Matthew Reilly, June Kobayashi, Paul Kepinski (Northrop Grumman)
Keywords
PLE;Product Line Engineering;PLM;Product Lifecycle Management;Digital Thread;Interoperability;Component-Based Design;Modularity;MOSA;Reuse
Abstract
A product line approach can be seamlessly applied across proposals, development, production, and sustainment. This is already resulting in faster times to market and reduced costs, but there is even greater potential still to unlock through Digital Threads. All this promise is contingent on one central question: Can our tools pass data across all disciplines from engineering to business to production to supply chain?