Aerospace and Defense

Aerospace and defense manufacturers look to iBase-t’s expertise to improve control and management of their most complex production processes across the value chain.

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All A&D Industries

Expertise to Simplify Critically Complex Discrete Operations

iBase-t experts are guiding manufacturing leaders in both public and private sectors. With a purpose-built solution for Aerospace and Defense, Solumina works out-of-the-box to a degree that no other system can match across the nuances of the industry. Customers include BAE Systems, Collins Aerospace, General Dynamics, GE Aviation, Gulfstream, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Parker Hannifin, Pratt & Whitney and Textron.

Aerospace & Defense

Aircraft, Unmanned Vehicles, Missile Defense & Armament, Components & Parts, and Tactical & Combat Land Systems

With thousands of parts in every product, precision performance and careful compliance are essential.

Industrial Equipment

Industrial Equipment manufacturers build and maintain the most complicated products and are challenged by price demands, quality, and faster innovation.




Satellite & Space

Space Launch Vehicles, Satellites, and Spacecraft Component Systems

Manufacturers of Space products requires a high level of expertise and quality control to ensure the ability to withstand the extreme conditions of space.

Nuclear

Naval & Commercial Reactors, Weapon Systems, DOE Sites

Tightly regulated, nuclear armament poses many challenges from costly regulatory compliance, safety, and security, to critical quality management.

Shipbuilding

Specialized Vessel Construction, Marine Equipment, Naval Shipbuilding

Shipyards must modernize practices and leverage digital technologies to take operations to new and necessary levels of productivity.

Electronics

Accelerated product lifecycles mean technology obsolescence and the need to continually launch new products to fuel growth.



Accelerate Your Program Deployment

iBase-t brings the A&D experience needed to face numerous challenges including strict regulations, extended suppliers, enablement of skilled talent, and continuous improvement. With an embedded quality management system look to the Solumina Manufacturing Operations Platform to deliver value to your mission and velocity to your program.

Digital Thread Technology to Secure Program Success

The digital thread was spearheaded by the military aircraft industry and a desire to improve performance of programs using digital technology for applying lessons learned on current and upcoming programs.  These concepts are converging with the digital manufacturing and cyber-physical system goals of Industry 4.0. And today the digital thread and a model-based enterprise are increasingly becoming a mandate from the Department of Defense. iBase-t meets these demands a solution that

Benefits

Benefits of Solumina for Aerospace and Defense

Solutions from iBase-t provide an innovative approach to simplifying how complex manufacturing, quality, and MRO processes are managed and improved to accelerate Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing strategies.

Deployment Speed

Ready-to-run functions and pre-configured integration deploy quickly with limited burden on IT resources.

DoD Expertise

Expertise to comply with A&D regulations; FAA compliance to AS9100 regulatory standards like AS9102, AS9131, and AS9121.

Full Traceability

Control and visibility over lot and serial tracked parts for all materials, components, and subassemblies.

Auditing and Reporting

Meet reporting requirements and generate audits to ensure compliance with internal and external standards.

Error Reduction

Work instructions: illustrations, 3D-model animations, videos, slideshows; built-in data collection, signature prompts.

Built-in Quality

Embedded in Solumina, Enterprise Quality Management lets you hard-wire quality procedures in production processes.
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Purpose-built for A&D

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is an enterprise solution that forms the central nervous system of the A&D shop floor, where the world’s most complex products are assembled and tested. Therefore, the decision about which MES to choose deserves special attention.

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Why is a Purpose-built MES Critical for the Aerospace & Defense Industry?

Compliance. Traceability. Functionality. Fit-for-aerospace and defense manufacturing. iBase-t’s Vice President of Aerospace and Defense, Pamela Schweppe, breaks down the need for a solution designed to serve the industry.

User Stories
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“Solumina is foundational for our digital transformation in operations. It’s the connection point between Product Lifecycle Management, IoT and ERP systems.”
Jeff Gleeson, Digital Manufacturing Leader (Former Lockheed Martin Fellow)

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