Accelerate Aerospace Engineering Collaboration With PTC Jetstream

Aerospace and defense programs depend on collaboration across engineering teams, suppliers, manufacturing organizations, technology partners, and customers. Yet while product data may be carefully managed in PLM and other enterprise systems, the collaboration surrounding that data often happens somewhere else.

Engineering files move through email, supplier feedback arrives through separate tools, and critical decisions are captured in meetings and messages. Teams can spend valuable time determining which information is current, what changed, and why a decision was made.

For complex A&D programs, these disconnects can slow engineering decisions, create unnecessary rework, and make it harder to maintain traceability across the extended enterprise.

PTC Jetstream is designed to help organizations close that gap, enabling faster collaboration across the extended enterprise while preserving the product context, traceability, and control required by complex, security-conscious programs.

Bring collaboration into the digital thread

Aerospace and defense organizations have invested heavily in systems that establish authoritative sources of product information. The challenge is extending that digital continuity to the conversations, reviews, and decisions that move programs forward.

PTC Jetstream provides secure collaboration rooms where internal teams and external partners can review product information, exchange feedback, and capture decisions while controlling who can access and contribute to that information.

This approach can support supplier design reviews, engineering collaboration, cross-functional approvals, and partner feedback without requiring every participant to work directly within the organization's core data management systems.

Keep engineering feedback connected to the product

Engineering teams need to understand the context behind feedback and decisions.

PTC Jetstream enables participants to review 3D CAD models and documents in a browser and provide feedback directly in context. Instead of separating the product from the conversation about it, teams can keep feedback and decisions connected to their engineering context.

Consider a supplier reviewing a critical aircraft component for manufacturability. Instead of downloading a CAD file, reviewing it separately, and returning comments through email, the supplier can review the relevant information within a controlled collaboration environment and provide feedback in context.

This helps preserve a clearer record of what was reviewed, what feedback was provided, and how engineering issues were resolved.

That traceability is particularly valuable in aerospace and defense, where a single engineering change can affect requirements, system configurations, verification activities, manufacturing plans, and program commitments.

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Connect external collaboration with authoritative product data

For organizations using Windchill, PTC Jetstream is designed to connect these collaborative activities with PLM.

Relevant product data and documents can be brought from Windchill into a Jetstream collaboration room, giving participants access to the information they need for a specific review or task. The resulting outcomes can then be connected back to Windchill.

This helps organizations balance two priorities that can otherwise conflict: maintaining a controlled system of record and enabling faster collaboration across a broader network of stakeholders.

For U.S. defense organizations, secure cloud collaboration also requires meeting rigorous federal cybersecurity requirements. PTC is currently working toward achieving FedRAMP Moderate certification for PTC Jetstream, with the goal of extending secure, cloud-native collaboration to organizations operating in regulated federal and defense environments.

Turn engineering collaboration into action with AI

PTC Jetstream is also designed to use AI to help teams make sense of the information generated through collaboration.

AI capabilities can help summarize activity, highlight important updates, and surface relevant feedback and decisions. PTC is also developing capabilities to analyze collaboration activity and help identify actions or changes that may be required.

For complex aerospace and defense programs involving large volumes of engineering feedback, AI can help teams identify what requires attention faster, reducing the manual effort required to turn reviews and discussions into action.

Strengthen collaboration across the extended enterprise

Closing the collaboration gap can improve execution across the development process:

• Accelerate engineering reviews and decisions by bringing stakeholders and relevant product information together.
• Improve supplier and partner collaboration through controlled access to the information required for specific activities.
• Strengthen traceability by keeping engineering feedback and decisions connected to product context.
• Extend the digital thread by connecting collaboration with authoritative product information.

As aerospace and defense organizations accelerate digital engineering, connecting product data alone is no longer enough. The people, feedback, and decisions that shape the product must become part of the digital thread as well.

PTC Jetstream helps bring product data, people, feedback, and decisions together so aerospace and defense organizations can collaborate more effectively across the extended enterprise and keep complex programs moving forward.