Aerospace manufacturing: a digital future

How do you contend with product complexity, greater regulation and faster timelines in aerospace and defense manufacturing? Future-focused digitalization. Where do you start? With closed-loop manufacturing processes and a digital solution that facilitates them.

Closed-loop manufacturing, powered by the right solution, ensures greater manufacturing excellence and innovation by centralizing, organizing and automating aspects of production.

Download this ebook and learn how closed-loop manufacturing can set your aerospace and defense manufacturing operations up for a more effective and profitable future.

Closed-loop manufacturing in aerospace

Eliminate siloed workflows and manual, paper-based data and information transferring with a closed-loop manufacturing solution digital thread. By establishing a single digital source of truth for your design, engineering and manufacturing teams, you can efficiently share design data, effectively conduct change management and quickly diagnose nonconformance.

The closed-loop manufacturing solution connects enterprise resource management (ERP), product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) systems to support communication and collaboration throughout the complete value chain. In short, closed-loop manufacturing connects manufacturing engineering to the production shop floor.

Closed-loop manufacturing and a comprehensive digital twin

Closed-loop manufacturing is built on the digital thread and the digital twin. The digital twin is the virtual representation of the product and its processes. With a comprehensive digital twin, you can analyze and optimize the real-life product in a virtual environment. Aided by the closed-loop manufacturing digital thread, the digital twin is further enriched with real-time data from the shop floor.

This is just scratching the surface when it comes to the functionality and potential benefits of closed-loop manufacturing processes. Download this eBook and get the entire step-by-step playbook for implementing closed-loop manufacturing. Plus, learn how the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, with its end-to-end digital thread and comprehensive digital twin, can produce the best results for your closed-loop manufacturing.