Propelling the aerospace and defense industry to new frontiers
From unmanned autonomous vehicles to new and replacement aircraft, the demand for innovative aerospace and defense (A&D) products is growing significantly—with no signs of slowing down.
To remain at the forefront of the competition and operate at the speed of relevance, A&D manufacturers need to ramp up production, increase the pace of innovation, and work and collaborate more efficiently throughout the extended enterprise.
At PTC, we’re helping leading A&D manufacturers tackle these challenges with a digital thread of actionable, interconnected product data. For decades, PTC has been helping customers manage some of the most strategic and highly secured systems in the world—from initial design and development to manufacturing, maintenance, service, and retirement.
Unmatched growth opportunities across sea, air, land, and space domains
Space systems
Naval systems
Ground vehicles
Airframes
How are leading aerospace and defense companies using PTC solutions to drive value?
Solutions for aerospace and defense
Speed up R&D
To achieve the rapid pace of innovation required for the industry to move faster, product development teams need to adopt agile processes that compress timelines and reduce costs. PTC’s portfolio of integrated digital engineering solutions enables a modular approach to product development and systems engineering, with OSLC connectivity between PTC tools, and with third-party tools.
Comply with standards, policies, and regulations
The increasing complexity of aerospace and defense systems is making it harder to ensure compliance with industry standards, policies, and regulations such as FAA, ISO, ITAR, DO178C, DO254, S1000D, and S3000L. PTC’s solutions enable product development teams to integrate compliance into the development process as early as possible with a centralized repository for requirements that enables traceability, visibility, management, and auditability on project artifacts.
Streamline collaboration
Efficient collaboration is mission critical for delivering outcomes that enable aerospace and defense leaders to win. With open architecture and OSLC connectivity, PTC solutions connect stakeholders across the extended enterprise to break down silos, streamline workflows, and ensure data continuity across departments, functions, and enterprise systems.
Manage product complexity and variability
Aerospace and defense products have become increasingly complex with high levels of variability and customization across software and hardware components. Model-based product development can help overcome these challenges by streamlining development processes, managing configurations and variants more effectively, and ensuring that real-time, standardized information is integrated across the entire product lifecycle.
Ramp up production
To burn down backlogs and meet the surging demand for next-gen defense systems, commercial aircraft, and the rapidly growing space sector, manufacturers need to ramp up production while reducing rework, nonconformities, and operating costs. Our PLM-centric approach to manufacturing streamlines the production process by connecting the production environment to the enterprise digital thread, so your teams can work concurrently to bring high-quality products to market faster.
Improve mission readiness
Mission readiness is based on the availability and effectiveness of equipment, personnel, logistics, training, and intelligence. PTC’s portfolio of service lifecycle management solutions helps aerospace and defense leaders improve asset and mission readiness by facilitating efficient maintenance processes, enabling digital collaboration, and optimizing logistics support, so mission critical equipment is available and operational when its needed.
Explore how PTC technologies are helping solve critical business challenges in the aerospace and defense sector and enabling our customers to advance at the speed of relevance.
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Solve your unique product development challenges with robust on-prem and innovative SaaS CAD solutions.
Product lifecycle management (PLM)
Orchestrate workflows, speed new capability insertion, innovate with product development, improve asset uptime and lower support costs with PLM for digital transformation.
Application lifecycle management (ALM)
Unify requirements, risk, and test management with agile engineering capabilities to accelerate delivery of high-quality software.
Service lifecycle management (SLM)
Optimize after-sales service operations to ensure mission readiness and peak performance for aerospace and defense assets. Grow your service business, maximize customer uptime, and maintain compliance with stringent industry standards through efficient lifecycle management.
Digital thread
Connect data, teams, and processes with a digital thread for traceability, better decisions, and unified product lifecycle collaboration.
Digital twin
Use real-time data and digital twins to boost performance, enable predictive maintenance, and speed decisions across mission-critical system lifecycles.