The problem you recognise
Five suppliers. Five BOM formats. Five part-numbering schemes. Five effectivity conventions. Someone reconciles them manually before every programme milestone review. That person is the single point of failure for your entire supplier integration function.
SECRET Teamcenter cannot share data with an OFFICIAL Clarity instance without a controlled exchange mechanism. The current mechanism is email and USB sticks — two human decision points, no audit trail, no classification integrity check, no bilateral change record.
This is a 30-year programme. The decision made in 2031 must be answerable without the original engineering team, without the original tooling, and without the institutional memory that walked out when three senior engineers retired last year.
Your legacy PLM lock-in — Teamcenter, Windchill, DOORS — represents significant sunk investment. You are not willing to rip it out. But the gaps between systems are multiplying, and every gap is a reconciliation cycle.
What Clarity does for you
Diode and Airlock Connectors — cross-classification digital thread exchange. Diode and Airlock are the only mechanism in commercial MBSE that supports structured cross-classification exchange with three independent enforcement layers, joint ownership policy, and a bilateral CrossDomainTraceLink audit trail. AUKUS and Five Eyes operational. SECRET-to-OFFICIAL exchange produces a CrossDomainTraceLink record on both sides simultaneously. There is no unilateral transfer. No USB stick. No email attachment.
16 BOM views on one CI graph — zero shadow items. Every configuration item exists once on the Clarity CI graph. 16 BOM views — functional, physical, allocated, operational, and twelve others — are graph queries against the same single item. No shadow items maintained in separate trees. No phantom assemblies in one BOM that do not exist in another. No reconciliation spreadsheet. When a supplier delivers an updated part, the update propagates to all 16 views simultaneously.
Orchestrator posture — sits above existing PLM without rip-and-replace. Clarity does not replace Teamcenter or Windchill. It sits above them, consuming their outputs via Diode adapters, and providing the harmonised digital thread that the prime needs across the supplier network. The strangler pattern runs on your timeline. Legacy systems continue operating; Clarity becomes the cross-programme truth surface.
BOM truth validation — six automated quality checks per interface boundary. Every supplier BOM imported into Clarity is validated against the Interface Control Document before promotion. Contested items are blocked. Authority-weighted DeZolve traversal evaluates each claim against the programme baseline before it is accepted. The reconciliation meeting still happens — but the agenda is the blocked items, not the full BOM.
Why this matters specifically to you
- Supplier integration failure — five-supplier programmes with inconsistent BOM formats and no shared baseline produce 12–20 reconciliation cycles per milestone; each cycle consumes 2–4 engineering weeks; across a 30-year programme, the cumulative cost exceeds the platform cost by two orders of magnitude
- Cross-classification incident — an uncontrolled transfer of classified programme data — even one — is an existential security event; USB-stick and email exchange mechanisms do not provide the audit trail required to demonstrate controlled transfer at an ASD ISM review
- Long-lifecycle traceability — when the auditor asks in 2040 why a structural design decision was made in 2028, the answer must be available without the original team; Clarity’s open JSON format and immutable decision records are readable without a Clarity licence in perpetuity
- PLM vendor lock-in — proprietary PLM formats that cannot be exported without the original licence are a data sovereignty risk on classified programmes; Clarity’s open schema eliminates this dependency
How it works
- Supplier BOM ingestion. Each supplier delivers their BOM in their native format. Clarity’s Diode adapters ingest and normalise against the programme’s ICD. Six automated quality checks fire at every boundary. Contested items generate a resolution workflow.
- Cross-classification exchange. Diode handles SECRET-to-OFFICIAL transfers. Airlock handles OFFICIAL-to-SECRET and multi-nation exchanges. Every transfer produces bilateral CrossDomainTraceLink records. No human decision point outside the policy-defined workflow.
- 16-view CI graph. The harmonised BOM is stored once on the CI graph. Views are generated as graph queries — functional, physical, allocated, operational, and programme-management overlays. Any view can be snapshotted at any baseline.
- Orchestrator above the stack. Teamcenter and Windchill continue as source systems. Clarity ingests their outputs, resolves conflicts, and maintains the programme-level digital thread. The prime’s existing tool investment is preserved; the harmonisation problem is solved above it.
Your entry path
Enterprise evaluation — AUKUS and Five Eyes classified programmes, multi-supplier prime integrators.
We work through direct enterprise sales and Australian NV1/NV2 cleared partner networks. Contact us to discuss programme classification level, existing PLM stack, and cleared deployment requirements.
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For AUKUS and Five Eyes classified programme requirements, we can route introductions through Australian cleared partner networks. Mention your classification context in your initial message.
Read more
- Diode and Airlock Connectors — cross-classification digital thread exchange architecture in depth
- Sixteen BOM Views on One CI Graph — the CI graph architecture and all 16 BOM view types
- The Orchestrator — and the Lightweight Replacement — the orchestrator posture above existing PLM stacks
- Sovereign Compliance for the 14 Eyes Nations — regulatory and sovereignty framework for Five Eyes programmes
- Standards coverage — ASD ISM, ITAR, EAR, CMMC, and Five Eyes standards