PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVE
For Immediate Release – February 2002
BAE SYSTEMS STANDARDIZES ON AEGIS WEB–CENTRIC
SOFTWARE FOR PCB ASSEMBLY
PHILADELPHIA, PA – AEGIS Industrial Software announces that BAE
SYSTEMS Avionics at Rochester, the global systems defense and aerospace
company, will implement AEGIS web-centric manufacturing software across
its electronics assembly facilities. BAE SYSTEMS has approved
corporate-wide implementation of AEGIS software for improving
manufacturing productivity and visibility. AEGIS manufacturing software
expedites new product introduction and revision control/changes, creates
a collaborative factory office environment, optimizes assembly
machinery, and disseminates assembly information via the Web to
management and the factory floor.
BAE SYSTEMS Avionics required a single system to streamline the myriad
of tasks involved in transforming basic CAD and BOM data into useful
manufacturing outputs, but also needed collaborative electronic control
and web-based dissemination of the resultant information to the factory.
They selected AEGIS following an evaluation, deployment, and testing
period lasting more than a year in actual production conditions. The
software’s ease of deployment, scalability, CAD and machine interfaces,
and its combination of data preparation, product data management, and
manufacturing execution within a single coherent system deliver a unique
competitive edge for BAE SYSTEMS’ Rochester facilities.
“After a lengthy search for a software solution to a broad set of
manufacturing problems, BAE SYSTEMS chose AEGIS for their unique
web-centric software and their service reputation,” said Jason Sowerby
of BAE SYSTEMS. “Within four days of their engineers’ deployment visit,
we had a web-based paperless system running in our factory, bridging our
machine programming and document generation system directly to the
floor. Months later, our solution continued expanding, and AEGIS proved
a real business partner in our effort to form a more productive factory.
We look forward to the continuing deployment across the BAE SYSTEMS
manufacturing community,” adds Sowerby.
“BAE SYSTEMS approached AEGIS with a well-defined vision of how an
efficient electronics factory should operate, both in the engineering
office, as well as on the floor.” said Jason Spera, AEGIS CEO. “They had
an acute awareness of the control and efficiency problems of new product
introduction, machine management, and the dissemination and tracking of
information on the factory floor. Their vision of one truly integrated
solution, using the Web and one database, to act as the platform for all
of their needs, aligned well with AEGIS’ product design philosophy.”
AEGIS has set the standard for enterprise-level manufacturing
information management by creating TransCollaborative Manufacturing (TCM)
software, an entirely unique category of software. Aegis’ complete
software solution offers scalable CAD/CAM documentation and machine
programming, BOM and revision control, browser-based approval processes,
browser-based paperless documentation and quality management, customer
and supplier integration, and more. These benefits are provided via one
seamless, collaborative system.
BAE SYSTEMS is the truly global systems, defense, and aerospace company,
with more than 100,000 employees and annual sales of around £12 billion
($17 billion). The company offers a global capability in air, land, sea,
and space with a world-class prime contracting ability supported by a
range of key skills. BAE SYSTEMS designs and manufactures civil and
military aircraft, surface ships, submarines, space systems, radar,
avionics, communications, electronics, guided weapon systems, and a
range of other defense products.
For additional information contact:
Shaun Black, Marketing Director
Aegis Industrial Software Corporation
Email: sblack@aiscorp.com
Phone: 714.828.9730