Case Study: Large Original Equipment Manufacturer achieves seamless process authoring and execution with iBase-t Solumina MES

Bridging Design Simulation to Real World Execution with Solumina MES

A Large Original Equipment Manufacturer in aerospace and defense was struggling to create efficient, scalable, and traceable process authoring across complex product builds and evolving model-based enterprise requirements. The company had invested heavily in its PLM platform, but the approach became fragmented and brittle, especially for assembly planning and shop floor execution. iBase-t’s Solumina MES was used as the product/service solution reference in the case study.

iBase-t implemented Solumina Manufacturing Operations Platform to unify process definition and execution in one system, with native MES and SQM integration and no reliance on brittle custom integrations. The OEM gained a seamless handoff from engineering intent to actionable work instructions, improved traceability and quality, and became ready for digital thread continuity, including future UUID-based models. The case study does not provide hard numerical metrics, but it reports reduced complexity, faster time to value, lower total cost of ownership, and fewer errors through direct flow of process plans to the shop floor.