Skip to main content
  • Contact

    Contact Sales

     

    Fill in the form to have a Dassault Systèmes expert contact you to answer your questions and discuss any of your needs or call directly on one of these numbers:

    USA & Canada: 1855 696 1125

    India: 1800 200 9276

    Other English countries: +800 379 78 361

    If you have any questions regarding our other services, please get in touch with:

    • our Technical & Customer support
    • our Academic team

     

  • Aerospace & Defense

    • Challenges
      • Transform Supply Chain in Value Network
      • Drive Costs Down
      • Enable Flexible Production
      • Develop Sustainable Technology & Services Portfolio
      • Rebuild Passenger Confidence
    • Segments
      • Aerospace Propulsion
      • Aerospace Suppliers
      • Airframe Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)
      • Airlines
      • Airports
      • Defense
      • Space
    • Solutions
      • Airport Experience
      • Build to Operate
      • Cleared to Operate
      • Co-Design to Target
      • Engineered to Fly
      • Keep Them Operating
      • Passenger Experience
      • Program Excellence
      • Ready for Rate
      • Reinvent The Sky
      • Winning Concept
    • Resources
      • Customer Stories
      • Events
      • Resource Center
  1. Aerospace & Defense
  2. Industries
  3. 3DS
  1. Aerospace Suppliers

Aerospace Suppliers

Shifting demands requires new supplier strategies to deliver on time, on target and on cost.

See Solutions

The OEM Handoff

Learn how aerospace suppliers are better able to share and manage more business risks associated with development and production programs.

Download

The OEM Handoff

Shifting design responsibility puts greater burden on aerospace suppliers

Today, supplier-created content represents 50%-60% of the value of an aerospace system, according to Lockheed Martin Executive Chairman Bob Stevens, and he predicts that figure will continue to grow. This is creating incredible pressure on lower-tier suppliers, but can they manage the change?

To survive, much less thrive, experts say, suppliers will need to make step-change improvements in managing operating costs, be more innovative and forge closer partnerships with their OEM customers.

Tony Velocci, a 23-year veteran of Aviation Week, in the whitepaper, “The OEM Handoff” answers the question of how can suppliers drive closer coordination with OEMs to deliver the optimal customer experience, while improving quality, delivering faster and driving down cost.

OEM Handoff > Aerospace & Defense > Dassault Systèmes®
Article
Aerospace & Defense Extends Innovation via the Cloud

New cloud capabilities offer more options and flexibility

Article
Digitalization - The smart path to supplier development and program success
Challenge

Shifting Risk and Accountability to the Supply Chain

Relentless price pressures and increased demand from aerospace operators are driving large companies at or near the top of the supply chain to shift even more responsibility for innovation and productivity gains to the smaller, lower-tier builders of components and subsystems. Suppliers are now asked to sign long-term supply agreements (lasting 10 to 15 years), promise regular price reductions and accept liability should something go wrong. In response, suppliers must make significant strides to drive down costs and meet delivery times or face significant penalties.

...Our customers are pretty demanding, and there are some pretty high expectations on time and on budget.

Stephen Shaffer
Chief Information Officer, GDC Technics
Challenge

Design and Deliver More Complex Parts at Lower Costs

While aerospace suppliers are now accountable to drive significant cost reduction and ensure quality, they must also create increasingly complex components and systems to meet today’s demands. This requires significant investment in new engineering and manufacturing capabilities to drive innovation while trying to drive down the cost per unit.

Supplier-created content represents 50-60 percent of the value of an aerospace system. 

Bob Stevens
Executive Chairman, Lockheed Martin
Video
Success Story: Latécoère on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform
Duration
Challenge

Increased Aerospace & Defense Demand and Agility in Rate

Commercial airframe manufacturers are sitting on backlogs equivalent to about eight years’ worth of production. To meet the demand, suppliers must reorganize their manufacturing plants to make them leaner, more agile and more connected in order to drive operational efficiency.

A fifth of suppliers are at risk of not being able to deliver the ramp-up that is required.

Price Waterhouse Coopers
Soaring or Stalling: Can aircraft manufacturers prevent rate ramp-up problems?
Challenge

Greater Air Travel Demand, Globalization and New Markets

Air travel is projected to grow more than five percent annually over the next 20 years, fueled by an increase in the world’s middle class. To meet this demand, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers are restructuring to penetrate deeper into high-growth markets, acquire enabling technologies and/or position themselves for new sales opportunities. In addition, the growth of new regional OEMs will continue to drive this globalization trend.  Suppliers will need to adapt to extend their footprint into developing markets or risk being left out as OEMs seek to integrate their supply chains to drive efficiency.

We project 7.2 billion passengers to travel in 2035, a near doubling of the 3.8 billion air travelers in 2016.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA)
20 Year Passenger Forecast
Solutions

Meet OEM Customer Demand on Time, on Target and on Cost

Now aerospace and defense small and medium-sized suppliers can accelerate delivery from initial concept to full production by up to 50 percent. Learn how suppliers can thrive in the highly competitive aerospace market and improve gross margins, revenues and market share.

Industry Solution Experience
Engineered to Fly

Accelerate Aerospace & Defense supplier efforts from bid to delivery while improving margins

Industry Solution Experience
Co-Design to Target

Deliver aerospace programs on-time, on-target and to specification

Industry Solution Experience
Ready for Rate

Optimize manufacturing planning to accelerate ramp-up and enhance production agility

Industry Solution Experience
Build to Operate

Digital Precision throughout Manufacturing Operations

Industry Solution Experience
Cleared to Operate

Test and certify on time, at lower cost

Industry Solution Experience
Winning Concept

Win more business by transforming concept design process into a competitive advantage

Industry Solution Experience
Program Excellence

Develop winning strategy and high program performance

Industry Solution Experience
Passenger Experience

Stand-out from the competition with customized, cost-efficient and certified cabin experiences