System Atlas

Standard architecture: Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Mostly people and process.

Standard architectureThe parts at least half of the organizations in Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing have, as many as 6 of them run all together. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
6
Of their industry
67%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Customers: keeping them
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances

Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.

Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Invariant 4
At least 90% have it
People1
Customers: keeping them
100%
6
Process1
Product or service design
100%
6
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
6
Governance and decision rights
100%
6
Variant 1
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People1
Org structure
33%
2
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $97 a year.

Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $97 a year.

Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

No findings recorded yet.

Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 1000+ people33%
Region
  • United Kingdom33%
  • United States33%
  • Canada17%
  • France17%
Instances
The 6 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $97 a year.