Aerospace & Defense

The Challenge

Achieving Sustainability in the Aerospace and Defense Marketplace

Aerospace and Defense Business Issue Overview

Manufacturers want to speed new products to market while reducing development costs. While solid product economics and satisfied customers are essential, with the average commercial airplane in use for more than 20 years, the industry needs to focus on developing products that sustain and extend the product’s life. The challenge for A&D manufacturers is to create products that last longer without increasing total cost of ownership.

Increased global competition. A shifting economic climate. Mergers and acquisitions. Resources dispersed globally. Increased reliance on suppliers to increase quality while reducing costs and share risks. Aerospace and defense industry manufacturers worldwide need to gain control of costs, shorten time to market and increase productivity across the entire supply chain. To remain competitive, aerospace and defense manufacturers must deliver innovative products quickly that last longer without increasing total cost of ownership. The traditional linear design process is inadequate. To succeed you must dramatically change the way you operate.

The Answer

What does it take to survive in this highly competitive environment?

Enhance collaboration inside and outside the company
Increase speed to market for new products at lower costs
Reduce product life cycles and plant start-up times
Create and extend services provided on products
Expand and leverage knowledge database and your ability to access retained data
Better connection and automation of design and testing tools to ensure a smoother production process
Sustainability through gaining asset visibility from the manufacturer and the asset operator
Outsourcing noncore competencies so suppliers can contribute more to quality and cost savings

You need to take advantage of the following solutions to achieve your business goals:

Product Life Cycle Management

You can maximize people, technology and processes across your extended supply chain to manage design, production and aftermarket service. And you can improve product quality, increase speed to market and reduce costs with tools for:

Change and configuration management
Digitalization
Technical writing
Visualization

Digital Manufacturing Operations

Improve your ability to manufacture your product designs by creating a virtual version of your factory online to simulate the manufacturing process and visualize problems before you release a product design for assembly

Aftermarket services

Reduce costs and create new revenue streams from aftermarket operations as you enhance quality and service, improve productivity and cut turnaround time and inventory costs. You'll also capture new revenues by completing service contracts and renewals on a timely and profitable basis

You need an ally with deep industry insight and technical innovation to deliver high-value business transformation expertise and IT services, solutions and strategies. That's what you'll find when you partner with HP. Serving more than 220 manufacturing clients in more than 40 countries in every industry sector including aerospace and defense, we help companies in the government defense industry and airlines across the world get innovative products to market faster, manage eroding margins and connect with their customers effectively. We deliver tangible business results with a wide range of services that include:

The Results

With the help of HP, aerospace and defense companies can quickly reduce product life cycle spend and project start-up costs, move products and services to market faster, focus on innovation and collaborate to be more competitive. We can transform your organization and help you embrace new opportunities by:

Accelerating time to market while reducing risk
Eliminating redundant parts and reduce inventory by 5 percent to save top-line expense
Reducing R&D spending through engineering productivity
Increasing the number of new products by 50 percent

You can also:

Save 15 percent to 30 percent on IT and engineering costs
Lower your overall IT operational expense on an ongoing basis
Reduce product introduction costs by 35 percent to 50 percent
Reduce capital asset requirements by 10 percent
Save 10 percent to 15 percent on procurement
Increase your revenues from new technologies and services by 10 percent to 20 percent

Here are some examples of what we have done for other aerospace and defense companies and what we can do for you:

Cut product development time almost in half
Reduced product development time by six months
Cut engineering system costs by approximately $15 million
Increase new product development by 50 percent

Choose a partner with industry insight, relationships and IT knowledge for aerospace and defense that can help you improve your business performance so you can respond faster to changing market dynamics, realize improved economics and increase your ability to compete effectively. Choose HP.