Stations live
70
▲ +46% increase
70 stations. Eight programs. One measured claim each.
Every customer below agreed a baseline in writing before go-live. The result column is what actually moved, measured on the same stations, against the same structures.
Holes inspected
4.2M
▲ +61% increase
Median RFT gain
+7.1 pts
Renewal rate
100%
Airframes assembled on Rivetira across commercial, defense, business-jet, eVTOL and space-structure programs: 8 factories, 70 assembly stations.
Meridian Aerostructures
Calder Aviation Group
Northvane Defense
Solstice Jets
Helion Air Mobility
Orbital Frame Systems
Who is running Rivetira, and on what
Filter by segment. Every row is a live production deployment with a signed baseline.
8 of 8 rows shown.
| Meridian Aerostructures | Tier-1 aerostructures | Narrowbody wing box | 14 | −64% shim hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calder Aviation Group | Commercial OEM | Single-aisle final assembly | 22 | +38% rate |
| Northvane Defense | Defense prime | Tactical airlifter | 9 | −71% escapes |
| Solstice Jets | Business jet OEM | Super-midsize fuselage | 7 | −49% rework |
| Helion Air Mobility | eVTOL | Composite airframe | 5 | +2.4× throughput |
| Orbital Frame Systems | Space structures | Launch vehicle barrel | 4 | −58% cycle time |
| Aeris Composites | Tier-1 aerostructures | Empennage assemblies | 6 | 99.6% RFT |
| Trellis Airframe Works | Tier-2 supplier | Fuselage panels | 3 | −41% FOD events |
| Total | 8 programs | 70 |
Stations under management, by segment
| Segment | Share |
|---|---|
| Tier-1 aerostructures | 20 |
| Commercial OEM | 22 |
| Defense prime | 9 |
| Business jet OEM | 7 |
| eVTOL | 5 |
| Space structures | 4 |
| Tier-2 supplier | 3 |
| Quarter | Stations live | Closed-loop stations |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 24 | 3 | 0 |
| Q2 24 | 7 | 1 |
| Q3 24 | 14 | 3 |
| Q4 24 | 22 | 8 |
| Q1 25 | 31 | 14 |
| Q2 25 | 44 | 23 |
| Q3 25 | 58 | 34 |
| Q4 25 | 70 | 47 |
What moved, across every deployment
| Measurement point | Change vs baseline (%) |
|---|---|
| Shim hours per join | -57.0% |
| Rework hours per airframe | -44.0% |
| Escapes to next station | -52.0% |
| FOD events per month | -68.0% |
| Join cycle time | -39.0% |
| Right-first-time | +7.1% |
| Takt adherence | +9.4% |
| Delivered rate | +21.0% |
In their words
“We stopped arguing about whether the gap was 0.4 or 0.6 millimetres. The twin predicted it, the shim came off the machine right, and the join closed in one pass.”
−64% shim hours per join
“The rate ramp was going to cost us four more positions. Instead the line rebalanced itself every shift and we found the capacity inside the stations we already had.”
+38% delivered rate
“Every hole is now inspected, not one in four. My airworthiness record writes itself, and I can hand an auditor a complete trace in ninety seconds.”
100% inspection coverage
Three deployments in detail
Removing hand-fit shimming from a narrowbody wing box
Predictive shimming cut fit-up from 3.4 iterations to a single machined pass across 14 stations.
Holding takt through a single-aisle rate ramp
Line-and-takt balancing across 22 stations absorbed a 38% rate increase without adding positions.
Driving airworthiness escapes toward zero on a tactical airlifter
Hole-and-fastener inspection caught 412 conditions before the structure left the station.
How long each deployment took to reach closed loop
Later deployments are faster, because model families, connectors and tolerance studies carry across programs.
| Customer | Months to closed loop |
|---|---|
| Meridian Aerostructures | 9.5 months |
| Calder Aviation Group | 8.0 months |
| Northvane Defense | 11.0 months |
| Solstice Jets | 6.5 months |
| Helion Air Mobility | 5.0 months |
| Orbital Frame Systems | 6.0 months |
| Aeris Composites | 4.5 months |
| Trellis Airframe Works | 4.0 months |
Every station, every structure, one record
Sort any column. The same table backs the audit export an airworthiness engineer hands to a regulator.
| FA-01 · Fuselage section join | Section 41/43 | 0.041 mm | 18 h | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA-02 · Wing-body join | Wing box | 0.062 mm | 31 h | ||
| FA-03 · Empennage attach | Vertical/horizontal | 0.028 mm | 9 h | ||
| FA-04 · Systems installation | Hydraulics/electrical | 0.055 mm | 12 h | ||
| FA-05 · Final assembly | Interiors/doors | 0.037 mm | 6 h | ||
| WG-11 · Wing skin-to-spar | Lower skin | 0.033 mm | 22 h | ||
| WG-12 · Wing skin-to-spar | Upper skin | 0.048 mm | 26 h | ||
| FS-21 · Fuselage panel | Barrel section | 0.030 mm | 11 h |
Assembly autonomy, measured on the line
Every figure below is produced by the same telemetry the agents act on — station cycle, hole quality, gap field, fastener state and conformance. Pilot and design-partner aggregate, trailing 12 months.
Holes drilled under agent control
41.6M
▲ +32% increase
Right-first-time, structural joins
97.9%
▲ +9.1% increase
Shim hours removed per join
68%
▼ -68% decrease
Assembly-line uptime
99.94%
▲ +0.3% increase
Aggregate across design-partner lines. Baselines are the same stations before Rivetira, measured over an equivalent period.
Three people, three questions, one system
Plant / Operations Director
Owns rate, quality, rework and airworthiness.
“Can I hold takt through the ramp without adding positions?”
Sees: Rate, takt adherence, travelled work, overtime, cost per airframe.
Manufacturing / Liaison Engineer
Owns drilling programs, shimming, fit-up and assembly quality.
“Will this join close in one pass, and what shim do I machine?”
Sees: Predicted gap field, shim geometry, drilling programs, fit-up iterations.
Quality / Airworthiness Engineer
Owns AS9100, hole and fastener conformance and traceability.
“Can I prove every fastener on this airframe was installed to spec?”
Sees: Conformance, NCR flow, FOD events, immutable trace, audit export.
Reads and writes back to the machines you already own
Rivetira is not a rip-and-replace. It connects to the drilling machines, crawlers, trackers, shim cells, sealant robots and MES already on your floor over APIs and OT protocols.
Drilling & fastening
- Flex-track crawlers
- Gantry drilling machines
- C-frame riveters
- Automated fastening cells
- Hand-fed ADUs
Metrology
- Laser trackers
- Photogrammetry rigs
- Structured-light scanners
- iGPS / indoor GPS
- Articulated arm CMMs
Shimming & sealing
- 5-axis shim machining
- Liquid shim dispense
- Sealant robots
- Cure monitoring
- Bead inspection
Factory systems
- Assembly MES
- PLM / as-designed models
- ERP work orders
- Quality / NCR systems
- Historians & OPC UA
OPC UA, MTConnect, MQTT, ROS 2, REST and file-drop connectors. Read-only shadow mode first; write-back enabled only after twin validation.
Questions engineers actually ask
Anything else goes to the people who build it. Ask an assembly engineer or read the full FAQ.
Yes, after a line assessment. References are matched by segment and structure type, so a defense prime speaks to a defense prime. Some programs cannot be named publicly; those references are arranged under NDA.
No result is guaranteed, and any vendor who guarantees one is not measuring honestly. What we do offer is outcome-based commercial terms: if the agreed metric does not move against the agreed baseline, we do not earn that portion of the fee.
Because the deployment base is still small and young — eight programs over eight quarters. It is an honest number, not a durable one. Ask us again at fifty programs.
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A line assessment maps one station, quantifies the rework, shim and rate opportunity, and returns a modelled ROI in three weeks. No production disruption.