Deliver Aircraft Structures Faster with a Connected Digital Thread

Aircraft order backlogs are at historic highs, but production rates remain constrained by supply chain disruptions, quality issues, and workforce shortages. Clearing the backlog requires faster coordination, not just faster fabrication.

Manufacturers must demonstrate compliance through extensive analysis, testing, documentation, and traceability. Disconnected engineering data can increase certification efforts and prolong program timelines.

Aircraft structures must balance performance, weight, manufacturability, sustainability, and cost requirements. Engineering teams need better visibility across disciplines to manage large assemblies, interfaces, and dependencies.

Commercial aircraft programs depend on globally distributed supplier ecosystems. Manufacturers need secure collaboration, synchronized product data, and controlled change management to reduce delays, avoid rework, and maintain production continuity.

Aircraft delivery delays are forcing operators to extend fleet service lifecycles while increasing utilization rates. Manufacturers need better lifecycle visibility to support maintenance, configuration management, and long-term fleet performance.

Connect engineering and manufacturing so production teams work from current product definitions and engineering changes flow more efficiently into manufacturing planning, supplier coordination, and quality processes.

Maintain traceability across requirements, testing, verification, and compliance activities to improve certification readiness and reduce audit preparation effort.

Design, manage, and validate complex aircraft structures with connected CAD and PLM solutions. Enable engineering teams to develop large assemblies, advanced composites, and aircraft variants while maintaining configuration alignment across design and manufacturing.

Enable secure, multi-tier supplier collaboration without forcing any supplier onto a single platform. When a design changes, every affected supplier, assembly, and purchase order are identified and updated automatically, ensuring no contractor builds to an obsolete revision.

Enable continuity between engineering and service operations to support maintenance, reliability, and fleet performance. Maintain configuration-controlled lifecycle data from design through manufacturing and into decades of in-service operations.