Faster insights, smarter decision-making
Aerospace and defense manufacturers face mounting challenges: complex operations, evolving compliance requirements, and a retiring workforce. At the same time, government mandates for Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) demand tighter digital integration across the value chain. And despite generating tremendous amounts of data, many organizations still lack the ability to transform that data into actionable insights.
Generic AI tools can’t solve these challenges. They lack the domain expertise, traceability, and compliance rigor A&D organizations require.
Solumina AI is different.
- Purpose-Built for A&D – Leverages context-specific Solumina procedural expertise and your own operational metadata for relevant, trustworthy outputs.
- Flexible & Secure – Supports ITAR/NIST compliance, role-based permissions, and self-hosted or on-prem environments.
- Supports the Digital Thread & MBE – Extends the value of MBE initiatives by connecting AI insights directly to authoritative data in Solumina.
- Embedded in Core Platform – Natively integrated with Solumina MES, MRO, and enterprise quality workflows, not bolted on.
With its modular suite of interoperable tools – Digital SME, ScanAI, Intelligence, and PulseAI – Solumina AI equips your teams to work smarter, faster, and more compliantly.
Why Solumina AI is Different: Operational Context
AI is only as good as the data behind it. This is where generic AI tools often fail — and where Solumina AI stands apart.
Because Solumina AI is deeply embedded in your Solumina platform, it has access to the full operational context that drives manufacturing accuracy and compliance.
- It knows what version of a process plan you’re running.
- It knows who the user is, what their role is, and what permissions they have.
- It respects effectivity — because what’s true for “Facility A” on Monday might not be true for “Facility B” on Thursday.
This kind of contextual fidelity is almost impossible to replicate with a generic AI chatbot or external system. But for A&D manufacturing and sustainment, it’s non-negotiable.
Solumina AI doesn’t just answer questions or generate reports. It does so with traceability, security, and manufacturing accuracy built in.
Accuracy, Reliability, and Cybersecurity
Accuracy & Reliability
Solumina AI is validated against real-world manufacturing scenarios to ensure consistent, dependable performance. Ongoing data quality monitoring and expert oversight minimize risks of errors or bias, while adherence to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework reinforces confidence in results.
Cybersecurity at the Core
Designed for sensitive aerospace and defense environments, Solumina AI complies with ITAR, EAR, CMMC, and NIST 800-171 requirements. Secure-by-design practices, including role-based access controls, a protected development lifecycle, and continuous monitoring, safeguard data and maintain system integrity.
Trusted & Compliant
By combining validated accuracy with embedded security, Solumina AI empowers manufacturers to adopt AI with confidence – delivering smarter, faster decisions without compromising compliance or protection.
Solumina AI Platform Modules
Solumina AI is a growing suite of interoperable modules – each one tightly aligned to a specific challenge
in A&D manufacturing and underpinned by a unified AI platform that understands your data, your
workflows, and your goals.
Solumina Digital SME – Instant Contextual Guidance
Your AI copilot for Solumina.
With experienced staff retiring, A&D manufacturers must reduce errors, train faster, and protect critical knowledge.
Solumina Digital SME empowers teams to perform processes correctly from the start by providing immediate answers and clear, step-by-step guidance.
Drawing on the iBase-t Knowledge Center, it delivers context-sensitive direction exactly when it’s needed.
- Get Instant, Accurate Answers – Ask questions in plain language through a chat interface and receive immediate guidance without digging through manuals.
- Reduce Errors and Rework – Ensure consistent, correct execution with context-aware instructions that consider the user role, access permissions, Solumina version, and more.
- Onboard Faster – Accelerate training and engrain best-practices for new users with tips and shortcuts.
- Preserve Institutional Knowledge – Share expertise across the workforce to offset retirements.
In Action: A technician asks, “How do you create a discrepancy?” and Digital SME instantly responds
with context-specific steps pulled directly from Solumina best practices.
Solumina ScanAI – Intelligent Document Digitization
Turn paper bottlenecks into digital workflows.
A&D manufacturers face pressure to cut inefficiencies, stay compliant, and gain real-time visibility, yet many still rely on paper documentation that slows operations and increases risk.
Solumina ScanAI uses intelligent scanning and parsing to transform your static, paper-based records into structured digital data that is integrated directly into Solumina. By connecting legacy documentation with digital operations, it enables faster, smarter, more compliant work.
- Eliminate Manual Entry – Extract data from work instructions, process plans, SOPs and more in seconds.
- Protect Data Integrity & Compliance – Convert documents into traceable, validated digital records and pushes accurate data directly into Solumina MES/MRO workflows.
- Unlock Hidden Knowledge – Make static legacy documents searchable and actionable.
- Digitize Any Format – Supports diverse documentation types, including scanned PDFs, forms, and printed records.
In Action: A document control team drags and drops a PDF of work instructions into ScanAI.
Within minutes, the data is parsed and integrated into Solumina’s workflows — no manual re-entry required.
Solumina Intelligence – On-Demand Operational Insights
Ask questions. Get answers. Act faster.
Most shop floors generate vast amounts of data – from production metrics to defect rates – but many struggle to analyze and act on this information efficiently.
Solumina Intelligence puts powerful analytics at your fingertips, allowing you to ask operational and performance-focused questions in plain language and receive instant insights from the real-time and historical manufacturing data in your Solumina database.
- Answer Questions in Seconds – Get clear responses to your operational questions on the fly – without SQL or analytics expertise.
- Intuitive Data Presentation – Responses can be delivered as conversational explanations, charts, tables, or even dashboards for easy, at-a-glance comprehension.
- Spot Issues Early – Identify trends, anomalies, and bottlenecks on the shopfloor before they escalate and drill into quality deviations or performance gaps.
In Action: A supervisor asks, “How many work orders exist for each possible order status?” Solumina
Intelligence responds immediately with a data table, giving the team the information they need to adjust
resources in real time.
Solumina PulseAI – Automated, Interactive Reporting
Your AI copilot for Solumina.
In A&D manufacturing, leaders rely on key metrics to make critical decisions – but generating reports is slow, skill-intensive, and produces static outputs with limited context.
Solumina PulseAI automates shop floor performance reporting and delivers interactive, information-rich updates tailored to supervisors, managers, and executives and more. Recipients can chat directly with PulseAI to uncover further insights.
- Save Time Every Week – Automate recurring KPI and metric reporting for your stakeholders – no more manual digging.
- Insightful Snapshots – PulseAI updates are succinct yet data-rich, including text-based summaries, graphs, charts and more.
- Dig Deeper on Demand – Recipients can ask PulseAI follow-up questions in natural language for added context.
- Keep Leaders Aligned – Scheduled, pre-structured reports ensure everyone is working from the same data to ensure timely, informed decisions.
In Action: PulseAI delivers a weekly report that includes scrap quantities by work order.
Seeing a spike, the plant manager asks which shifts are responsible. PulseAI drills down to reveal the answer instantly.
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