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Aerospace and defense
BAE Systems Military Air Solutions
Teamcenter supports aircraft through 50-year lifecycle
Product PLM enables new business focuses on combat aircraft, jet trainers,
Teamcenter model – from customer reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned
aerial vehicles, providing development,
requirements to after-sales
training, repair and maintenance for air-
Business initiatives maintenance craft such as the Nimrod maritime recon-
Enterprise data management naissance and attack aircraft and the
Advanced air capability
Typhoon combat fighter to name just
BAE Systems is a global company engaged a few.
Business challenges in the development, delivery and support
of advanced defense and aerospace sys- With globally dispersed design teams and
Partnered-support business
tems in the air, on land and at sea. The complex products being the nature of the
model requires through-life
third-largest global defense company, BAE business, MAS management has long rec-
support and maintenance
Systems has major operations across five ognized the need for product data man-
for 50+ years
continents, with customers and partners in agement (PDM). Recently, however, as the
Customers’ demands for more than 100 countries. The company’s company has evolved to an “Availability
faster response and shorter Military Air Solutions (MAS) business Service” business model, it found its
cycle times
Budget pressure to manage
initial PLM investment and
ongoing costs
Keys to success
Upgrade from Enovia PM to a
Teamcenter COTS deployment
Single source of product and
process knowledge
Maintenance, repair and
overhaul (MRO) solution,
including logistics support
Shared vision with Siemens
PLM Software
Results
Successfully repositioned as
through-life support provider
www.siemens.com/teamcenter
Results (continued) original PDM system, Enovia PM, lacking.
Collapsed lead times; lower “Our new business model requires BAE to
development costs support the in-service phase of the aircraft.
Traditionally, that was undertaken by the
Tighter supplier integration; Royal Air Force (RAF), and the RAF used to
faster reviews and changes manage all the integration risks,” says
Faster PLM implementation Graham Malley, PLM program manager,
for new aircraft BAE Systems Military Air Solutions.
Lower cost of ownership for
PLM software and services “Under the new business model, instead
of just designing and delivering aircraft,
MAS now provides configuration-driven,
through-life maintenance, repair and oper-
ational support that starts when a product
is delivered to the customer,” says Diane
Raymond, director of information man-
agement and technology, BAE Systems
Military Air Solutions. “We needed a solu-
tion that would help us manage the entire
lifecycle of the aircraft, which can be as
long as 50 years. Through-life support
was the key selection criterion for the new
PLM system.”
Through-life support calls for PLM
The change in the way BAE does business Woods, PLM design manager for the
called for a change in its approach to data Nimrod and Typhoon deployments, BAE
management. MAS required a true product Systems Military Air Solutions.
lifecycle management (PLM) strategy to
enable end-to-end product support. To address its PLM strategy, MAS chose
the Teamcenter® digital lifecycle man-
“From a support perspective, most of the agement solution from Siemens PLM
PDM systems out there are focused on Software. Key capabilities for MAS are:
the as-designed definition, and in some Teamcenter maintenance, repair and over-
instances the as-planned, which is really haul solution, including logistics records
how we build the product,” says Bill management; reporting and business
“ We were looking for a PLM solution that
would support our new business model.
Only Teamcenter offered the breadth and
level of capability we were looking for.”
Graham Malley
PLM Program Manager
BAE Systems Military Aircraft Solutions
“Typically engineering sys-
tems finish at the point at
which we deliver product.
Teamcenter is fundamental
to be able to manage our
aircraft and support phases
of the lifecycle.”
Diane Raymond
Director of Information
Management and Technology
BAE Systems Military Aircraft
Solutions
analytics; community collaboration and our lead times to meet the tighter sched-
enterprise knowledge management. ules of our customers. It also improves the
efficiency of our operations.” Teamcenter
Woods says, “From the support side of manages bills of materials and aircraft con-
things, it seems to be an area that figurations as well.
Siemens has focused on and has a lot
more maturity than a number of the other Teamcenter integration with the company’s
vendors out there.” Diane Raymond notes, other legacy systems enables a level
“Teamcenter supports us in our move of communication between domains that
toward partnered support as we have to wasn’t possible previously. Now, for
be able to maintain all of our engineering instance, a design change to a wing can
data throughout the lifecycle of our prod- flow automatically into the systems that
ucts. Typically engineering systems finish drive manufacturing deliverables and tech-
at the point at which we deliver product. nical publications.
Teamcenter is fundamental to be able to
manage our aircraft and support phases of Using Teamcenter, MAS has implemented
the lifecycle.” Malley adds, “The whole an end-to-end PLM solution. Malley notes,
idea of Teamcenter is that we can do the “With Teamcenter, we are managing every-
work that needs to be done smoothly from thing from when we get the customer
beginning to end. It’s meant to support requirements through to design, build and
the full lifecycle of the aircraft.” into support. This is all managed in a single
database, in one application. That’s what
One source, end-to-end we see as a key strength of Teamcenter.”
Teamcenter is now deployed in a number He points out that having an end-to-end
of areas across MAS, including the F35 PLM solution supports the company’s move
and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) pro- into after-sales service. “Because we’ve got
grams, and is currently being deployed to all the information in the one data set that
the Nimrod MRA4 and Typhoon programs. provides a representation of the actual
It provides a single source of product and configuration of the aircraft in use, when a
process knowledge, managing data from customer has a service issue, we can pro-
many different applications including the vide a quick response,” Malley explains.
CATIA design files. “The design engineers,
support engineers and service engineers Collaboration support
all now have a single source of informa- MAS is finding that Teamcenter supports
tion,” says Malley. “With Teamcenter, we collaboration both internally and exter-
bring all those data elements into one nally. “Teamcenter allows data to flow
database that all the engineers are work- through the various engineering disciplines
ing with concurrently. This helps reduce and in this way it significantly improves
“So often you can see people collaboration across the disciplines,”
wanting to sell software and Malley says. “Externally, because
then they’ll try and make it Teamcenter is a web-based application, it
fit your business. That provides easy access from the customer
wasn’t the way Siemens and supplier point of view. We’re currently
worked. In the early stages, using Teamcenter community collabora-
Siemens worked with us to tion functionality with our supplier base,
understand our business first and we are finding benefits there in terms
and then sell software to of sharing information and drastically col-
meet our needs.” lapsing the lead time for passing informa-
tion between the supplier and ourselves.”
Diane Raymond
Director of Information
“The ability to interact online with suppli- A lasting PLM solution
Management and Technology
ers gives us the ability to do real-time When it comes to supporting products with
BAE Systems Military
reviews and real-time changes,” adds a lifespan of 50 years or more, MAS needed
Aircraft Solutions
Woods. “Rather than waiting for the mail a PLM partner it could trust to be around
to be delivered and another week to get a as long as its aircraft. “There were a num-
response, we can accomplish these tasks ber of reasons why we chose Teamcenter,”
in a day.” explains Diane Raymond. “Obviously, it
met our technical requirements. It was also
MAS benefits from Teamcenter in a clear that in Siemens we found a partner
number of important ways, according to who would work with us and support the
Malley. “One of the benefits is collapsing software for as long as we need it.”
lead times, and invariably when you col-
lapse lead times, you save costs. Another is Siddeek Adam, PLM project manager for
that we can be more responsive to the cus- BAE Systems Military Air Solutions,
tomer. This is critical because our custom- explains, “The relationship with Siemens is
ers must continuously adapt to new types absolutely crucial. They really work with us
of threats in combat situations, and it’s our like partners rather than suppliers. To sup-
responsibility to provide the capability to port us, they have to understand what the
counter those threats. With solutions and real challenges are and what the real diffi-
services from Siemens, we are better able culties are. They understand that our suc-
to quickly deliver, and now also to main- cess, BAE System’s success, is Siemens PLM
tain, the aircraft our customers rely on.” Software’s success.”
“ Teamcenter is fundamental
to be able to manage our
aircraft and support phases
of the lifecycle.”
Diane Raymond
Director of Information Management and Technology
BAE Systems Military Aircraft Solutions
Solutions/Services The partnership with Siemens
Teamcenter includes the hand-off of
www.siemens.com/teamcenter Teamcenter maintenance and
support to MAS IT. “After the
Implementation services
project is completed, BAE will
and support
be self-sufficient in the sup-
port of the application,” says
Customer’s primary business Malley. “On previous deploy-
ments, because of the com-
BAE Systems Military Air
plexity of the application,
Solutions business delivers
we’ve been very reliant on the
advanced military air capability
vendor. The ability for BAE to
through major aircraft pro-
support the application once
grams in the UK and with
the Siemens consultants have
many overseas customers.
left will significantly reduce
www.baesystems.com
the through-life cost of sup-
porting the application.”
Customer location
One of the keys to lowering
Warton and 7 other sites
the cost of ownership for MAS
in the UK was finding a system that
would not require a great deal
of work on MAS’s part to
implement. “One of the things
we looked for early in the
selection process was a sys-
tem we didn’t have to heavily customize,”
notes Diane Raymond. Teamcenter has
proven its suitability in that arena, being
deployed in as few as 12 weeks on the
new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle program.
In the past, that process took as long as
18 months to two years, according to
Diane Raymond.
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