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Levelling up automation in MES faster and more accurately—to ultimately receive faster payment.

Once A&D manufacturers have established MES bringing human capital benefits
this connected base point in a single system,
they can then exploit new and emerging A&D manufacturing, like many other industries, is experiencing a
automation functionalities that unlock further skilled labor shortage. According to Future Aviation Aerospace
intelligent insights and accelerate automation Workforce, the manufacturing industry needs 3.5M workers just for
efforts within their business practices. From an A&D by 2026. This is where a connected MES/ERP solution brings
MES perspective, this can include streamlining human capital benefits.
to improve product quality control and perfor-
mance and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) By improving processes with better feedback on MES data, instead
and historical data-driven work schedules and of having to cut staff, A&D manufacturers can upskill employees for
job completion time to improve accuracy for higher level work while the factory is automated. It’s a win-win from
technical productivity. a change management perspective, as it’s easier to internally sell
a process improvement rather than introducing an army of robots
Also, by combining IoT data with AI/machine onto the factory floor!
learning, manufacturers can improve perfor-
mance based on an array of historical data MES is the key to unlock the potential
observations and transactions.
of A&D 4.0
Further A&D The widespread emergence of Industry 4.0 technologies has finally
advances – improving Defence hit maturity in A&D manufacturing, but its full potential lies in its
Contract Management ability to bring previously inaccessible financial, operational, and
security benefits from the shop floor to the top floor. Getting MES
Another common pain point for A&D man- right is a critical component of A&D 4.0—particularly given the unique
ufacturers is working in the strict regulatory requirements of the A&D industry. For this reason, MES must be an
ecosystem associated with the supply chain embedded part of a wider solution to enable manufacturers to
for the U.S. Department of Defense, with strin- unlock the benefits of A&D 4.0 and vertical integration of manu-
facturing.
gent reporting requirements that are difficult to
manage manually. Here, the benefits of an all-
in-one MES and ERP system are huge. A shipping
order, for example, would automatically go back
to the ERP and then to the Defense Contract
Management module for reporting and pay-
ment. Job done!

Within Defense Contract Management this
streamlined approach between different
operational areas of the business means A&D
manufacturers can get automated reports done
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