Aerospace & Defence Market Challenges
Across Aerospace & Defence, organisations face increasing and changing challenges, ranging from intensifying competition to a fundamental change in the nature of warfare. Although the drivers vary, the effects are the same: responsiveness, agility and end-to-end visibility are key to deliver enhanced efficiency and asset availability or utilisation. The relentless drive of ‘more for less’ touches every one of us.
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Armed Forces—Capability Transformation
To conduct expeditionary and peace-keeping missions, combining joint and coalition capabilities, flexibility is key. With budgets under pressure, the emphasis is increasingly on Through Life Capability— balancing through life cost & operational effectiveness, maximising availability and incrementally enhancing equipment capabilities in-service. The era of cold-war stockpiles is over: supply-chains have to be flexible and responsive, able to deploy anywhere—but robust enough to cope with extended missions. Interoperability, agility and visibility are essential. Aerospace & Defence - IFS Maritime strategy — PDF-file (404 KB)
Defence Service Providers—delivering enhanced Asset Availability
As Armed Forces step up the challenges of an ever-changing world, they depend on the Defence Industry evolving to provide support services, through Performance Based Logistics or Availability based contracts. This means taking on responsibility for maintaining equipment and enhancing capability. It also means becoming supply-chain orientated, capable of optimising asset availability and cost-effectiveness, across a network of partners. End-to-end visibility is fundamental—to optimise planning, to provide strategic oversight and to track contractual KPIs.
Commercial Aviation—delivering enhanced aircraft availability at an optimised cost
With volatile demand, the emergence of Low Cost Carriers and progression towards Open Skies competitive pressures have intensified. All operators need to maintain cost effective maintenance schedules and supply chains while enhancing aircraft utilisation. This may mean MRO services are outsourced, or Technical Services units operate as a P&L. The challenge is to deliver improved analysis and planning, better information visibility, smarter supply chain and optimised work processes across a network of organisations to yield efficiencies and increased time in the air. Commercial Aviation
Aerospace & Defence Manufacturing—through life project-centric PLM
The boundaries between Design & Manufacturing and In-service are becoming increasingly blurred. The design and manufacture of complex assets for Aerospace & Defence has always demanded a project-centric approach. Today, the OEM and the supply-chain will also need to take a through-life approach—designing in future capability provision, enhancing capability of in-service assets and providing after-market services. Defense Manufacturers — PDF-file (751 KB)
IFS Defence acquires Information Science Consultants Ltd
For more information on this strategic step enhancing IFS’ naval capability, click here. IFS Defence purchases Information Science Consultants Ltd
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