Experienced aerospace and defense leader to guide NLign through its next phase of growth and expand the impact of its Digital Twin–Driven Asset Intelligence platform.

BLUE ASH, Ohio — September 1, 2026

NLign, a leader in Digital Twin Intelligence for mission-critical assets, today announced the appointment of Andrew Tingley as Chief Executive Officer. Tingley will lead NLign as the company accelerates its growth across the aerospace and defense markets and expands the role its technology plays in connecting manufacturing, inspection, engineering, and sustainment data across the asset lifecycle.

Tingley brings a combination of aerospace and defense industry experience, strategic leadership, and military service to NLign. Prior to joining the company, he served with McKinsey & Company, where his work included helping aerospace and defense organizations address complex operational, manufacturing, supply chain, and strategic challenges. Earlier in his career, Tingley served in the U.S. Navy, giving him firsthand perspective on the importance of readiness, reliability, and effective decision-making in mission-critical environments.

“Andrew joins NLign at an important point in our evolution,” said Tom Sharp, Senior Advisor, Co-Founder and former CEO. “Our customers are increasingly looking for ways to connect the enormous amount of data generated across manufacturing and sustainment and turn it into better, faster decisions. Andrew understands both the operational challenges facing aerospace and defense and what it takes to scale technology businesses that solve those challenges. We believe he is the right leader to take NLign into its next chapter.”

NLign provides organizations with a visual system of operational truth by connecting inspection results, conformance information, manufacturing data, maintenance history, and other operational information directly to digital models of individual assets. By bringing together traditionally disconnected data, NLign helps engineering, quality, manufacturing, and sustainment teams identify risk, accelerate decisions, reduce rework, improve traceability, and increase asset availability.

The appointment comes as aerospace and defense organizations face growing pressure to increase production, improve fleet readiness, address workforce constraints, leverage AI, and extract greater value from their digital engineering investments. NLign is positioned at the intersection of these priorities, extending the value of existing PLM, MES, MRO, ERP, and other enterprise systems by connecting operational data to the asset itself.

“NLign products can deliver tremendous benefits for our customers,” said Tingley. “We are at a time when the aerospace and defense industry needs solutions that can reduce total end-item build times and reduce costs from quality and rework, and NLign stands uniquely positioned to do that. We can bridge the gaps in our customers’ production and sustainment digital threads in a way that stands alone today. I’m excited to join this talented team and scale our value for customers across the industry.”

Tingley’s appointment builds on more than 15 years of NLign collaboration with leading aerospace and defense organizations. The company’s technology has been deployed across aircraft manufacturing and sustainment environments, helping organizations transform fragmented inspection and quality data into actionable intelligence tied directly to the physical asset.

Under Tingley’s leadership, NLign will focus on expanding adoption of its platform, deepening relationships with aerospace and defense OEMs, operators, sustainment organizations, and technology partners, and continuing to advance its Digital Twin–Driven Asset Intelligence capabilities.

“NLign’s opportunity is bigger than simply improving an individual inspection or engineering workflow,” Tingley added. “It is about creating a trusted digital thread across the lifecycle of mission-critical assets so that everyone—from the technician on the floor to the engineering authority to senior leadership—can make decisions from the same operational truth. That translates to more aircraft uptime, greater mission readiness rates, lower costs of poor quality, and faster production rates.”

NLign announced an OEM agreement with Siemens enhancing customers’ ability to connect engineering, manufacturing, and sustainment data.

BLUE ASH, OH, UNITED STATES, JUNE 2, 2026  EINPRESSWIRE.COM

NLign, a leader in Digital Twin–Driven Asset Intelligence for high-risk, high-value assets, today announced the successful execution of an OEM agreement with Siemens Digital Industries Software. This agreement establishes native integration of NLign’s platform within Teamcenter, enhancing customers’ ability to seamlessly connect engineering, manufacturing, and sustainment data within a unified digital thread.

 

“This agreement represents a major step forward in delivering on the promise of the digital twin intelligence,” said Pete Forno, Vice President of Sales at NLign. “By integrating directly into Teamcenter, NLign enables organizations to move beyond disconnected data so every quality event, engineering decision, and maintenance action can be understood in the context of the asset itself.”

The integration addresses a critical gap in today’s digital transformation efforts: the inability to operationalize digital twins with real-world, in-service data. NLign enhances Siemens’ ecosystem by bringing a precise, spatially grounded layer of intelligence that connects quality, manufacturing, and sustainment workflows in a way that existing enterprise systems alone cannot achieve.

KEY CAPABILITIES ENABLED THROUGH THE OEM AGREEMENT INCLUDE:

• Model-Based Non-Conformance Management: Visualize and resolve quality issues directly on the digital model-based asset with precise spatial significance
• Accelerated MRB and Disposition Cycles: Reduce cycle times by providing full context across engineering, manufacturing, and sustainment
• Closed-Loop Quality Across Lifecycle: Connect manufacturing data with in-service maintenance insights to prevent repeat defects
• Improved Operational Readiness: Enable faster fault isolation and more confident decision-making for high-risk assets

Organizations leveraging this integrated solution can expect significant improvements in data visibility, reduction in rework and repeat defects, and measurable gains in asset availability and mission readiness.

“This partnership reinforces Siemens’ commitment to delivering a comprehensive digital enterprise solution,” said Zvi Feuer, Senior Vice President of Digital Manufacturing at Siemens Digital Industries Software. “NLign’s capabilities bring a new dimension of operational intelligence to our customers, strengthening the connection between the digital and physical worlds.”

The OEM agreement positions NLign and Siemens to jointly support customers across aerospace and defense, energy, transportation, and other industries where asset performance, safety, and lifecycle visibility are mission critical.

Learn more about the partnership from Henri Thevenot, Industry Strategy Leader for Aerospace & Defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software, here.

ABOUT SIEMENS DIGITAL INDUSTRIES SOFTWARE

Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware, and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Siemens’ software and the comprehensive digital twin enable companies to optimize their design, engineering, and manufacturing processes to turn today’s ideas into the sustainable products of the future.