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Aerospace & Defense

Overview

Accelerate Progress

Accelerate Maximizing Quality, Traceability, & Efficiency in the Aerospace and Defense Industry with Proficy Smart Factory

In the highly regulated Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry, precision, compliance, and efficiency are non-negotiable. Proficy Smart Factory, empowers manufacturers to replace outdated paper-based processes with a scalable, digital solution. With real-time data visibility, robust traceability, and automated quality control, manufacturers can optimize operations, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement across multiple sites.
GE Vernova

What Challenges Will You Overcome Today?

Enhance Quality and Compliance
  • Ensure adherence to stringent industry regulations with built-in compliance monitoring.
  • Gain full traceability of materials and components across the entire production lifecycle.
  • Implement automated quality checks to minimize defects and rework.
Real-Time Visibility and Control
  • Access centralized, real-time production data to optimize decision-making.
  • Monitor manufacturing performance and detect deviations before they impact quality.
  • Leverage cloud-based analytics for deep operational insights.
Digitize and Automate Manufacturing Workflows
  • Replace paper-based processes with a user-friendly digital platform.
  • Standardize workflows and automate route creation, order execution, and quality checks.
  • Seamlessly integrate with existing ERP, PLM, and enterprise systems.
Improve Resource Utilization and Efficiency
  • Compare planned vs. actual production times for better efficiency tracking.
  • Streamline resource allocation to reduce waste and operational costs.
  • Minimize IT burden by leveraging cloud-based infrastructure.
Scalability for Future Growth
  • Deploy a flexible, cloud-native MES that scales with your business needs.
  • Manage multiple manufacturing sites with enterprise-wide data visibility.
  • Unlock advanced analytics capabilities with AWS and Microsoft Azure tools.
GE Vernova

“By moving from 32 distinct deployments to a single deployment of Proficy Historian on AWS, we can dramatically reduce management costs and downtime while improving value, scalability, and reliability.”

Bill Andrews

Technical Product Manager, GE Aerospace

Aerospace

75% of world’s top 30 Aerospace companies use GE Vernova solutions

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Outcomes

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Regulation & Quality

Ensure regulatory compliance and quality assurance with real-time product and process analysis. Gain full visibility into quality operations, export data to customers, and manage issues end-to-end with an integrated Non-Conformance Management module.

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Meet Complex Demands

Supports long product lifecycles with multiple phases of R&D, prototyping, and testing. Handles complex production with engineering change orders and is built to manage extensive internal and external supply chains.

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Digitize

Digitize and manage manufacturing records to easily contextualize product and process data. Streamline oversight and reduce the administrative burden of handling large volumes of manufacturing information.

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Sustainability

Lower utilities expenditures and mitigate risk exposure by operationalizing sustainability agendas. Tie sustainability data into orders to contextualize utilities information by product, machine, and people. “Bill of Resources”

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Material Management

Material Management, WIP, and Production Control to reduce waste and ensure JIT delivery. Gain full visibility into orders and operations, track consumption on the shop floor, and report inventory updates directly to ERP systems.

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Tracking & Genealogy

Tracking and Genealogy for material management, compliance, and labor. Graphically track material flow, operator activity, and tests. Consolidate orders into digital travelers (Device History Record) for complete visibility into production history.

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Finding & Retaining Labor

Address labor challenges with a modern, unified UX platform designed to attract and retain operators. Our software embeds best practice manufacturing principles, delivering an intuitive experience that supports workforce engagement and operational excellence.

End of Result
GE Vernova

GE Aerospace

GE Aerospace deployed a next-gen MES with GE Vernova’s Proficy Plant Applications, boosting efficiency at 50+ global sites. By unifying systems, they gained end-to-end visibility, increased productivity by 1.95%, and improved on-time delivery by 10 points. The Cheltenham, UK plant cut manual tasks, connected machines, and optimized labor tracking. Using Proficy Historian on AWS reduced costs by 20%, saving $185K annually, while predictive maintenance improved machine health and cut cycle times by 5%. GE Vernova’s Proficy software drives operational excellence and smart factory transformations worldwide.

    GE Vernova

    Industry Insights

    This “Ask an Expert” webinar, featuring GE Vernova, highlights aerospace and defense applications and shows how to integrate shop floor assets with MES to meet regulatory standards.

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