Category: Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul

If your MRO operations run on spreadsheets and disconnected data, you’re taking on risk. And for CFOs, it’s about unlocking value from what you’ve already built, and ensuring it’s mission-ready, year after year. 

When new sales in aerospace manufacturing slow down, the operational performance of your organization becomes the metric that matters. Can your team meet delivery schedules with precision? Can you maintain quality while adjusting to supply disruptions, labor gaps, or engineering changes? These questions are always important, but given the state of the market, they have become strategically central.  

This long-range view of maintenance brings MRO into focus. After all, a product’s entire lifetime will be spent outside of the manufacturing plant, with many changes taking place in people and organizations along the way.

Achieving a more complete digital thread across all involved systems is not always easy. It requires careful planning, investment in the right tools and technologies, and a commitment to change. Review some key steps businesses can take to successfully implement digital transformation of MRO operations.

Whether a service-providing organization or a manufacturer looking to service products, this Solumina MRO example is worth considering.

From faster production to eco-friendly solutions, there are many great changes that we must look forward to with MRO and 3D printing.

A digital model explains why traceability is so critical to deriving all the benefits from adopting an MBE approach to manufacturing and subsequent field service or MRO opportunities.

Since your MES is at the heart of shop floor operations, treat it like any other production asset and maintain it to ensure optimum performance.

Since airing this presentation, we received many questions on what was involved and how challenges were overcome, so we thought it would be helpful to share these insights for others that are either starting or in the middle of their digital MRO transformation.