Aerospace & Defense
The Challenge
Increased global competition. A shifting economic climate. Mergers and acquisitions. Resources dispersed globally. Increased reliance on suppliers to increase quality while reducing costs and share risks. Aerospace and defense industry manufacturers worldwide need to gain control of costs, shorten time to market and increase productivity across the entire supply chain. To remain competitive, aerospace and defense manufacturers must deliver innovative products quickly that last longer without increasing total cost of ownership. The traditional linear design process is inadequate. To succeed you must dramatically change the way you operate.
The Answer
What does it take to survive in this highly competitive environment?
- Enhance collaboration inside and outside the company
- Increase speed to market for new products at lower costs
- Reduce product life cycles and plant start-up times
- Create and extend services provided on products
- Expand and leverage knowledge database and your ability to access retained data
- Better connection and automation of design and testing tools to ensure a smoother production process
- Sustainability through gaining asset visibility from the manufacturer and the asset operator
- Outsourcing noncore competencies so suppliers can contribute more to quality and cost savings
You need to take advantage of the following solutions to achieve your business goals:
Product Life Cycle Management
You can maximize people, technology and processes across your extended supply chain to manage design, production and aftermarket service. And you can improve product quality, increase speed to market and reduce costs with tools for:
- Change and configuration management
- Digitalization
- Technical writing
- Visualization
Digital Manufacturing Operations
Improve your ability to manufacture your product designs by creating a virtual version of your factory online to simulate the manufacturing process and visualize problems before you release a product design for assembly
Aftermarket services
Reduce costs and create new revenue streams from aftermarket operations as you enhance quality and service, improve productivity and cut turnaround time and inventory costs. You'll also capture new revenues by completing service contracts and renewals on a timely and profitable basis
You need an ally with deep industry insight and technical innovation to deliver high-value business transformation expertise and IT services, solutions and strategies. That's what you'll find when you partner with EDS. Serving more than 220 manufacturing clients in more than 40 countries in every industry sector including aerospace and defense, we help companies in the government defense industry and airlines across the world get innovative products to market faster, manage eroding margins and connect with their customers effectively. We deliver tangible business results with a wide range of services that include:
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The Results
With EDS' help, aerospace and defense companies can quickly reduce product life cycle spend and project start-up costs, move products and services to market faster, focus on innovation and collaborate to be more competitive. We can transform your organization and help you embrace new opportunities by:
- Accelerating time to market while reducing risk
- Eliminating redundant parts and reduce inventory by 5 percent to save top-line expense
- Reducing R&D spending through engineering productivity
- Increasing the number of new products by 50 percent
You can also:
- Save 15 percent to 30 percent on IT and engineering costs
- Lower your overall IT operational expense on an ongoing basis
- Reduce product introduction costs by 35 percent to 50 percent
- Reduce capital asset requirements by 10 percent
- Save 10 percent to 15 percent on procurement
- Increase your revenues from new technologies and services by 10 percent to 20 percent
Here are some examples of what we have done for other aerospace and defense companies and what we can do for you:
- Cut product development time almost in half
- Reduced product development time by six months
- Cut engineering system costs by approximately $15 million
- Increase new product development by 50 percent
Choose a partner with industry insight, relationships and IT knowledge for aerospace and defense that can help you improve your business performance so you can respond faster to changing market dynamics, realize improved economics and increase your ability to compete effectively. Choose EDS.
- Read our Aerospace & Defense case studies
- Download the Aerospace & Defense Overview PDF, 266K
- Download the Aerospace Fact Sheet PDF, 65K
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Manufacturing Industry
Behind the success of manufacturing companies around the world is an ally, EDS. Helping them achieve collaborative engineering and overcome challenges such as supply chain optimization and manufacturing agility, EDS keeps production lines moving.