Case Study: Joint Strike Fighter achieves real-time tool visibility and improved manufacturing efficiency with Savi Technology (Savi SmartChain)

Joint Strike Fighter - Customer Case Study

The F‑35 Lightning II Program, managed by a leading aerospace prime contractor, faced a logistics challenge: thousands of specialized, expensive tools were shared across a 680‑acre, 153‑building assembly site and tracked manually, causing delays, lost tools, and limited visibility into tool location, condition, and status. The contractor needed accurate, real‑time information to improve scheduling, reduce downtime, and meet strict accounting and audit requirements.

Savi SmartChain tagged thousands of tools with active and passive IDs, feeding real‑time location and condition data into online dashboards, email alerts, and the contractor’s legacy enterprise systems. The solution sped return of idle tools to service, reduced lost tools, eliminated manual data‑entry errors, improved scheduling accuracy, and cut the effort required for compliance and audits—saving significant man‑hours and strengthening the F‑35 program’s manufacturing efficiency.

Joint Strike Fighter