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CIMdata Publishes a New Report: “Overcoming the Challenge of Electro-Mechanical Product Development in Aerospace & Defense”
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 5, 2006—A new report from consulting and research firm CIMdata, Inc., entitled “Overcoming the Challenge of Electro-Mechanical Product Development in Aerospace & Defense,” discusses how electro-mechanical product development enables key industry initiatives to transform the defense strategy to fully leverage the information age. The key to success of this transformation is the immediate, worldwide access to reliable information that must be integrated with weapons and communications processes in order to quickly deploy the most efficient and agile force in the battlefield.
According to Tom Boyer, CIMdata Senior Consultant, “The change to an information-based defense strategy is possible because nearly every attribute of a weapon system can now be digitized as well as automated and integrated with other weapons systems and communications processes.” A foundation program for accelerating this change in the US is called Force Transformation. Mr. Boyer explained, “In the US, Force Transformation is a complete reorganization of warfare tactics, human resources training and deployment processes, procurement policies, and product development practices.”
The report describes how Force Transformation and other similar initiatives in Ministries of Defense around the world are mandating new Aerospace & Defense (A&D) product development processes and are driving the need for effective electro-mechanical product development solutions. It also provides examples of these solutions and describes problems that A&D suppliers will encounter. The report further explains how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) mitigates many of these problems. Finally, it provides recommendations that A&D enterprises should strongly consider in order to successfully accomplish this industry transformation.
Copies of the “Overcoming the Challenge of Electro-Mechanical Product Development in Aerospace & Defense” report are available at no cost through the CIMdata website.