The precision, traceability, and quality required in the aerospace manufacturing industry are obvious. Nevertheless, even high-end manufacturing centers may have challenges in dealing with one of the most simple things – real-time visibility of activities on the shop floor.
Tools travel between machining cells. Composite materials need tracking of inventories and conditions. Qualified specialists operate in controlled zones, and machines, molds, fixtures, and production processes produce constant flows of information.
When all that information is divided between different systems, bottlenecks detection or production activities tracking become problematic.
Fortunately, AI and Industrial IoT are able to change this situation. The technologies like RFID, BLE, sensors, and manufacturing analytics are capable of bringing together physical processes and digital information. Aerospace manufacturers can benefit from more visibility into tools, materials, workforce activities, machines, and production stages.
Real-time tooling visibility can facilitate finding of crucial resources, and material monitoring can give an overview of inventories and storage conditions. Analytics of production can also help to detect workflow bottlenecks.
In the future, smart aerospace manufacturing could be determined by turning current information flows into action.
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