The Aerospace and Defense industry faces several significant challenges, including longer time-to-market, widening skill gaps, an increasing need for digitization, and pressure to reduce the costs of complex components. A key factor contributing to delays in product delivery is the late identification of manufacturing and quality issues. Additionally, the introduction of new production technologies and the growing variety of product variants add further complexities to the development of aerospace and defense products. These challenges not only strain a company’s financial performance but also impact its reputation for consistently meeting deadlines.
DFMPro offers a Design for Manufacturability (DFM) solution specifically tailored to support defense and aerospace OEMs and suppliers. By providing a process-driven approach, DFMPro enables teams to shift key product and manufacturing decisions to earlier stages in the lifecycle, allowing for the validation of manufacturing feasibility during the design phase itself.
Key Market Challenges
Solutions
Digital Transformation Drive and Demand for Faster R&D
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Cost Overruns and Poor Program Performance
Late discovery of manufacturing and quality issues leads to high manufacturing cost and delays in programs.
Model Based Definition(MBD) for Cost Reduction and Improving Timelines
MBD accelerates time-to-market and lowers costs by simplifying design adjustments and removing the need for 2D drawings, thereby decreasing expenses related to design, manufacturing, and quality control.
Lack of Skilled, Digital Talent Pool
COVID-19 crisis has increased pressure on companies to reduce manpower and bring more efficiency
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Standardization and continuous process improvement through knowledge capture and reuse.
Hardware Rationalization
A & D Companies reuse components in new designs and antiquate old designs by modifying the designs.
An Increasing Need for the Automated Design Software
Which help company rationalize hardware and other key part/components that are reused from either legacy designs or off the shelf-type hardware.
DFMPro helps improve Program Performance, Reduce Cost and Improve Collaboration
DFMPro improves program performance and time to market
- DFMPro improves the initial design and manufacturing processes, thus reducing post-release changes resulting in on-time delivery and gains new programs and profits.
- Ensures a smooth transition from development to production by ensuring that the product definition has taken into consideration the manufacturing capabilities of them and their suppliers, thus reducing the number of changes.
Digital transformation with DFMPro as a ‘Digital Manufacturing Expert’
- DFMPro enables seamless virtual collaboration between design groups and manufacturing (in-house or global suppliers) for uninterrupted product development even during major shutdowns.
- Eliminates delays in getting the right feedback- DFMPro aids an effective review mechanism enabling clear and concise messaging that aids corrective decisions for faster product release.
Skills the workforce digitally
- Captures and re-uses best practices & tribal knowledge for continuous improvement. Come to speed in tribal knowledge quicker.
- DFMPro is also easily extensible where new rules can be created to solve manufacturability issues that are specific to shop-floor tribal knowledge and can identify such issues at design time. Digital knowledge capture and reporting of issues is the critical differentiator of DFMPro as a viable must-have for designers.
Reduces cost
- Identifies optimum design alternatives at an early stage helps to reduce the cost of the product.
- Avoids late engineering changes(ECs) and rework.
- Successfully takes advantage of new materials and technologies to reduce cost and meet customer delivery requirements.