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Propelling aerospace and defense innovation to new frontiers


From unmanned autonomous vehicles to new and replacement aircraft, the demand for innovative aerospace and defense (A&D) products is growing significantly—with no signs of slowing down.

To remain at the forefront of the competition and operate at the speed of relevance, A&D manufacturers need to ramp up production, increase the pace of innovation, and work and collaborate more efficiently throughout the extended enterprise.

At PTC, we’re helping leading A&D manufacturers tackle these challenges with a digital thread of actionable, interconnected product data. For decades, PTC has been helping customers manage some of the most strategic and highly secured systems in the world—from initial design and development to manufacturing, maintenance, service, and retirement.

Unmatched growth opportunities across sea, air, land, and space domains

Space systems

Naval systems

Ground vehicles

Airframes

Solutions for aerospace and defense

Address your top challenges with integrated solutions that accelerate time-to-market, ensure quality and compliance, and improve asset and mission readiness.
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Explore Digital Engineering

Speed up R&D

Faster innovation is urgently needed in aerospace and defense, where products and systems are increasingly being defined by software-driven capabilities and the outcomes they deliver. To achieve the rapid pace of innovation the industry needs, product development teams are adopting agile workflows and streamlining processes to further compress timelines and reduce costs. With open services for lifecycle collaboration (OSLC) integration, PTC’s portfolio of digital engineering solutions enables a modular approach to product development and syste...
Explore Requirements Management

Ensure compliance with standards, policies, and regulations

The complexity of modern aerospace and defense systems has made it increasingly difficult to develop products in compliance with industry standards, policies, and regulations such as FAR, ISO, ITAR, DoDI 5000.97, DO178C, DO254, S1000D, and S3000L. With a centralized repository for requirements, PTC’s solutions enable engineering teams to integrate compliance into the development process as early as possible and ensure that software and hardware requirements are properly defined and aligned.
Improve Digital Collaboration

Improve digital collaboration

Efficient collaboration is critical for delivering outcomes that enable aerospace and defense leaders to win. With open architecture and OSLC connectivity, PTC solutions enable stakeholders across the enterprise to leverage a digital thread of real-time, interconnected product data that breaks down silos, streamlines workflows, and achieves interoperability across departments, functions, and systems.
Overcome Product Complexity

Manage product complexity and variability

Aerospace and defense products are becoming increasingly complex with high levels of variability and customization in software and hardware components. With a model-based approach to product development, you can streamline development processes, manage configurations and variability more effectively, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Our solutions help you manage complexity by ensuring real-time, standardized information is integrated across the entire product lifecycle—ultimately improving quality, reducing risk, and boosting eff...
Discover PLM for Manufacturing

Ramp up production

Lengthy delivery timelines for aerospace and defense products have led to record-high order backlogs for manufacturers. To burn down backlogs and meet the surging demand for commercial aircraft and new space and defense systems, manufacturers need to ramp up production while reducing quality issues, operating costs, and rework. By using PLM to connect the production environment to the enterprise digital thread, aerospace and defense manufacturers can streamline the manufacturing process to bring high-quality products to market faster.
Innovate Service Offerings

Improve mission readiness

Mission readiness is based on the availability and effectiveness of equipment, personnel, logistics, training, and intelligence. PTC’s portfolio of service lifecycle management (SLM) solutions helps aerospace and defense leaders improve readiness by facilitating efficient maintenance processes, including failure anticipation and predictive maintenance, and enabling better collaboration, streamlined data management, and optimized logistics support so mission critical equipment is readily available and operational when needed.
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See how PTC is helping aerospace and defense leaders drive value across the enterprise

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Lufthansa Technik

Learn how Lufthansa Technik integrated and streamlined processes from engineering to manufacturing and service, ensuring data accessibility and enhancing efficiency across the organization. Learn More

NASA

Learn about NASA's journey toward digital engineering transformation and the requisite strategy they are implementing to realize all of the potential benefits. Learn More

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Discover how LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieved a fusion breakthrough using PLM and Creo to manage over 3.5 million components and 750,000 unique part designs. Learn More

Boeing

Learn how Boeing Global Services meets demanding inventory needs and keeps customer satisfaction a top priority. Learn More

GE Aviation

Learn how GE Aviation’s On Wing Support exceeded service revenue goals while maximizing efficiency and productivity. Learn More

PTC technologies that support aerospace and defense success

Explore how PTC technologies are helping solve critical business challenges in the aerospace and defense sector and enabling our customers to advance at the speed of relevance.

Computer-aided design (CAD)

Solve your unique product development challenges with robust on-prem and innovative SaaS CAD solutions.

Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Orchestrate workflows, speed new capability insertion, innovate with product development, improve asset uptime and lower support costs with PLM for digital transformation.

Application lifecycle management (ALM)

Unify requirements, risk, and test management with agile engineering capabilities to accelerate delivery of high-quality software.

Service lifecycle management (SLM)

Optimize after-sales service operations to ensure mission readiness and peak performance for aerospace and defense assets. Grow your service business, maximize customer uptime, and maintain compliance with stringent industry standards through efficient lifecycle management.