Build stronger bids with engineering-backed cost evidence.
MADE helps proposal teams justify lifecycle cost, availability, safety and maintenance assumptions using model-based analysis — turning early bid concepts into defensible sustainment budgets.
Winning complex programs requires more than a compelling technical solution.
Safety and mission-critical systems are selected on both technical capability and projected total cost of ownership. OEMs must establish, justify and defend lifecycle cost assumptions based on design configuration, usage cycles, operating environments and maintenance approach.
MADE turns proposal assumptions into engineering calculations.
MADE provides a model-based simulation environment that helps proposal teams estimate availability and maintenance cost while generating technical evidence to support the bid.
From concept solution to defensible sustainment budget.
MADE integrates the analyses needed to compare alternate maintenance approaches, validate safety and availability assumptions, and support lifecycle cost forecasts with engineering evidence.
Strengthen the bid with evidence that survives scrutiny.
MADE helps teams move from assumed sustainment costs to traceable, model-based proposal evidence.
Understand cost impacts
Analyse how design configuration, mission profile and operating environment affect lifecycle cost.
Identify risk concurrently
Use model-based workflows to identify and mitigate risks earlier in proposal and concept development.
Validate budget forecasts
Support bid estimates with engineering calculations rather than unsupported assumptions.
Standardise the process
Use structured, automated analysis workflows and consistent data taxonomies across proposal development.
How MADE supports bid and proposal development.
MADE enables rapid modelling of solution functions, risks, reliability and maintenance cost so teams can produce stronger proposal evidence.
Mission Profile Definition
Define how, where and for how long the system is intended to be used.
Environment Loading
Assess how operating environments influence reliability, maintenance demand and lifecycle cost.
Reliability Analysis
Identify reliability drivers and failure behaviour that impact availability and maintenance cost.
Maintenance Cost Estimate
Estimate expected maintenance requirements and budget for the proposed solution.
Validate technical, safety and budget assumptions.
MADE uses a combined simulation model of the asset to compare alternate sustainment operating concepts and support proposal validation.
One model. Multiple proposal-strengthening outputs.
MADE combines modelling, safety and reliability assessment, RAM and PHM capabilities to support bid-stage concept analysis and downstream lifecycle extension.
Modelling
Use cases, functional block diagrams, data quality analysis and critical item analysis.
Safety & Reliability Assessment
Failure diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis, criticality analysis and FMEA / FMECA.
RAM
Maintenance estimates, Reliability Block Diagrams, RCM and reliability allocation.
PHM
Sensor set design, fault detection and isolation, diagnostics optimisation and model-based diagnostic rules.
Trade Studies
Compare alternate design configurations, maintenance approaches and sustainment operating concepts.
Proposal Metrics
Support metrics such as maintenance cost per operating hour, MTBM and lifecycle cost estimates.
A model-based estimation process aligned to concept design.
MADE supports availability and cost projections early enough to shape the bid, while creating models that can extend into design and sustainment analysis.
Analyse proposal risk
Identify and analyse risks and factors that impact safety, availability and lifecycle cost.
- Functional and failure analysis.
- Reliability and availability analysis.
- Critical risk identification.
Validate maintenance approach
Identify and validate the optimal maintenance approach for critical risks.
- Reliability-Centered Maintenance.
- Maintenance action reporting.
- Maintenance cost estimates.
Assess usage and environment
Analyse the impact of alternate usage cycles and operating environments.
- Mission profile definition.
- Environment loading.
- Operational scenario comparison.
Estimate budget impact
Estimate maintenance requirements and budget for the proposed solution.
- Lifecycle cost evidence.
- Maintenance cost per operating hour.
- Bid-stage budget validation.
Download the MADE for Bid & Proposal Development brochure.
See how MADE supports engineering-based sustainment budget calculations, proposal validation, lifecycle cost estimates and model-based trade studies.
Win with proposals backed by engineering evidence.
MADE helps teams connect design concept, mission profile, failure behaviour, maintenance strategy and lifecycle cost into one model-based proposal decision support environment.
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