Eurostep released ShareAspace 1.9, a new version of its engineering data platform designed to give customers a more stable, flexible foundation for sharing and using product information. A key focus of this release is a new Integrated Product Support (IPS) offering, aimed at helping defence organisations contract for, consolidate and trust the product support information they need to keep assets available and support costs under control.
What’s new in ShareAspace 1.9?
ShareAspace 1.9 is a platform release that strengthens through-life support and multi-enterprise collaboration. It introduces new IPS capabilities for contracting and governing trusted product support information, alongside updates to Design to Manufacturing that improve supplier exchanges and handovers. ShareAspace Export Control also includes refinements that strengthen compliance workflows and governance.
We built ShareAspace 1.9 for long term use. It runs on a modern long-term support framework, introducing a new web user interface that can evolve in parallel with the classic ShareAspace web user interface that will be kept fully supported. New extension options now make it easier for customers and partners to add services and modules around their specific programmes without disrupting existing solutions.
For our existing users, this means current implementations continue to work as before, while there is a clear path to extend and modernise.
For new customers, it provides a future ready platform that can be configured for different collaboration and support scenarios, rather than forcing a one size fits all product.
New ShareAspace IPS capabilities
At the centre of this release is the ShareAspace IPS offering. Defence owner operators and primes are being asked to do more with existing platforms, often across large programmes involving many companies and long asset lives. One of their biggest challenges is not just “having data”, but clearly contracting for the right information, gathering it from internal systems and suppliers, and being able to rely on it when planning maintenance, managing fleets or responding to new demands.
“Defence customers are relying on effective management of defence platforms across their life cycle, and that demands a digital backbone they can trust. With ShareAspace 1.9 and its new IPS capabilities, Eurostep is helping us bring product and support information together in a way that directly underpins availability, cost control and mission readiness. It is a strong example of how, across BAE Systems and our customers, we are acting as a digital mission partner for our platform businesses and our customers: turning complex through life data into a managed, long-term asset, delivered through the right skills, tools and ecosystem to succeed in the modern digital defence market.”
– Luigi Sidoli, Head of Digital Management, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
The IPS offering in ShareAspace 1.9 is designed around exactly these needs. It provides a suite of capabilities that helps organisations:
- Keep assets available and handovers under control
Bring product and support information together across owners, primes, partners and suppliers, so it can be used consistently for complex information requests, handovers and day to day support. - Make sure contracts deliver the information support teams actually need
Specify and request the product support data they need from industry, and gather it from internal systems in a controlled, repeatable way as requirements change. - Get the right parts, tools and skills to the right place at the right time
Validate and assure the information returned from the wider supply chain, instead of relying on ad hoc spreadsheets and one-off data drops when planning maintenance and managing fleets. - Design better upgrades and long-term support
Connect information from design and manufacturing with in-service experience, so operational feedback can influence future upgrades, modifications and long-term support planning.
“Too often, valuable product support information is locked away in silos and short-term projects. The ShareAspace IPS offering helps our customers turn that data into a managed, long-term asset that directly supports readiness, smarter maintenance and better use of existing platforms.”
– Simon Pettersson, Director Defence Industry Vertical, Eurostep
Because IPS in ShareAspace is delivered as a suite of capabilities, it can be configured around real programmes rather than forcing customers into a single, fixed product. This supports faster deployment and makes it easier to start from where organisations are today, without having to redesign all their processes and systems up front.
The IPS offering in ShareAspace 1.9 builds on Eurostep experience helping defence and national critical infrastructure organisations share asset data securely across enterprises and supply chain networks. It marks an important step in enabling customers to treat product support information as something they can contract for, consolidate and trust, not just as a by-product of individual projects.
