Aerospace and Defense...
Advancing the aerospace and defense industry
Today’s aerospace and defense leaders must work harder and faster than ever to meet the increasing demands of their missions, constituents, and markets. Evolving strategic priorities, a resurgence in defense spending, an emerging space race, and volatility in the global landscape amplify the challenge.
As the leader in preparing aerospace and defense organizations for the convergence of the physical and digital worlds, PTC enables actionable intelligence to optimally design, manufacture, and sustain warfighter and industrial systems. We’re here to help drive digital transformation—and tomorrow’s product innovations—today.
Aerospace and defense industry sector business challenges
Airframes
Digitalization in aerospace has grown to a $2 billion business, impacting every facet of the industry. OEMs, suppliers, and third parties are investing to stay competitive.
Space Systems
The global space industry will be nearly a $0.5 trillion market by 2022. PTC has the system-wide insight, proven technology, and best practices to help the space systems sector lower risk while innovating.
Ground Vehicles
The market for military ground vehicles is expected to hit $522 billion by 2022. See how PTC’s system-wide insight, best practices, and best practices can help the ground vehicles sector innovate while lowering risks.
Naval Systems
While the U.S. Navy is not anticipating many new program starts, there is an emphasis to modernize and drive efficiency to ensure combat systems can be leveraged strategically.
Strategic objectives and business goals for aerospace and defense
Digital transformation in the aerospace and defense industry has been underway for years, and COVID-19 is accelerating the trend. As aerospace and defense leaders look to deliver program excellence, improve equipment readiness, accelerate product development, and reduce costs across the value chain, digital solutions from PTC have unlocked opportunities for efficiency, productivity, and innovation.
Learn more about the outcomes we help our customers achieve below.
Instill Program Excellence
Create an environment that emphasizes access to data over ownership to gain knowledge and insights. With PTC’s PLM solutions, you can Improve visibility and collaboration across teams and ask meaningful questions of prime and sub-contractors while driving efficiency.
Improve Equipment Readiness
Enhance uptime for naval assets, aircraft, and ground vehicles by improving field maintenance and service. With PTC’s augmented reality and spare parts management solutions, you can drive field service efficiency and reduce service costs.
Accelerate Product Development
Accelerate product development with product design optimization that improves efficiency along every step of a product’s lifecycle. See how with PTC’s solutions for generative design, simulation and analysis, and product lifecycle management.
Lower Costs
Improve efficiency and lower costs across the value chain, from increasing engineering productivity and saving design time, to reducing manufacturing costs, and optimizing field service with PTC solutions.
Meet the game-changers in aerospace and defense
Discover how your peers are using PTC solutions to capitalize on digital and physical convergence across the aerospace and defense sector in innovative ways.
Real-World Results
We didn’t only achieve this vision of design anywhere, build anywhere, support anywhere. We also had a high degree of business intelligence. If we can do this, so can you ... Windchill is now the single source of truth for everybody ... It’s about having one global PLM system, with hard savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars."
David B. Slader, Director, Enterprise PDM Raytheon
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