Case Study: GE Healthcare achieves real-time aircraft parts traceability with Microsoft Power BI

GE Aviation’s Digital Group streamlines tracking of aircraft parts, reduces inefficiencies with Azure Blockchain technologies

GE Healthcare’s GE Aviation Digital Group worked with Microsoft Power BI and Azure Blockchain technologies to address a major aviation challenge: tracking the full history of aircraft parts. Because parts traceability was still heavily paper-based, the company faced inefficiencies, risk of error, and costly situations where otherwise usable parts could not be certified for use.

Microsoft implemented a blockchain-based solution using Azure Blockchain Service, Blockchain Data Manager, Azure Logic Apps, and Power BI to create a shared, real-time view of parts genealogy and status. The result was faster traceability, better collaboration with partners, and significant financial impact, including helping MTU Maintenance release more than $10 million in unsettled cash and reducing the months-to-years process of manual documentation to real-time scanning and reporting.

GE Healthcare

David Havera

Blockchain Leader