Ensuring on-time delivery

Any delay in terms of schedule or not meeting the specifications or budget can have a huge impact on the viability of a program as well as the companies involved. New software demonstrates companies can actually deliver on what they commit.

The aerospace industry is facing numerous challenges moving forward, most notably increasingly complex and competitive programs with competitors from different regions of the world, and the growing shortfall in terms of the number of skilled professionals working in the industry, with as much as 40% of the workforce becoming eligible for retirement within the next three years.

“We looked at these and said, how can we impact positively these challenges?” said Michel Tellier, Vice President, Industry Solutions, Aerospace and Defense, Dassault Systèmes (DS), at the company's recent 3DExperience Forum in Orlando, FL. “The area where we have the greatest opportunity to impact these was actually in the early stages of the program-conceptual design, advanced design, preliminary design-where you make the promise, decide on the technologies, decide on your partners, where fundamentally you stipulate what you're going to do. This is an area that's been historically underserved.”