Product Lifecycle Management Solution Overview for Aerospace and Defense
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Product Lifecycle Management Solution Overview for Aerospace and Defense
Aerospace and defense manufacturers and suppliers can achieve these results with EDS Product Lifecycle Management Solution:
- Reduce costs and increase speed to market by integrating market intelligence and product development data.
- Reduce IT program costs by 25 percent through usage-based engineering services.
- Develop more products, more quickly, by increasing engineering productivity up to 15 percent.
- Cut product development cycles in half by using digital prototypes that can be shared and easily revised.
- Reduce manufacturing-related costs 30-60 percent by reducing the need for retooling.
- Boost engineering capacity and eliminate redundant parts by increasing component reuse by up to 75 percent.
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The Challenges
The product lifecycle has become as complex as your supply and service chains. Controlling program start-up costs while reducing start-up time, improving time to market and lowering total cost of ownership are ongoing challenges. Being able to share and reuse accurate, up-to-date product data and knowledge is more important than ever for aerospace and defense manufacturers.
How We Can Help
EDS provides everything from product lifecycle management-based consulting on best-practice process improvements to complex IT engineering applications. We work with you to develop a plan to match your business goals. And we can also help you implement and modernize the processes and supporting applications, integrate processes and information across your organization and supply chain, and fine-tune your product development environment. Our utility-based product lifecycle management option provides quick program start-up, training and basic engineering change-management processes. This enables you to meet product design schedules and potentially save more than 25 percent on program IT costs.
What You Can Achieve
Our solutions equip you to capture market opportunities and achieve measurable business results in these critical areas:
Increase your speed to market – Reducing the time between concept and product delivery is at the top of every aerospace and defense manufacturer's must-do list. And EDS clients are getting products to market faster. Five years ago, one manufacturer's concept-through-production cycle time was 48 months. Within three years, that dropped to 36 months. One year later, it was down to only 18 months. The goal is to reach a 12-month cycle time by the end of year five.
Reduce costs – Skyrocketing plant, program, and product start-up and development costs shouldn't impair your ability to compete or respond to opportunity. EDS solutions can make a difference. For example, our flexible utility model enabled a major aerospace and defense aircraft manufacturer to quickly ramp up its engineering systems for the heavy demands of a major military contract. A strategic software licensing solution and just-in-time software sharing enabled the company to scale up and down quickly while saving 25 percent of program IT costs. The turnkey solution mitigated risk, ensured system reliability and flexibility, and saved millions in IT spend by turning fixed costs into variable costs. Those costs are chargeable directly to the program and end customer in some defense contracts.
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