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iBASEt to Present at American A&D Summit 2020

This media alert announced Kim Archibald, head of North America solution engineering at iBASEt, will lead a discussion on how Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) have become a central part of digital operations platforms.

December 02, 2020

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Preparing for the Commercial Aerospace Boom

Numbers indicate that the commercial aerospace industry is on the rise. Continue reading to learn how aerospace is skyrocketing.

January 21, 2019

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Virgin Galactic Success Foreshadows a New Space Race

Virgin Atlantic's most recent venture into space signifies a movement toward elevated space travel, space freight, or space tourism. Continue reading to learn more about the new space race.

January 07, 2019

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MES is the Foundation for Digital Manufacturing

There is a lot of hype around technology these days--machine learning, smart robots, digital twins, blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT)--everybody is talking about them.

November 30, 2018

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Survey of Aerospace Professionals Reveals the Largest MRO Industry

Read about the top MRO industry challenges and fallout this year, according to the Oliver Wyman survey.

July 11, 2018

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Blockchain Evolves Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing

The blockchain is typically associated with the Bitcoin cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system, but its implications run much deeper.

February 02, 2018

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Seven Big Predictions for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in

The Internet of Things (IoT) concerns sensors and other computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data over…

February 01, 2018

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MOM Helps Bridge the Skills Gap in American Manufacturing

Manufacturing Operations Management helps solve the skills gap in American manufacturing.

August 17, 2017

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Workforce Pressure Rising Fast in Aviation MRO – How Service Task

Service Task Management (STM) is one piece of MRO software that is crucial for overcoming workforce pressure in aviation.

August 04, 2017

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Lockheed Martin’s Digital Thread Vision

Our recent visit to Frost & Sullivan’s 14th annual Manufacturing Leadership Summit was memorable on a number of counts, but two in particular stand out:

July 27, 2017

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The Rising and Reviving Implications of Privatized Space Exploration

The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 opened up privatized space exploration. Explore how new space is meeting old.

May 16, 2017

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The SQM Advantage

SQM is a competitive advantage in manufacturing. AS9100 Rev D points to how rigorous quality management has become in aerospace.

April 17, 2017

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Smart Manufacturing Continues to Soar at AeroDef 2017

AeroDef brings together leading companies and executives from the aerospace and defense industry as well as vendors that serve the sector.

April 05, 2017

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Why Integrate A&D MRO, Diagnostic Capabilities, and Service

In the aviation industry, two of the major concerns for manufacturers and operators are fleet uptime and safety, while strictly following rules, processes, and protocols mandated by the FAA.

February 23, 2017

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What Lies Ahead for Aerospace and Defense in 2017?

In 2017, the Aerospace and Defense industry will see more sweeping change than it has in recent years, because of political shifts in the US and UK.

February 01, 2017

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The EURONAVAL 2016 Event Recap

The bi-annual EURONAVAL event is said to be the world’s largest meeting of naval technologies with 355 exhibitors, over 400 journalists and nearly 25,000 trade visitors.

December 12, 2016

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Equipment Maintenance and Supplier Quality in Nuclear Facilities

Quality systems are designed to provide traceability, control of product & processes, regardless of the regulatory agency or standard responsible for enforcement.

November 30, 2016

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MRO Compliance without Consternation

A recent article on Aviation Week underscored just how maddening MRO compliance can be. The feature pointed to the new parts documentation requirement.

November 22, 2016

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As Aerospace and Defense Evolves, MRO Moves Towards Center Stage

The growth in overall deployed fleets is being driven in part by emerging markets, and the number of aircraft coming out of service is relatively modest.

June 01, 2016

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AeroDef 2016 Recap

Last week, we had the opportunity to exhibit at AeroDef 2016 Manufacturing Expo and Conference in Long Beach, California. Exhibitors and attendees arrived to AeroDef from across the country, some even traveling from overseas seeking aerospace and defense visions and innovations.

February 16, 2016

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4 Prédictions sur l’adoption des Manufacturing Execution Systems

MES automation software helps manufacturing industries to improve operational performance by automating, executing, and managing various processes.

December 22, 2015

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The Future of Manufacturing: 10 Technologies Driving Advancement

Explore key takeaways from the Deloitte Global and Council on Competitiveness study, Advanced Technologies Initiative Manufacturing & Innovation.

December 15, 2015

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The Top 100 Defense Companies of 2015

Defense News names the top 100 defense companies of 2015.

December 15, 2015

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The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 Are Defining The Future of

Nearly 80% of senior execs rate innovation as either the top-most priority or a top-three priority for their company. The following graphic compares where innovation and product development tank among respondent company’s top strategic priorities over the last ten years.

December 04, 2015

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10 Predictions for Manufacturing Execution Systems and Manufacturing

Bottom line: Manufacturers today are facing the global challenges of staying in step with increasingly complex customer requirements while accelerating product development and reducing costs. Excelling on these three dimensions is going to require an entirely new level of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Manufacturing Intelligence and analytics performance.

November 24, 2015

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81% of Enterprises Are Relying On Analytics to Gain Greater Customer

Explore insights from the KPMG study published earlier this month, Going Beyond The Data, Turning Data From Insights to Value.

November 05, 2015

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Businesses Adopting Big Data, Cloud & Mobility Grow 53% Faster

Dell’s second annual Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI 2015) released last week in collaboration with TNS Research. Get the details here.

October 24, 2015

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2015 Big Data Market Update: 42.6% of Big Data Manufacturing Apps Are

Big data manufacturing apps are abundant in the field of complex manufacturing. Did you now nearly 50% of them are created by enterprises?

October 18, 2015

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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2016 Define The Future

Gartner predicts that algorithms will have a galvanizing effect across and within enterprises and implies this will extend to value chains, defining the future of business from an interconnection and relationship standpoint.

October 15, 2015

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Celebrating Our Customers’ Relentless Drive To Manufacturing

Our goal is to educate our customers and empower them to excel with our solutions, reaching new levels of innovation and quality on a consistent basis.

October 08, 2015

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Why 3D Printing Adoption Is Accelerating In Manufacturing Today

European 3D printing early adopters are more focused on attaining scale, while their Americas-based counterparts are focused on pragmatic factors of co-creation and buying a 3D print

September 25, 2015

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Why Wearables’ Redemption Is Waiting On The Factory Floor

Wearables are redeeming themselves by embracing a more service-oriented strategy that seeks to deliver manufacturing intelligence from the factory floor to the top floor.

September 23, 2015

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World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2015

The study defines distributed manufacturing as the continual strategy to replace as much of the material supply chain as possible with digital information.

September 22, 2015

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Ten Ways Big Data Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing

Big data and advanced analytics are delivering the missing link that can unify daily production activity to the financial performance of a manufacturer.

September 21, 2015

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10 Ways Mobility Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing

The report provides insights into the priorities, plans and technology adoption trends of CEOs for 2015.

September 17, 2015

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Where Internet of Things Initiatives Are Driving Revenue Now

Manufacturers expect Internet of Things initiatives to drive an average 27.1% revenue increase by 2018.

September 15, 2015

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10 Ways Analytics Are Accelerating Digital Manufacturing

Digital manufacturing strategies are gaining ground as manufacturers adopt big data and analytics to improve operational effectiveness, time-to-market, new product development and increase product quality and reliability.

September 14, 2015

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2015 CIT Aerospace Outlook Amplifies The Need For Enterprise-Wide

To fully capitalize on these opportunities and perform at the speed customers expect, many of these aerospace manufacturers need to move forward with the current generation of MES applications and tools.

September 03, 2015

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Key Take-Aways From PwC’s 2015 Aerospace Manufacturing

PwC has made significant enhancements to last year’s global ranking methodology including the addition of infrastructure, regulatory and corruption metrics.

September 02, 2015

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Explore The Future Of Digital Manufacturing At Excelerate 2015

The future of digital manufacturing is being defined today.

September 02, 2015

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Key Take-Aways from Deloitte’s 2015 Global Aerospace and Defense

Commercial aerospace sector orders grew from 2,858 in 2013 to record levels of 2,888 sales orders in 2014, while aircraft deliveries increased by 6.1% from 1,274 to 1,352 deliveries.

August 13, 2015

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5 Strategies Of High Performance Quality Management Teams

All manufacturers are on a quality management journey with many progressing quicker than their competitors, attaining more in just a few years than their competitors attain in a lifetime.

July 29, 2015

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Don’t Let the Marketing Fool You, Real Value Gets Created on

You can have all the fancy tools, all the simulation that shows how products could be assembled, but if your shop floor isn't working efficiently, if they don't have the right tool to build the product, those other fancy options bring you no value.

July 27, 2015

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Making Supplier Quality Management Pay

Supply chains are the lifeblood of any business, and the more agile and flexible they are, the greater resilience and strength any manufacturer has.

July 27, 2015

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53% of Aerospace and Defense Manufacturers Say Growth is Their Top

The greatest supply chain challenges A&D manufacturers face include ensuring sufficient supplier capacity meet demand (43%), supplier performance in terms of risk, reliability and quality (43%) and flexibility and responsiveness to changes in demand or product mix (40%).

July 24, 2015

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Top Three Insights from the 2015 Paris Air Show

Every two years in June, aviation and space enthusiasts turn their attention to the International Air Show and Space of Paris-Le Bourget (SIAE), more commonly known as the Paris Air Show. This is the largest international event representing the aviation, aerospace and defense industries on a global scale today.

July 21, 2015

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Manufacturing Operations Management Made the World Flat

The world is getting flatter. We're text messaging anyone in the world in seconds. We're having web meetings with video. One is virtually in the room halfway across the world.

July 10, 2015

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Key Take-Aways From KPMG’s 2015 Global Manufacturing Outlook

Sales growth (55%), reducing cost structure (41%) and development of new products (32%) are top three strategic priorities for manufacturers in 2015.

June 09, 2015

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Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For Government: CIOs

Gartner explores the top 10 technology trends in the government sector, amid waning budgets.

June 04, 2015

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Complex Manufacturers Dominate The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 For

Gartner's 2015 announcement of the top global supply chain leaders reveals a striking number of complex manufacturers included in its supply chain top 25, and notes the wide scope of their business models.

May 15, 2015

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Using Analytics To Accelerate Supply Chain Accuracy And Performance

Forward-thinking companies are relying on lean Six Sigma to selectively target and improve specific areas of their supplier network performance.

May 12, 2015

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Digital Technologies Are Revolutionizing Aerospace Manufacturing

Digital technologies have long been relied on for improving supply chain performance, reducing time-to-market and improving financial performance in aerospace manufacturers.

May 06, 2015

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What Are Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) For Complex Discrete

The highest-performing Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) reduce the chaotic clutter of paperwork by delivering greater accuracy, precision and quality of online work instructions, while scaling processes across all production centers anytime, anywhere.

May 05, 2015

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Predicting Industry 4.0’s Impact On Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 is projected to drive productivity gains of 5 to 8% on total manufacturing costs over ten years in Germany, totaling €90B to €150B.

April 28, 2015

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iBASEt User Conference 2015: Registration Now Open!

In addition to our users, non-Solumina users from complex manufacturing industries including aerospace & defense, medical device, nuclear, electronics and industrial are also welcome to attend.

April 20, 2015

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Industry 4.0 : The Heart Of European Investment According To Plan

The term "Industry 4.0" refers to the fourth industrial revolution after mechanization, industrialization and automation.

April 07, 2015

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L’industrie 4.0 : le cœur d’investissement Européen suivant les

Rappelons tout d’abord ce qu’ont été les 3 révolutions précédentes:

April 07, 2015

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Solumina: Accelerating Visibility & Control at AeroDef 2015

iBASEt announced today that the company will exhibit its Solumina software suite at AeroDef Exposition & Conference (booth #152) on April 21-22 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, TX.

March 24, 2015

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Solumina: Accelerating Visibility & Control at AeroDef 2015

iBASEt announced today that the company will exhibit its Solumina software suite at AeroDef Exposition & Conference (booth #152) on April 21-22 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, TX.

March 24, 2015

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Five Strategies for Improving Enterprise Quality Management e-Book

A strong quality management strategy galvanizes diverse departments, processes and legacy IT systems into a common platform that makes excellent product and service quality happen.

March 24, 2015

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Gfi Business Transformation and iBASEt Sign Partnership Agreement

Gfi Business Transformation is a Management Consulting organization whose main line of development is focused on improving the performance of large, enterprise-class industrial accounts.

March 18, 2015

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iBASEt to Showcase Solumina MRO at Aviation Week

iBASEt announced today that the company will exhibit its Solumina MRO software suite at the 20th annual Aviation Week MRO Americas Conference (booth #1726) on April 14-16, 2015 at the Convention Center in Miami Beach, FL.

March 17, 2015

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3D Printing Trends in Aerospace, 2015

In a 2014 Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) survey of more than 100 industrial manufacturers, two-thirds were already using 3D printing.

March 12, 2015

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Key Take-Aways From Deloitte’s 2015 Global Aerospace And Defense

These and other key take-aways are from the 2015 Global Aerospace And Defense Industry Outlook published by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Deloitte Global) last month.

March 04, 2015

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2015 Roundup of Global Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Trends

Manufacturers are chasing the best design, engineering and production talent globally while attempting to reduce costs and improve quality. Managing to these constraints is always challenging and also changing the structure of the aerospace and defense industry.

March 03, 2015

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France: Production Aérospatiale et Système d’Exécution de

Quand il se agit de système d'exécution de fabrication et production aérospatiale, trois grandes catégories d’opérateurs constituent l’industrie aéronautique et spatiale en France, sur un marché de 35 Md€.

February 20, 2015

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How Supplier Quality Helps Pilots Excel

From the initial supplier quality qualifications, audits and sourcing requirements to production and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), all aspects of jet production are predicated on quality management.

February 11, 2015

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Roundup of Aerospace Forecasts and Predictions, 2015

Aerospace industry sales will increase 5.3% in 2015, with civil aircraft sales being the greatest contributor to $79.8B in revenue this year.

January 29, 2015

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