive intelligent automation and decision-making for our customers.
- Site/Plant/Warehouse Layout Design & Improvement
- Manufacturing/Assembly/Process Design & Improvement
- Supply Chain, Resilience & Risk Assessment Studies
- Lean Manufacturing Initiatives
- Energy Optimization Studies
- Artificial Intelligence & Simulation Modeling Applications
Engineering’s Advantage
Most Aerospace, Space & Defense manufacturers do not have the internal knowledge, technical expertise and resources necessary to navigate and understand all the complexities of digital transformation alone. They must look towards a strategic partnership with an expert that can help them assess their current systems and processes, identify gaps and priorities, source and implement the right solutions, and support the digitalization process from start to finish. With over 10 years of experience implementing Industry 4.0 solutions for manufacturers, Engineering Industries eXcellence has established a depth of expertise and understanding of industry-specific challenges, standards and solutions that Aerospace, Space & Defense companies could not find at any other company in the world.
Interested in speaking to one of our Aerospace, Space & Defense experts? Contact us at info@indx.com.
