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A Unique Understanding of Aerospace & Defense 

State of the Aerospace and Defense Industry

Today, more than ever before, Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers require specific functionality in order to address the very complex and diverse requirements of A&D in a highly competitive and demanding industry that dictates reduced lead times, cost containment and efficient management of resources in order to successfully compete for government and commercial contracts. Generic enterprise software vendors that ‘adapted’ their software for A&D have fallen short of meeting the unique requirements of the A&D industry, also, the lack of vendor and software agility has caused this sector to become underserved, including trading partners in the extended supply chain.

Cubicorp’s Background in the Aerospace and Defense Sector

Cubicorp’s experienced professionals and its enterprise software, CubicTM ERP / MES / WMS have their heritage in A&D. The software was initially developed for the A&D market, with its core focus on A&D best of breed functionality and ETO best practices; therefore, Cubic solutions are the perfect fit for manufacturers in this sector. Furthermore, Cubicorp has a large A&D customer base and through its track record of successful deployments has demonstrated its superiority in this industry. Cubicorp research and development is constantly influenced by the needs of its customers, as well as by the direction it gets from its advisory panel of A&D veterans and experts. 

Cubicorp’s Installed Base within Aerospace and Defense

Products manufactured by A&D customers using Cubic software solutions include: 

  • Fighter aircraft
  • Helicopters
  • Drones
  • Heavy and light artillery systems
  • Electro-optical systems
  • Missile systems
  • Armored vehicles
  • Rapid fire machine guns
  • Assault rifles 
  • Hand guns
  • Radar systems
Complexity and Compliance of Aerospace and Defense
A&D manufacturers face the ongoing challenges of compliance with government procedures, regulations and guidelines, lengthy projects, complexity of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Bills of Materials (BOM), and rapid engineering production changes, to name a few. In addition, stringent security and the classified nature of many of their products place an additional burden on their requirements. In order to be competitive, current and prospective government contractors must ensure that their enterprise solutions conform to the stringent government acquisition, management and reporting rules, such as DPAS, EVMS and MMAS. Cubic enterprise software provides the requisite controls and capabilities for compliance with these and other government mandated regulations, procedures and guidelines.

Contract Management and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

The full range of contract and project functionality of Cubic is essential for A&D manufacturers to successfully administer and complete a contract, including project management, project labor and material costing. The WBS can have multiple levels to allow for a very detailed or simple structure depending on customer practices and needs:
  • Unlimited user-defined WBS levels
  • Drill Down capabilities
  • Project management
  • Project/Contract invoicing
    • Milestone billing
    • Progress billing
    • Advance payments
    • Comprehensive cost of sales declaration rules
  • Project Tracking, Costing and Reporting
  • User-defined Material and Labor resources
  • Budget to Actual comparisons (BCWS to ACWP)
Engineering Change Management

One of the biggest challenges to a manufacturer, especially of complex products, is presented by the large number of engineering change proposals (ECP) that frequently occur in the A&D industry. Moreover, these engineering changes often occur in rapid succession over a short span of time. The flexibility of the engineering release and change control process provided by Cubic solutions accelerates communication, approval and distribution of these releases and changes, and ensures timely and accurate notification to all parties involved. Some of these features include:
  • Blueprint Specific ECP with workflow
  • ECP by Effective Date or End-item Serial Number within project/contract
  • Integration with CAD for BOM Creation
  • Full Lot/Serial Control throughout the product lifecycle
  • As-built traceability to the referenced designator 
Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) With Cubicorp

By effectively investing in the aftermarket service of maintenance, repair and overhaul of the complex, high cost assemblies typically produced in this industry, A&D manufacturers can generate additional revenue and profits. The Cubic software solutions enable manufacturers to tap into this lucrative market with the following features:
  • Ability to maintain MRO costs through WBS
  • Support for tear down and rebuild processes (Strip and Build)
  • Provision of Quotation of MRO to be performed
  • Management of Retrofit process to the newest production specification
  • Full Audit Trail of all product history
Other Key Aerospace and Defense Functionality
Additionally, A&D manufacturers require flexible product configuration, unique Material Requirement Planning (MRP) features, efficient Inventory management and Configuration and Product Lifecycle Management. Features include:
  • Real-time global MRP, or by project group, project or part
  • Separate build and repair routings by part
  • Simulations and Scenario capability 
  • Generic or project-specific BOM
  • Common and complex Commingling of Inventory
  • Inclusion of customer-supplied Inventory
  • Planning for material levels based on production and attrition 
  • Tail Number Effectivity for revision control and master scheduling
  • Full DPAS control down to the order line level
Cubic Data Retrieval and Reporting Capabilities

The visibility of data from beginning to end ensures that those with a ‘need to know’ will be able to assess the financial and on-time performance (within the general ledger and the project work breakdown structure), resource availability, procurement commitments and production throughout the life cycle of the contract. The following form part of the Decision Support System and are used in the analysis of mission-critical data. 
  • Quick-QueryTM user-definable Reports
  • Planner/Buyer Analysis Tools
  • Data Warehousing and Retrieval
  • Graphical Analytical Tools
  • Executive Information System (EIS)
  • Online Data Export to Desktop Tools
Generic Features of Cubic Solutions

Although Cubic software was initially developed for the A&D industry, it is a comprehensive enterprise software package with the following high-level features:
  • Integrated Enterprise Functionality
  • Real-time Credible Information
  • Business Process-driven Architecture (Blueprinted)
  • Business Rules by Division / Project / Trading Partner / Product / Part
  • Role-based Functionality integrated with the Security Module
  • Business Process Modeler
  • Fully Workflow-enabled application
  • Full Logging and Audit Trail capability
  • Powerful Data Export capability
  • Integrated Document / Knowledge Management
  • Application integrated with Microsoft desktop tools

Flexibility and Scalability of Cubic

The highly scalable nature of Cubic enterprise software allows those A&D manufacturers whose operations include both commercial products and government contracts, to implement the product across the entire business enterprise or within one or more divisions only. Additionally, Cubic supports any combination of engineering, mixed-mode manufacturing and project-driven environments. Blueprints facilitate the mapping and automation of collaborative technology solutions between the OEM and its extended supply chain of trading partners, and also determine their level of participation. 

Business Benefits of Cubic Solutions

These are some of the major benefits of deploying a Cubic solution: 

  • Reduced implementation cycle – Reduced costs, reduced opportunity loss, reduced productivity loss, minimal disruption, rapid ROI
  • Scripted / automated upgrade path – Reduced costs, reduced opportunity loss, reduced productivity loss, minimal disruption, rapid ROI
  • Low cost system operation – Reduced hardware costs, reduced software costs, reduced maintenance costs, reduced HR utilization, rationalize legacy systems 
  • Knowledge transfer during implementation – Builds core competency of Subject Matter Experts within customer base, empowerment / self-sufficiency of end-user
  • Visibility of credible information – Improved accountability, mitigation of risk, proactive decision support process, efficient operations
  • Business modeler – In-flight organizational changes without disruption

Cubicorp – the Solution for Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing

Due to its focus on A&D functionality and the flexibility of Cubic enterprise software, Cubicorp is able to provide low maintenance, state-of-the-art reliable solutions to meet the industry-specific needs of Aerospace and Defense contractors.

This fact allows Aerospace and Defense contractors to focus on their core business thereby increasing efficiency, productivity and profitability.

With all of the advantages addressed here, the choice of system for the A&D industry has been made simple – Cubic! 

Cubicorp looks forward to addressing your challenges.