Case Study: Aerospace and Defense Manufacturer improves asset performance and workforce efficiency with VIMANA

Aerospace Manufacturer Increases Resiliency to Risk and Disruption

The Aerospace and Defense Manufacturer, a single-source provider of production and automated assembly systems with five plants in the US and Mexico, needed better real-time insight to manage volatile demand, plant disruption, and profitability risk. They turned to VIMANA’s IoT smart manufacturing analytics, including asset performance management, predictive maintenance, and workforce performance tools, to understand asset performance, workforce productivity, and part production.

VIMANA implemented Smart Manufacturing Analytics with real-time dashboards, data visualizations, condition monitoring, anomaly detection, workforce reporting, and lights-out analysis to optimize assets and labor. The results were immediate: asset performance improved by 33% in 3 weeks, unplanned downtime dropped 40%, planned downtime fell 30%, staffing was reduced by 25%, and 25% lights-out machining was targeted and managed, helping improve manufacturing costs and profitability.