Bluestar PLM for Aerospace & Defense
Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD, PLM and ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Start simple by CAD/PDM + ERP Connectors, explore a single business system by having CAD + PLM + ERP with Bluestar PLM, or move your business towards enterprise product configuration by choosing the Product Configuration Module.
Leverage your time-to-market with smart compliance and one source of product truth
As a manufacturer for the Aerospace & Defence industries, you need to balance your processes with strict regulations for product compliance and export controls. It all raises the need for optimal workflows and an IT platform of integrated systems.
For Aerospace & Defence manufacturers to stay competitive, they must be able to implement solutions that interconnect information and processes – not only across the internal enterprise and departments – but external partners and suppliers as well. When CAD, PLM and ERP are not fully integrated and operate as silos, corporate-wide information sharing and collaboration becomes nearly impossible. Consequentially, Aerospace & Defence manufacturers suffer delays, miss cost targets, slow change cycles and orders that end up not fulfilling customer requirements. These increased industry demands means that manufacturing companies are facing several critical challenges that are tightly connected to a deep integration between Engineering and Manufacturing.
With Bluestar PLM, you can have an enterprise that meets the challenge by bringing your entire product record into on single source of truth in real-time, anytime and across all your teams.
Challenges of non-embedded PLM and ERP systems
- Manual data synchronization between the ERP, PLM and CAD systems can cause data misalignments.
- Reusing data is challenging due to time-consuming manual data transfers.
- Missing visibility in end-to-end business processes leads to non-value-added work time.
- Order fulfillments are delayed by bottlenecks causing operational performance to suffer.
- Sharing engineering data between different sites can be troublesome without a common data management system.
- Engineering change orders are executed without understanding the impact on the supply chain.
Modules for your Engineering
How Bluestar PLM benefits Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Companies
Enforce procedural and regulative compliance
Best-practice workflows are reused as templates in repetitive business processes ensuring compliance with official procedures.
Strict regulations in industries like aerospace and defence are managed in Bluestar PLM with seamless reporting and calculations that ensure your products does not exceed thresholds for substances of high concern.
Better quality products
Allows you to standardize your business processes to easily repeat them over and over. This makes it much easier to optimize your predefined product configurations, for optimal end product.
Shorter time to market
With Bluestar PLM fully embedded in D365/AX, departments and sites can extend their work and collaborate in a single digital environment, so sales, engineering, procurement, and manufacturing processes can run parallel to each other, eliminating wait times.
More innovation
The time you save with standardized business processes and configured products can be used to optimize existing processes and new product developments.
Reduced costs
With largely automated business processes and product standardizations, optimized processes are obviously cheaper than developing a new process or product that is only ever used once.
Product visibility
Bluestar PLM enables seamlessness between sales, engineering, and manufacturing. What engineers has defined as a configured product, will immediately be shown in real time, so all departments and locations will have the latest and accurate information to work with.
Design automation
Automatically generate 3D CAD-models and detailed drawings based on product variants and configurations. As a result, you will save hundreds of hours otherwise spent on design processes.
Fewer mistakes
Repetition of processes means more routine in execution. Potential errors are prevented and production is streamlined.
Our customers gain competitive advantages
We have implemented Bluestar PLM for more than hundreds of enterprises and world-wide 10,000 users. Following implementations, we have evaluated on our customers’ user experiences and benefits achieved from having our system onboard. These evaluations have given us great examples of the results gained from Bluestar PLM inside Dynamics 365/AX.
Whitepaper
“10 Reasons Why You Need ERP-based PLM”
Learn why PLM – Product Lifecycle Management, is essential for your manufacturing company to enter Industry 4.0. By having a single solution where the PLM system is embedded in ERP, you can fully leverage product data to satisfy customer demands and deliver orders on time and within budget.
Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
pbp@bluestarplm.com