Quality and Validation of Digital Designs for Aerospace and Defense

As aerospace and defense manufacturing becomes increasingly digitized-from the earliest design stages to the factory floor and beyond-data accuracy is fundamental to realizing the speed, quality and repeatability promised by interconnected and automated computer systems and manufacturing machines.

In parallel to such developments, OEMs and supply chains need to service aerospace and defense platforms that are likely to be in operation for decades, even as the tools and personnel that originally defined them change over time. Moreover, the industry differs from nearly all other fields in its unique requirements for safety, and inherent scale and complexity. Recognizing the critical importance of ensuring long-term system performance and business sustainability, aerospace and defense contractors are moving steadily toward Model-Based Definition (MBD) and the Model Based Enterprise (MBE).