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Aviation & Aerospace

Build the traceability record your AS9100 audit requires

Link data from ERP, MES, CMMs, NDT systems, and more to every part serial, on-premise or fully air-gapped.

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Over 36,000 users have trusted FlowFuse

400+

Aerospace and aviation applications built

200+

Plants or production lines running FlowFuse

40+

Industrial protocols and systems supported out of the box

Put a number on the cost of disconnected aerospace operations

Aerospace teams can quantify the value of recovering engineering time, deploying automation faster, and reducing the impact of production downtime. Use the calculator below to model the opportunity with your own numbers.

Your team

Running on conservative defaults for reuse, deployment automation and downtime recovery. Open the full ROI calculator to tune every lever and see the research behind it.

Estimated annual recovery
$679,038/ year
Waste elimination · Time recovered finding information$225k
Speed to deploy · Reuse + automated deployment$154k
Fault tolerance · Avoided downtime & idle time$300k
Net savings after your FlowFuse investment$575,000
≈6.4× returnpays for itself in 1–3 months

Directional estimate for comparison, not a quote. Every input is yours to change.

Want to tune every assumption and see the research behind it? Open the full ROI calculator.

Applications for Aerospace Manufacturing

See how FlowFuse supports aerospace manufacturers across system connectivity, AI on shop floor data, component compliance, and quality response.

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Connect Your Existing Aerospace Systems

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No rip-and-replace. Connect CMMs, NDT systems, torque tools, curing ovens and autoclaves, machining centers, PLCs, SCADA, MES, and aerospace ERP software using open industrial protocols. Bring shop-floor data collection into one platform and build the low-code applications your aerospace manufacturing operations need.

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Bring Your Own AI to the Shop Floor

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Use FlowFuse Expert, or connect the AI tool your company already approved — ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or another MCP-compatible client — directly to that same data, since FlowFuse can act as an MCP server. No policy exception needed to stand up an AI pilot on machine data.

Read how to connect an industrial AI agent to FlowFuse
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Aerospace Component Manufacturing

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For Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers, the job isn't done when the part comes off the machine. FlowFuse assembles AS9102 first article inspection data as each operation runs, keeps job travelers and digital work instructions on the current revision, checks NADCAP certification and customer approvals before job release, and has production context ready when a supplier corrective action request (SCAR) arrives.

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Quality Events and Containment

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When a non-conformance occurs, the affected part, serial, work order, and process data should already be connected. FlowFuse routes quality events automatically, initiates holds with full part-serial context, and enforces disposition approval gates before release or scrap.

Read how to build a defect and quality monitoring dashboard

Built for Enterprise Manufacturing

FlowFuse is SOC 2 Type I and Type II certified, with role-based access control, single sign-on, audit logging, and air-gapped, self-hosted deployment options, built for the security and compliance requirements of large-scale manufacturing organizations.

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SOC 2 Type II

Single Sign-On

Audit Logs

Role-Based Access Control

Air-Gapped / Self-Hosted Deployment

Frequently Asked Questions

What aerospace production challenges can we help with?

Every aerospace manufacturer has different compliance, traceability, and operational challenges. FlowFuse lets you build the manufacturing applications your teams need using the systems already running your operation — from individual components to complete assemblies.

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