Market offer

Saab Aerotech is Sweden’s leading supplier of integrated support solutions. Saab Aerotech offers a broad range of services and products for cost-effective support for systems throughout their entire life cycle. The company offers its skills and competences globally to customers within defence, civil aviation and civil security – everywhere that high demands are placed on function and availability.  Saab Aerotech’s support solutions are also integrated into the Saab Group’s product programs.

Customized support solutions

For Saab Aerotech every customer is unique and the customers’ requirements vary depending on their own resources and prerequisites. In addition to this all systems have different requirements for support depending on the systems’ complexity, use and requirements for availability. Due to the fact that Saab Aerotech operates in all phases of the systems’ life cycles all customers’ requirements can be fulfilled. The requirements can be everything from total obligations with requirements for availability to an individual service such as a maintenance solution, test equipment, repair of equipment or technical support.

Service and product portfolio

Saab Aerotech’s range includes services and products during the entire life cycle of a system. Depending on the phase in which the systems are and the users’ requirements for function and availability, different types of services are required for the systems. Saab Aerotech has a broad range of services for every phase. Due to the fact that the company operates during the entire life cycle the practical experience from systems in operation is used to create new solutions or functions, thereby keeping the customer’s costs and investments to the lowest possible level.

Saab Aerotech’s offer can include everything from an obligation during a part of the life cycle to a total obligation for a system during the entire life cycle.

Saab Aerotech’s offer divided according to the phases in the system life cycle is described below.

 

• Specification & development

Prior to the decision to acquire a new platform or equipment type, customers are often involved in a long pre-study process of requirement definition and development.  The Specification and Development Services offered by Saab Aerotech comprise products and services aimed at meeting customers’ needs for specialist competence in the areas of development, planning and definition of future requirements as well as the capability to provide a number of tools that directly support the customer decision making process leading to the initial and detailed specification of a new capability or requirement.

 

• Preparation & integration

Achieving an initial operating capability is a major milestone in the process to add a new operational capability into service.  Saab Aerotech offers products and services designed to streamline the entire pre-planning and staging process leading to the initial operational integration of a new capability, platform or system.

• Operational optimisation

Once a new capability, system or platform has been fully integrated into operation, the need is to maximize efficiency and mission effectivity while at the same time minimizing cost.  Potential problems and operational issues as well as potential areas for further improvement need to be identified early and proactively addressed in order provide maximum benefit. Quality and Safety are also important factors that do not allow compromise. In this area, Saab Aerotech offers a large range of products and services to meet these requirements.

 

• Platform & system enhancement

Improvements, modifications and upgrades are constant requirements over the lifetime of a system or other equipment in order to improve reliability, expand the operational envelope and not least of all maximize return of investment in the hardware. Saab Aerotech offers a number of products specifically aimed at this need.

 

• End-life management

 

Decommissioning and disposal of obsolete equipment is a complex process.  Not only must all safety, security and environmental guidelines and regulations be strictly followed but the process itself must be handled as cost effectively as possible. Saab Aerotech has the capability and resources to handle all aspects of the end-life management process.

 

• Special products and services

Saab Aerotech is able to meet specific customer needs for highly specialized products and services in a number of technical areas. From ruggeddized electronics and special application sensors to specialized flight operations to support, Saab Aerotech is able to provide the product and integration capability to meet the requirement.