like an engineer re-inventing the process to build bricks anytime a new building is requested.
industry observation, not personal.
There are probably several, all mutually incompatible in some way, and chances are every company picks bits from each to make their own "local" standard (a local standard that gets worked every time the name associated with a C*O title changes).
Sometimes we are not in a position to control the constant wheel evolution and just have to get on with it & accept the paycheck.
shouldn't there be a work order processing standard solution for aerospace by now?
I'm sure there is. Just like there are blog, website, & CMS standard solutions. And plenty of people using them. I never see them because those people would never call me. Like many other programmers here, I imagine, we only see the customers who need something custom, almost always for good reason.
asking cause 28 years is an eternity in regards of IT - or at least that's what we hear day in, day out.
I wouldn't choose PICK for a brand new project today, but as Ed says, there's life in the old dog yet...