Rolls-Royce signs five-year enterprise-wide Aerogility contract

Aerogility team members with Robin Gibbs (third from left), and Andy Eady (fourth from left), from Rolls-Royce

Aerogility announced today a five-year enterprise-wide contract with multinational aerospace and defence company, Rolls-Royce, to supply its AI-based enterprise digital twin solution.

Rolls-Royce utilise the Aerogility solution to develop highly complex forecasts that inform safe and trusted business decisions. The capability is applied across the entire Rolls-Royce value chain, including partners and customers, providing deep insights into asset lifecycles and carbon footprint.

The new deal builds on Aerogility’s relationship with multiple Rolls-Royce divisions, which have used Aerogility’s solution to forecast the outcomes of strategic decisions. This success has been recognised by the Rolls-Royce teams working with Aerogility receiving two awards, the Defence President’s Award, and the Sir Frank Whittle Medal.

Nigel Yard, Head of Defence & OEMs at Aerogility, says: “We’re incredibly proud of this vote of confidence from Rolls-Royce, which lays the groundwork for extending our service across the business. This contract demonstrates the value of both our software and team when it comes to tackling complex forecasting, planning, and decision-making challenges.

Utilising Aerogility, the Rolls-Royce team run multiple ‘what-if’ scenarios in rapid, large scale simulations of the business. This delivers better decision-making for complex asset lifecycle management by quantifying opportunities to improve the performance of the Rolls-Royce services business.

Robin Gibbs, Digital Capability Executive, Rolls-Royce, says: “We’re an organisation with innovation and harnessing the power of the latest technologies at our very core. Aerogility generates meaningful insights into operational forecasts and our collaboration has played an important part in helping us build on our values. Aerogility’s technology offers our teams access to a powerful decision-support tool, ensuring strategic planning and implementation can be made with confidence, enabling us to extend our decision-making capabilities across the business.”