Tata Consultancy Services Shows Broad Footprint Across Aerospace and Defense

Summary

Recently, Dr. Sandeep (Sandy) Muju, Aerospace Industry Advisor at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) briefed ARC Advisory Group on the company’s Aerospace and Defense (A&D) business and the broad range of services and products it offers to this industry. TCS, one of the world’s largest engineering and technology services companies with over $20 billion in annual revenues and over 1,800 clients in 55 countries, provides services to many manufacturing sectors.

The company’s A&D business spans the entire aero lifecycle, from airframe design and manufacturing companies and aero engine OEMs; to airline carrier operations, airports, air navigation, maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), and the aero aftermarket. As ARC learned, in addition to offering engineering and technological support across the A&D lifecycle, TCS has positioned itself to be able to offer these services to an evolving A&D landscape.

TCS Offers a Fully Integrated Services Portfolio Across the A&D Product and Business Process Lifecycle

The A&D landscape is changing significantly.  Despite recent challenges, the commercial aircraft order backlog remains strong, with orders extending well into the next decade.  The number of aircraft going into service is forecasted to more than double in the next two decades.  The sector is also modernizing its systems to a fully digitalized design/build/maintain environment.  More-over, A&D companies are busy designing the next generation of air-frame structures, which will involve new materials, advanced structural concepts, and new modes of power, such as electric engines.   And finally, aircraft makers will have to reimagine core IT architectures and processes as they implement the industrial IoT, cloud-based systems, and the intelligent edge for their production systems.

The A&D industry is moving rapidly into the 21st century with a clear focus on applying emerging technologies to both aircraft design and production, meeting global transportation needs to move people and goods, and securing and defending national interests. Air taxis, delivery drones, revisiting supersonic travel, radical new airframe structures, and new frontiers of space exploration are all on the horizon.  Over the next few decades the A&D industry will be the driving force behind how we address the potential of new technologies and market trends and the new realities that will emerge to change both the industry and its users.

In the A&D manufacturing sector, we see a robust adoption of fabrication technologies like additive manufacturing (AM) and the use of material science in conjunction with AM to introduce next-generation airframes.  These are changing the fundamental structure of aircraft. AM parts are creating new business processes that span OEMs, MRO, and spares. Additionally, A&D companies are leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain and the Cloud to develop new business processes for AM adoption.

Demand for military A&D equipment is on the rise as governments across the globe focus on military upgrades and fleet modernization due to increasing global security concerns. The uncertainty and complexity of the international security environment worldwide is likely to boost global defense spending over the next five years and well into this decade.

As ARC Advisory Group learned, TCS A&D stands poised to partner with the A&D industry by providing robust engineering, technical, and business systems and services designed to help customers adopt the entire range of technologies across aircraft design and manufacturing.

TCS brings a comprehensive engineering and industrial services portfolio to the A&D sector. The company can draw from solutions and services across its portfolio from other industries, such as automotive, machinery & process, and high-tech & telecom. For the A&D industry, its integrated, full-services portfolio includes product development, plan solutions, and service transformation. When it comes to engineering, the company’s A&D Centers of Excellence (CoE) stand out. These include one each for Aero Structures, Aero Engines & Derivatives, Aero Systems, Aircraft Interiors, Manufacturing Engineering, and Avionics.

TCS Helps Aerospace and Defense Companies Make the Digital Journey

TCS offers several custom-tailored solution sets designed to help A&D companies make the digital transformation. The company’s Business & Technology Services portfolio offers a full range of digital services and solutions. For Industrial IoT, these include solutions for connected devices, Industry 4.0, digital twin, and managed services.  The Cloud infrastructure offers public, private, and hybrid cloud services.  TCS also offers cybersecurity for cloud computing, mobility, and edge IoT, blockchain consulting, and quality engineering.

TCS appears to be well-positioned to deliver a digital strategy tailored for the A&D manufacturing businesses. Using a strategic focus approach for specific technology areas that include enterprise and production connectivity for IoT, cloud infrastructure, Big Data, analytics, AI, ML, and the intelligent edge, shop floor automation, augmented reality, and cybersecurity, TCS can offer a comprehensive digital thread across the A&D lifecycle.

Conclusion

TCS Aerospace offers a comprehensive set of solutions with the breath, depth, and domain expertise that reflects its long-time presence in the A&D industry. Because of this lengthy and ongoing business and technology relationship with aerospace, TCS appears to be uniquely positioned to help and partner with its A&D customers to make the digital transformation by leveraging its digital consulting and Business 4.0 framework in addition to a full suite of tools and capabilities.

As the A&D industry transitions to the  emerging  technologies that will help spawn the next generation of aircraft and intelligent production systems, TCS aerospace will be there to partner with its A&D customers to help succeed in this transformation.

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Keywords: Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Industry, Digital Transformation, Commercial Aircraft, Defense and Military, Digital Thread, Digital Twin, ARC Advisory Group.