Case Study: Maintenance and Repair Service Provider boosts flexibility and efficiency with VIMANA Smart Manufacturing Analytics

Repair Centers Increase Manufacturing Flexibility and Efficiency

Maintenance and Repair Service Provider operates a global network of 30+ turbine service facilities that repair, refurbish, and upgrade equipment and OEM spare parts for the oil and gas and aviation industries. Facing highly variable short-run work, tight turnaround expectations, and pressure to lower costs, the company needed greater manufacturing flexibility and better decision support. They turned to VIMANA’s Smart Manufacturing Analytics for help.

VIMANA implemented automated data collection and transformation across machine tools, welders, coating cells, furnaces, CMMs, and enterprise systems to create a unified view of operations, along with real-time dashboards, historical analysis, alerts, and ticketing. This helped the Repair Centers optimize asset reliability, improve workforce productivity, and reduce waste. Results included productivity rising from 32% to 71%, Saturday shift coverage cut by 60% with 773 labor hours saved, cycle time stabilized at 4–8 hours, tooling wait time reduced to 10–20 minutes, and one aviation repair achieving 50% savings by routing work to lower-cost sites with available capacity.