Aerospace & Defense Engineering Services

Overview

Digital: Fueling the Next Era in Aerospace and Defense

The Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry is at an inflection point as innovations focused on next-gen aircraft, smart manufacturing, mobility as a service, achieving net zero emissions and enhancing operational efficiencies are set to redefine the future of the A&D industry.

With a legacy spanning over three decades as a global engineering and technology partner for the aerospace and defense industry, we leverage next-gen technologies to help our clients in ramping up production, transcending customer experiences and driving continuous innovation.

Digital: Fueling the Next Era in Aerospace and Defense

Domain Expertise

Harnessing Our Engineering and Digital Expertise to Build a Future-Ready A&D

We empower enterprises in not only transforming the products they create and how they produce and maintain them by leveraging our engineering DNA but also accelerate their journey towards a digitally enabled, smart and sustainable future by implementing digital at scale – all while keeping safety and agility at the core of our business.

30+ years

in A&D Engineering

4000+

engineers and SMEs

59

countries

Partner to

8/10 top OEMs

Partner to

8/10 top tier-1 suppliers

7+

ITAR compliant centers in the USA

Accelerate Transformation Across the Aerospace and Defense Ecosystem

From the ground up to the air and into space, our team brings unparalleled expertise in engineering and digital solutions to help our clients expedite their digital transformation journey.

We cater to various A&D sectors, extending comprehensive support to OEMs and Tier 1 companies in both commercial and defense. Our focus is on building secure and reliable platforms through product engineering and digital consultancy. Leveraging our connectivity solutions, we enhance personalized travel experiences and employ real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance to streamline operations for airports, airlines and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MROs). Additionally, we design and develop onboard and ground support equipment for satellite-based systems.

We harness a blend of cloud-native, digital and next-gen solutions to capture the advanced air mobility market, helping our clients push the boundaries of innovation and thrive in the evolving A&D landscape. Our integrated offerings drive efficiencies, enhance experiences and create new revenue streams for clients, ensuring a competitive edge.

Commercial
Defense
Space
Civil Aviation
AAM/eVTOL

Services

Integrated Services to Build Resilient Products and Platforms

Our comprehensive portfolio of service offerings spanning product and digital engineering, next-gen operational technologies and sustainability solutions to accelerate the pace of innovation in aerospace and defense.

Product engineering

Accelerate time to market with end-to-end services covering the entire product lifecycle, spanning across software, mechanical, hardware and VLSI design for new product development and existing product upgrades and sustenance.

Digital engineering

Build resilience and intelligence across products, services and operations with digital engineering solutions harnessing the power of MBE/MBD/MBSE, 5G, cloud, IoT, AI/ML and data, creating value at each stage.

Digital manufacturing

Speed up manufacturing and supply chain transformation with solutions for factory of the future leveraging Industry 4.0, industrial IoT, AI/ML, MES/MOM and digital twins.

Aftermarket

Enhance post-development operational requirements and improve fleet readiness with customized services encompassing technical documentation, repair engineering, field support, asset tracking and predictive maintenance.

Sustainability

Achieve net-zero targets by embracing next-gen solutions in sustainable product engineering, manufacturing and operations to help minimize emissions and environmental impact across the product lifecycle.

Digital Thread

Connected, interoperability solutions to achieve cross-domain visibility and associativity to unlock the value of product data for faster time to market and improved product quality.

Solutions

Our Solutions Powering Smart, Connected and Sustainable Future

HCLTech Adonis

An intelligent acceleration platform to convert legacy (structured or unstructured) aerospace and defense technical manual/publications into ATA, S1000D compliant output

HCLTech DFMPro (Design for Manufacturing Pro)

CAD-integrated design for manufacturing software that helps in identifying and rectifying downstream issues early in the design stage, delivering high-quality designs at lower costs

HCLTech NIO (Net Zero Intelligent Operations)

A real-time solution to monitor, normalize, compare and reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions

HCLTech MPMAccelerate

AI-enabled digital manufacturing engineering on Siemens Teamcenter and Easy Plan platform

HCLTech ECCO (Enterprise Content and Collaboration)

A digital thread framework for visibility and traceability of context-specific information across the enterprise

HCLTech DMA (Digital Maintenance Assistant)

Interactive voice assist powered by cutting-edge AI technologies to improve maintenance crew productivity, reducing turnaround time and enabling submission of feedback reports through voice

Partner Perspectives

“As a leading Technical Publications supplier to Panasonic Avionics, HCLTech has provided superior Technical Publications production capabilities, delivering content on time and with the highest level of quality and accuracy, at a competitive price… HCLTech’s commitment and accommodating nature to our account have helped to reinforce our brand and build strong supplier relations with our customers.”