BAE Systems Sea Systems Group

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BAE Systems Sea Systems Group
BAE SYSTEMS Improves Development Process for new
Type 45 Destroyer Warship

• Company Background
• One of the worlds largest systems, aerospace and
  defense companies with customers in more than 129
  countries
• Sales of 13.1 billion and Order book of 43.8
  billion (Year-End 2001)
• Nearly 120,000 employees
• PTC Solution
• Windchill-based Shared Data Environment (SDE) is
  used for the Type 45 Destroyer Prime Contract
  Office including Product Data Management,
  Workflow, Configuration Management, Change
  Management and Product Visualization
• Results
• Using PTC Solutions has enabled BAE SYSTEMS to
• Establish a real-time collaborative team,
  including its customer and 9 major industrial
  partners
• Effectively control change and configuration of
  the Product through the Design phase and set the
  strategy to support the Program through life
• Enable our team to manage the Program by
  providing visibility at the earliest opportunity
  of the product design and team performance

PTC solutions have helped us realize our vision
of operating a truly virtual team environment
Alistair Kirk, Head of Programme, Type 45 PCO