Today, aerospace and defense product manufacturers are under tremendous pressure to do more with less, and get it done faster due to ongoing changes, budgetary constraints, and increasingly stringent regulations. As they seek to improve product performance and functionality by replacing legacy mechanical systems with electrification and software, they face numerous challenges related to quality, delivery, and cost.
The pressure to reduce program costs and accelerate schedules while meeting requirements is one of the biggest challenges. Concurrently, aerospace programs are becoming highly integrated and thus increasingly complex stemming from challenges in designing, manufacturing, and certifying new products, and bringing them to market quickly.