Engineering Challenges in Aerospace and Defence
Long programme lifecycles
Aircraft and defence platforms remain in service for decades, making engineering knowledge, documentation and configuration management critical.
Complex supply chains
Coordinating OEMs, suppliers and partners requires secure collaboration and complete visibility across programmes.
Compliance and traceability
Every engineering decision, material and manufacturing process must be documented to satisfy demanding quality and regulatory requirements.
Sustainment and obsolescence
As platforms age, teams need efficient ways to identify, redesign and manufacture replacement parts while preserving engineering intent.
Engineering Decisions Disappear
Critical design discussions happen in meetings, emails and chat - but rarely become part of the engineering record.
How Aerospace and Defence Teams Benefit
Built for the demands of aerospace and defence programmes
From initial requirements through manufacturing, sustainment and future upgrades, Authentise helps aerospace and defence teams connect engineering knowledge, improve traceability and deliver complex programmes with confidence.
Preserve engineering knowledge
Protect critical design decisions and make them accessible throughout decades of programme life.
Strengthen the digital thread
Connect requirements, engineering, manufacturing and quality data in one traceable workflow.
Collaborate across the supply chain
Share the right information with internal teams and trusted partners while maintaining control.
Work with your existing ecosystem
Integrate with the engineering and manufacturing systems you already rely on, without replacing them.
Engineering Decisions Disappear
Critical design discussions happen in meetings, emails and chat - but rarely become part of the engineering record.
Solutions for Aerospace and Defence
Aerospace and defence programmes often span multiple teams, suppliers and decades of service. The solutions below are our most common recommendations, but every deployment is tailored to the specific requirements of your programme, organisation and security environment.
Captures decisions
Capture engineering intent automatically from meetings, conversations and documents.
Whisper preserves the reasoning behind every decision, creating trusted knowledge that teams - and AI - can actually use.
Automates workflows
Create flexible digital workflows that eliminate repetitive manual tasks and keep production moving.
Flows connects systems, people and processes to ensure every job follows a consistent path from start to finish.
Connects conversations
Keep engineering discussions connected to the work they relate to.
Threads links conversations to projects, helping teams collaborate without losing valuable context.
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Stores knowledge
Store design data alongside the engineering context that gives it meaning.
Make previous projects, decisions and expertise easy to find and reuse.
No two programmes are the same. Whether you're managing engineering knowledge, digital spares, production workflows or complex supply chains, we'll help you identify the combination of Authentise solutions that best fits your operational and compliance requirements.
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Aerospace and Defence Laaders
99%
Reduction in Manual Tracking
Advanced powder and consumables tracking that fills the gap ERP can't.
"Fills the hole that ERP and MES can't."
— Alana Mally, Vast Aerospace
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Saved on Each RFQ
One system to manage quotes, production, and delivery end to end.
"We wanted one system to manage it all."
— Patrick Gannon, Ricoh
99%
Pre-Production Time Saved
Average pre-production dropped from 12 hours to 45 minutes.
"From 12 hours to 45 minutes."
— Christina Roethemeyer, Boeing
DIU/AF Materiel Command (NFAC) OTA
✓ Prime contractor for the design & production of blades for the world’s largestwind tunnel at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC)
✓ One of the first software companies ever to be made DOD prime for part delivery
✓ Coordinated 50+ subcontractors + AF personnel leveraging Authentise software, speeding up complex design process over 6 months.
✓ Captured 115+ conversations, 140+ documents, 150+ Links
✓ Generated complex insights with data acquired, e.g. AI Risk Assessment
