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Digital Transformation in Aerospace and Defense

The B-52 bomber requires a long lifecycle management that NI’s flexible hardware and software platform can sustain.

Testing and test data play a vital role in delivering on an organization’s goals of quality, reliability, and operational efficiency. As organizations evolve digitally, so too must their approach to automated test and data management. Partner with us to better integrate design and test through model-based test engineering, and improve how your organization collects, manages, analyzes, and extracts valuable insights from test and product data across the enterprise.

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Model-Based Test Engineering

​Optimize Test with a Digital Depot

​This transformative approach unifies test equipment, data, and processes by way of the digital depot and digital production facility. Organizations that adopt a digital depot are ideally positioned to perform product lifecycle management and embrace modern practices like model-based systems engineering.​

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Thales overcomes standardization

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Digital Twins Blur the Lines between Physical and Digital Test Engineering

Working with virtual reality to create digital twins and threads offers nearly endless possibilities that companies are just beginning to take advantage of.
HENSOLDT Digital Transformation​

Digital Transformation Is on the Radar

Collaboration efforts between NI and Elettronica GmbH are facilitating a digital transformation of test and evaluation in the aerospace industry.

Transform your Processes and Workflows: Change the Value of Test

Validation teams have been asked to reduce the cost of test for a long time. Learn how to improve automation so bottlenecks can be eliminated.

Validating Models

Building Confidence in Models

Advances in computing, AI, and modeling tools are helping turn design promises into reality. By linking models with testing and simulation, we can boost confidence in their accuracy and performance. ​

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Systems and Data Management

​SystemLink Test Management Software

Thales overcomes standardization

NI SystemLink™ software is a trusted, centralized platform that accelerates digital transformation by managing and optimizing test systems and data. It simplifies software deployment and system management, and it enhances operational efficiency by ensuring uptime and utilization. SystemLink enables you to collect, store, access, manage, and analyze test data across your facility or enterprise, providing insights into products and processes that help maximize quality, reliability, and mission readiness.

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Customer Success with NI Data and Systems Management

Thales Accelerates Digital Transformation Efforts with NI Platform

​Using the NI ecosystem of PXI and NI software, Thales developed an automated, standardized test strategy that reduces test time while increasing quality. Gain insights into their approach to digital transformation, data, and personnel, along with their strategies to maximize business impact.

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HENSOLDT Improves Yield with SystemLink​

German defense company HENSOLDT needed a holistic solution for automation and standardization to enable digital transformation and better leverage data. A maintenance-intensive in-house solution drove them to a more efficient approach.​

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​Raytheon Improves Quality, Reliability, and Efficiency​

Raytheon delivers flawless, mission-critical defense systems, where lives depend on precision. With NI SystemLink, they streamline test data and equipment management to ensure unmatched reliability and readiness.​

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Become Tech-Forward with a Data-Informed Approach

Data-driven companies grow about 30 percent faster than their peers. Understanding the five vectors of data helps uncover key relationships for a clear picture of your business.
HENSOLDT Digital Transformation​

Drive Efficiency and Reduce Risk in Validation with a Solid Data Foundation

Let’s discuss how data can help not only ensure quality, control cost, and meet timelines but also provide insights to other parts of the organization in minutes, rather than days or weeks.
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Actionable Insights Demand Quality Data and Intentionality

It’s time to rethink how we gather data. To derive quality insights, we must demand intentionality, fund the effort, champion the direction, and skillfully execute how it’s gathered and the metadata that’s gathered alongside it.

Automated Test

Fast Electronics Functional Test

NI software-connected automated test systems help test engineers accelerate digital transformation efforts through the user-defined automation of tests and test data. The NI modular, customizable platform with data at its center allows you to keep pace with rapidly evolving product requirements and mission objectives.​

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Thales overcomes standardization

An Agile Process for Delivering LRU Test Systems

​System on Demand (SoD) accelerates test system delivery using modular components and parallel tasks. Unlike linear models, SoD adapts to changing requirements, enabling faster integration and validation for hardware and embedded systems.​

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Thales overcomes standardization

Leveraging Automated Test to Enable Digital Transformation

​A&D companies worldwide are embracing digital transformation to boost efficiency, reduce risk, and stay competitive by leveraging advanced computing, connectivity, and analytics across the entire supply chain. ​
HENSOLDT Digital Transformation​

From Data to Decisions: Test Intelligence That Drives Action

AI and edge computing power a unified data ecosystem, turning test data into insights for smarter decisions, improved quality, and faster innovation.
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Research Reveals How Test Can Enhance Product Development

Many teams struggle to manage product quality within shorter and shorter time-to-market windows, but best-in-class test organizations are leading the way.