From the Aras blog:
"As the aerospace industry continues to change, it’s reached an inflection point where the openness and upgradability of IT systems – particularly PLM – have taken on far greater importance.
Open data access, tool interoperability, and connectivity among systems are all now recognized as critical PLM priorities to enable next generation design, cross-discipline engineering and supplier collaboration processes.
In fact, openness is a necessary prerequisite for most 21st century strategic imperatives including Industry 4.0 / smart factory, IoT, Digital Twin, Machine Learning, and more. Without full and open access to data these initiatives will be ineffective at best… and potentially not possible / won’t work.
When you factor in the additional challenges of the obsolescence of aging PDM/PLM systems and an inability to upgrade and you’re looking at foundational barriers to digital transformation.
That’s why most of the world’s aerospace OEMs, including Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, GE Aviation, Gulfstream, Rolls-Royce, SAFRAN, and others, have banded together to form the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (A&D PAG). Facilitated by CIMdata, the A&D PAG is a 'who’s who' of global aerospace providers all collaborating..."
To read the rest of the blog post, please visit: http://community.aras.com/en/whats-the-ad-plm-action-group-and-why-should-anyone-care/
