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To a lesser extent, the defence sector brings together all the industry's PLM needs. From one-off production (nuclear aircraft carriers) to large-run production (munitions), through short-run (e.g. satellites) and medium-run production (aircraft and vehicles), the characteristics of Defence's offer creation process are similar to those of their civilian cousins, sometimes with certain particularities due to enhanced security and secrecy requirements.
One-off and short-run productions is characterized by long lead and complex component life cycles and mainly documentary configuration management. In the overall information system, PLM is an indispensable doorway to complex management systems sometimes extending to human resources management (e.g. measuring response personnel exposure in contaminated areas).
In the medium-run area, the range of products in the defence field is very varied. It includes hundreds of units and concerns airplanes, tanks, weapons systems and other vehicles. These products have sectoral habits since the industrialists concerned are often also involved in civil activities. The complexity of managing component configuration or combining them with applicability or variant concepts is their main characteristic. The relationship with production management systems is also fundamental.
Munitions are a typical example of large-scale Defence sector production. Complex and subject to continual technological change, they are very similar to consumer products in the electronics area. As with portable telephones and CD players with a short market life, the PLM characteristics of those products have to do with the search for more component and system reusability. The search for fast and faultless roll-out imposes stronger links with downstream systems.
To a lesser extent, the defence sector brings together all the industry's PLM needs. From one-off production (nuclear aircraft carriers) to large-run production (munitions), through short-run (e.g. satellites) and medium-run production (aircraft and vehicles), the characteristics of Defence's offer creation process are similar to those of their civilian cousins, sometimes with certain particularities due to enhanced security and secrecy requirements.
One-off and short-run productions is characterized by long lead and complex component life cycles and mainly documentary configuration management. In the overall information system, PLM is an indispensable doorway to complex management systems sometimes extending to human resources management (e.g. measuring response personnel exposure in contaminated areas).
In the medium-run area, the range of products in the defence field is very varied. It includes hundreds of units and concerns airplanes, tanks, weapons systems and other vehicles. These products have sectoral habits since the industrialists concerned are often also involved in civil activities. The complexity of managing component configuration or combining them with applicability or variant concepts is their main characteristic. The relationship with production management systems is also fundamental.
Munitions are a typical example of large-scale Defence sector production. Complex and subject to continual technological change, they are very similar to consumer products in the electronics area. As with portable telephones and CD players with a short market life, the PLM characteristics of those products have to do with the search for more component and system reusability. The search for fast and faultless roll-out imposes stronger links with downstream systems.
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