Assembly evidence
How are serial, operation, tool, tightening program and accepted result linked?
Industry
Aerospace and defence
Preserve evidence across long product lifecycles.
Connect assembly tools, equipment, MES, PLM and quality systems while maintaining product genealogy and controlled configuration.
- Core issues
- Legacy machines, serial traceability, tightening evidence, configuration and multi-system ownership.
- Strong use cases
- Connected tools, digital work instructions, machine genealogy and quality event integration.
- Website proof
- Architecture diagrams, acceptance logic, documented recovery and anonymized program constraints.
Evidence must outlive the production program.
Teams must be able to explain much later how each result was produced, controlled and accepted.
Applicable configuration
Which work plan, parameter set and product definition applied when the operation was performed?
Deviation and recovery
How are the deviation, quality decision, rework and final proof kept in one traceable chain?
Record retention
Which identifiers, records and formats must remain readable throughout the program lifecycle?
Start with the problem you need to solve.
Explore the most relevant production integration patterns for this sector.
Connected tightening with production context.
Problem: Tool results were useful only when linked to the correct order, product, operation, program and acceptance rule.
Delivery pattern: Tool or controller connection, context contract, acknowledgement, exception handling and MES or IoT publication.
Outcome: A supportable evidence chain from tool execution to quality investigation.
Aligned order, operation and result flows.
Problem: Systems used different identifiers and recovery rules for the same production event.
Delivery pattern: Ownership map, interface contract, canonical identifiers, validation, acknowledgement and replay.
Outcome: A flow that can be diagnosed and recovered without informal database intervention.
The capabilities applied to this sector.
The engagement can begin with one asset family, one workflow or one failing interface.
Machine and tool connectivityPLCs, sensors, test equipment and tightening tools.Connect the source →
ERP, MES, PLM and CRM integrationReliable events, ownership, acknowledgement and exceptions.Align the systems →
Digital shopfloorPaperless procedures, checks, traceability and operator workflows.Digitize the work →
Documentation and handoverInstallation, exploitation, troubleshooting, recovery and training.Make it operable →
Make the architecture fit the operation.
Bring the sector constraints, current systems and one process that needs to work better.