Aerospace and defense
Enhance your business processes and supply chain to meet the expectations of both customers and regulators.
Meet expectations with confidence
The aerospace and defense industry is under pressure to maintain quality and operational excellence in a volatile world. Maintaining operations in the face of complex supply chain disruptions, a shortage of raw materials and skilled workers, while meeting the demands of the market among rising costs is no easy feat.
Our aerospace and defense solutions provide easy access to important information so you can confidently meet both customer and regulatory expectations, adhering to AS9102, AS9145 and AS13100 through efficient and standardized processes.
Access integrated applications and a single source of data, and produce ballooned drawings, process flows, FMEA, control plans and Cp/Cpk charts.
Understanding the key challenges in aerospace and defense
We support nine of the world’s top 10 global aerospace and defense companies to maintain excellence across the priority industry challenges below.
- Supply chain
- Improved visibility of supply chain activity is needed to build resilience against global uncertainties and a shift to regional material sourcing
- Talent shortages
- Digitization will play a key part in attracting, retaining and developing talent to fill the workforce gaps in the industry
- Operational risk
- Cybersecurity, automation and resilient systems are increasingly important to maintain compliance and efficiency
- Cost
- Balancing cost constraints with the need for uncompromising quality is essential to deliver reliable and safe aerospace products
- Employee safety
- Safer workplaces build stronger businesses. A proactive safety culture is key, and that depends on accurate, comprehensive and timely data
Automate labor-intensive processes and reduce quality control bottle necks with the help of ballooned drawings and pre-built AS9102 FAI and AS9145 PPAP reports.
Eliminate interpretation errors, gain deeper insights beyond pass or fail and receive instant feedback if your quality results are in or out of tolerance.
Populate inspection plan templates, create custom fields and upload reports directly to Net-Inspect.
Access customizable report outputs to address issues swiftly and complete Part Submission Warrants to sign-off with your customers.
[Ideagen Quality Management] made the requirements much easier to meet as it tracks key information such as the changes we made and saved.
How we can help aerospace and defense companies
Quality
Adhere to industry standards, regulations, and mitigate quality and compliance risks. Ensure products meet crucial specifications and standards, promoting overall quality control and customer satisfaction.
Environmental, health & safety
Establish safer workplaces and stronger businesses. Improve visibility and traceability across the supply chain, digitizing safety programs, minimizing environmental impact, and effectively managing health and safety risks.
Document collaboration
Facilitate efficient collaboration and communication within your business. Streamline document management processes and allow teams to collaborate, share and review important documents in real-time, enhancing productivity.
Additional reading
Expand your quality knowledge with featured resourcesMartin Aerospace ease their workload when working to customer requirements
Learn how Martin Aerospace transformed their entire quality system to remove the issues they were facing in document management and customer and third-party audits.
Read customer success storyWhat is PPAP and why is it important?
Your quick guide to PPAP and a breakdown of this key process.
Read the blogWhat is AS9100?
Find out what AS9100 is all about and why it's important in the manufacturing process.
Read the blogSafety culture toolkit
At Ideagen, we are committed to empowering EHS professionals like you drive positive change within your organization. This free toolkit contains everything you need to assess and improve your safety culture.
Access toolkitMastering proposal development for US government and defense contractors
In this e-book, we explore how industry leaders, BAE Systems and AAR Corp, have implemented robust, secure and controlled processes for managing proposal development.