Solumina Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) by iBase-t delivers new levels of visibility, control, and efficiency to aerospace & defense sustainment. Pulling in data from PLM and ERP systems and integrating seamlessly with Solumina MES, it streamlines the maintenance, repair, and rebuilding of complex systems and units. By replacing paper-based processes and siloed applications with Solumina MRO, sustainment providers gain a powerful set of benefits.
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- Utilize as-designed and as-built specifications to improve planning and execution efficiency
- Streamline workflows, traceability, and efficiency
- Embed quality across your operations
- Manage maintenance execution in a consistent, repeatable way to minimize risk and downtime
- Standardize and enforce best practices
- Break down siloes and weave disparate digital threads into a digital cloth
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Digitally transform your sustainment execution with Solumina MRO.
MRO is critical for complex systems and units, which come with a lifetime of scheduled maintenance, repairs, upgrades, or overhauls. However, managing MRO execution in this industry comes with unique challenges – from tracking thousands of parts to keeping up with manual revisions and ensuring regulatory compliance. Traditional paper-based processes simply aren’t up to the challenge.
Solumina MRO software eliminates the pains associated with paper, centralizing all information in a single digital platform that improves data accuracy and reduces turnaround time. It improves daily MRO operations, enabling continuous improvement by standardizing and enforcing best practices and quality processes. It transforms the tracking of component removal and installation with as-maintained traceability.
An MRO solution creates a digital record of these activities, allowing manufacturers to create a holistic digital cloth from their digital threads. To succeed in weaving a digital cloth that best supports complex manufacturing, particularly when sustainment is critical to program success, manufacturers should look for:
- Ability to share 3D models via STEP and 3D PDF
- Ability to share maintenance materials via standards like S1000D
- Connectivity to leading ERP applications prevalent in MRO industries
- Support for industry service standards such as FAA A, B, C and D Checks
- Ability to handle field-level, depot-level, and factory-level repair/refurbishment sequences
Achieving a more complete digital thread across all involved systems is not always easy. It requires careful planning, investment in the right tools and technologies, and a commitment to change.
Here are some key steps businesses can take to successfully implement digital transformation of MRO operations:
1. Assess your current systems and processes: The first step is to identify areas where digital transformation can have the most significant impact. This may involve conducting a thorough review of your existing MRO operations, including data collection and analysis, asset management, maintenance scheduling, and more.
2. Develop a comprehensive digital strategy: A digital strategy is essential for successful digital transformation. It should include a clear roadmap for implementation, as well as goals and objectives for improving efficiency, reliability, and profitability.
3. Invest in the right tools and technologies: To implement digital transformation, businesses need to invest in software, integration, and even digitally enabled devices such as sensors where warranted. This may require a significant investment upfront, but the long-term benefits can far outweigh the costs.
4. Train your employees: Digital transformation requires a significant cultural shift, and businesses need to invest in training their employees to use new tools and technologies.
5. Monitor and measure your progress: Effective monitoring ensures that digital transformation efforts are having the desired impact. The right systems can help by collecting and analyzing data on key performance indicators such as maintenance costs, asset uptime, and productivity.
While a broad range of industries can benefit from Solumina MRO, it is especially beneficial for critical environments involving complex products.
Major industries that benefit from Solumina MRO include:
Rising demand for air travel, paired with major backlogs in the production of new aircraft, is increasing the need to maintain older aircraft for longer periods. Amid this increased demand, sustainment providers must grapple with strict compliance and quality standards as well as razor-thin profit margins.
To meet the complex demands of sustainment in the aviation industry, you need MRO software designed for these conditions. Solumina MRO helps aviation service providers with:
Complex Disassembly & Reassembly
Repair
Retro-commissioning
Rebuild or Overhaul
Scheduled Maintenance
Supplier Quality Management
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Solumina Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) by iBase-t enables new levels of visibility, productivity, and reliability in the sustainment of complex assets.
In an increasingly competitive industry, Solumina MRO enables sustainment providers to optimize resource management, expedite turnaround times, and record every step for compliance and monitoring. Additional benefits include:
Digital MRO solutions are effective in their own right, but they are strengthened considerably when working within a broadly connected infrastructure that supports integration with the latest emerging technologies – from augmented reality and robotics to artificial intelligence.
Solumina MRO delivers out-of-the-box integration capabilities that allow manufacturers to seize these opportunities and transform the latest technologies into their competitive edge.
The Solumina Manufacturing Operations Platform combines planning and scheduling, resource management, quality management, manufacturing execution and sustainment in a single, integrated system. As a result, complex manufacturers can holistically manage production, quality, MRO, and the associated supply chain.
Solumina MRO is also ready for the future. It provides the infrastructure needed to implement advanced capabilities such as AI, augmented reality, IoT connectivity, and more. In short, Solumina MRO is ready to help power the next generation of Industry 4.0 sustainment.
