Aero & Defense

Aerospace and Defense organizations must manage innovation and collaboration among large global teams to produce systems and products with unprecedented levels of complexity and interdependence. The challenge is compounded by service lifecycles for these products and systems that can span many decades. Security, governance and quality must all be maintained at the highest levels, all without sacrificing the ability of these teams to respond to change and deliver on shorter timelines.

Organizations developing and delivering software in this industry face challenges like:

• A lack of consistent control over change across all phases of the application lifecycle
• Inadequate and high-overhead means to address oversight/governance demands
• Difficulty in introducing new technologies quickly into products being brought to market
• Uncoordinated engineering teams across disciplines (hardware, software, mechanical, etc.)
• A lack of cooperation and coordination with suppliers, subcontractors and other stakeholders
• Increasing complexity and the number of product variants increases costs and development
• CMMI and other compliance appraisals are difficult and costly to achieve

The MKS Integrity solution for Aerospace and Defense can:

• Improve product and process quality by process-controlled development, full traceability and a single source of truth across all process domains and engineering disciplines
• Eliminate software related maintenance costs and recalls through process driven Test and Release Management
• Increase productivity and profitability through process automation, advanced reuse capabilities and full control of software complexity, which stops redundant work and limits rework
• Drive innovation with cross-discipline application lifecycle management that breaks down silos
• Connect suppliers with a superior data exchange and integration platform
• Reduce complexity and manage product variants by full V-cycle reuse of features, requirements, design, code, and tests.
• Manage many process areas described in CMMI and other maturity models, leading to faster compliance.