Delivered rate
+38%
Six segments, one bottleneck: assembly
Commercial rate ramps, defense recapitalisation, business-jet mix, eVTOL industrialisation and the space buildout are all rate-limited by the same manual, rework-heavy structural build.
| Segment | Improvement (%) |
|---|---|
| Commercial OEM | 38% |
| Defense prime | 71% |
| Business jet | 49% |
| eVTOL | 140% |
| Space structures | 58% |
| Tier-1 aerostructures | 64% |
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
Commercial aircraft OEMs
Narrowbody and widebody rate ramps are limited by final assembly, not by orders.
A multi-thousand-jet backlog means every hour of takt is worth more than it has ever been. Rivetira balances the moving line, removes hand-fit shimming from the wing-body join, and makes every hole in the airframe a traceable, conforming record.
- Rate ramp without adding positions
- Wing-body join in a single fit-up pass
- Travelled work driven down
- Complete airworthiness trace per airframe
| Quarter since go-live | With Rivetira | Baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 100 | 100 |
| Q2 | 108 | 102 |
| Q3 | 118 | 103 |
| Q4 | 126 | 105 |
| Q5 | 132 | 106 |
| Q6 | 138 | 108 |
Defense primes
Recapitalisation programs with cleared, retiring workforces and zero tolerance for escapes.
Defense assembly combines low rate, high mix and the strictest conformance requirements in aerospace. Rivetira runs air-gapped on ITAR programs, inspects every characteristic rather than a sample, and produces the trace the program office asks for.
- Air-gapped, ITAR-aware deployment
- 100% inspection coverage
- Escapes to next station down 71%
- Cleared-workforce leverage
Escapes to next station
−71%
| Quarter since go-live | With Rivetira | Baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 100 | 100 |
| Q2 | 84 | 98 |
| Q3 | 62 | 97 |
| Q4 | 44 | 96 |
| Q5 | 34 | 95 |
| Q6 | 29 | 94 |
Business jet OEMs
High mix, low volume, and a fit-and-finish standard no other segment has to hit.
Business-jet fuselages carry more configuration variance per airframe than any commercial program. The as-built twin models each configuration individually, so a one-off interior arrangement does not become a one-off quality problem.
- Per-airframe configuration modelling
- Fit-and-finish conformance
- Rework down 49%
- Faster new-model introduction
Rework hours
−49%
| Quarter since go-live | With Rivetira | Baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 100 | 100 |
| Q2 | 88 | 99 |
| Q3 | 74 | 98 |
| Q4 | 63 | 97 |
| Q5 | 55 | 97 |
| Q6 | 51 | 96 |
eVTOL & advanced air mobility
Composite airframes that must go from certification build to volume production.
eVTOL programs have to industrialise a composite airframe faster than any aerospace program in history, usually without a legacy assembly workforce. Rivetira encodes the craft rather than hiring it.
- Composite-first perception models
- Volume production from cert build
- No legacy workforce required
- Throughput up 2.4×
Throughput
2.4×
| Quarter since go-live | With Rivetira | Baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 100 | 100 |
| Q2 | 124 | 106 |
| Q3 | 158 | 112 |
| Q4 | 192 | 118 |
| Q5 | 224 | 122 |
| Q6 | 240 | 126 |
Space structures
Large barrel and tank structures where one bad hole scraps a very expensive part.
Launch-vehicle structures are enormous, thin and unforgiving. Friction-stir and mechanical joins on barrels leave no margin for a misdrilled hole, and the cost of a scrapped section dwarfs the cost of inspecting every characteristic.
- Large-structure handling supervision
- Scrap risk reduction
- Cycle time down 58%
- Complete as-built barrel record
Cycle time
−58%
| Quarter since go-live | With Rivetira | Baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 100 | 100 |
| Q2 | 89 | 98 |
| Q3 | 76 | 96 |
| Q4 | 64 | 95 |
| Q5 | 51 | 94 |
| Q6 | 42 | 93 |
Tier-1 & tier-2 aerostructures
Supplying an OEM whose rate commitment is now your rate commitment.
Aerostructures suppliers carry the OEM’s ramp with thinner margins and less capital. Rivetira lands on one cell, proves the return in a quarter, and expands across the shop as autonomy is earned.
- Single-cell entry point
- Shim hours down 64%
- Rate commitments met
- Quality data the OEM can audit
Shim hours per join
−64%
| Quarter since go-live | With Rivetira | Baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 100 | 100 |
| Q2 | 86 | 99 |
| Q3 | 71 | 98 |
| Q4 | 58 | 98 |
| Q5 | 44 | 97 |
| Q6 | 36 | 96 |
The same seven agents, tuned per program
Each agent owns one part of the structural build. They share one perception layer, one as-built twin and one conformance record, so a decision made at the drill is visible at the join.
Drill & Fasten
Adaptive control of drilling, countersinking and rivet/bolt installation.
Hole & Fastener Inspection
Vision + in-process metrology sensing of hole, countersink, fastener, gap and FOD.
Align & Shim
Metrology-assisted alignment and predictive shimming that removes hand-fit loops.
Seal & Join
Sealant application control and fuselage / wing-body join sequencing.
Line & Takt
Moving- and pulse-line station balancing, takt optimisation and travelled-work control.
Robot & Handling
Crawlers, AGVs, positioners and cranes moving and holding large structures.
Quality & Conformance
Right-first-time, non-conformance, rework and full airworthiness traceability.
Where the money actually comes back
Rivetira is priced on the metric it moves. This is the value stack from a representative 14-station wing-box deployment.
| Value source | Annualised value (USD) |
|---|---|
| Shim labour removed | $4.9M |
| Rework hours avoided | $3.6M |
| Rate capacity unlocked | $3.1M |
| Scrap & escapes avoided | $2.2M |
| Overtime reduction | $1.4M |
| Inspection labour | $0.9M |
Annualised value
$16.1M
Platform cost
$2.7M
Payback period
2.4 mo
Net revenue retention
136%
▲ +36% increase
Shadow first. Autonomy is earned, not switched on.
Every agent starts by watching. It is promoted only when its measured accuracy clears the mechanic-plus-metrology baseline and the twin agrees.
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Weeks 1–4
Shadow
Agent observes the station, predicts every outcome, actuates nothing. Accuracy measured against what the mechanics actually do.
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Weeks 4–10
Advisory
Agent recommends feed, shim geometry and sequence. A human accepts or rejects; every rejection becomes training data.
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Weeks 10–20
Supervised
Agent actuates with a human in the loop and a live fail-safe stop. Airworthiness-critical dispositions still require sign-off.
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Week 20+
Closed loop
Agent runs the step. Humans handle exceptions and the twin gates any change to the control policy.
| Week | Agent accuracy | Mechanic + metrology baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | 88.2% | 94.1% |
| Wk 4 | 91.4% | 94.0% |
| Wk 6 | 93.6% | 94.2% |
| Wk 8 | 95.2% | 94.1% |
| Wk 10 | 96.4% | 94.3% |
| Wk 12 | 97.1% | 94.2% |
| Wk 16 | 97.8% | 94.1% |
| Wk 20 | 98.3% | 94.2% |
| Wk 24 | 98.6% | 94.3% |
Built for programs that cannot leak and cannot fail
Airframe geometry is among the most protected IP in manufacturing, and much of it is export-controlled. Rivetira is architected for that reality from the edge up.
Certified
SOC 2 Type II
Annual audit covering security, availability and confidentiality of the control plane.
Supported
ITAR / EAR aware
US-person access controls, on-prem and air-gapped deployment for controlled programs.
Mapped
AS9100 alignment
Quality records, NCR flow and traceability mapped to aerospace quality requirements.
In progress
ISO 27001
Information security management system certification underway. [PLACEHOLDER: target date]
Data stays where the airframe is
- Factory edge runtime holds all program geometry, imagery and metrology locally
- Air-gapped mode: model updates arrive by signed media, telemetry never leaves
- Per-tenant isolation and per-program cryptographic separation
- Encryption in transit and at rest; customer-managed keys available
Assurance-grade by default
- Immutable audit trail for every agent action, sensor reading and human override
- SSO/SAML, SCIM provisioning and role-based access down to station level
- Fail-safe stop for drills, fasteners, crawlers and cranes at < 40 ms
- Human-in-the-loop mandatory for airworthiness-critical dispositions
What changes on the floor
Plant directors, liaison engineers and airworthiness leads on what autonomy did to their numbers.
“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
Questions engineers actually ask
Anything else goes to the people who build it. Ask an assembly engineer or read the full FAQ.
It changes the perception models, not the platform. Composite and mixed CFRP/Ti stacks are the hardest drilling case — delamination, burr formation and thermal load all interact — so they get dedicated models. Recall on mixed stacks is currently 98.1%.
Low-rate high-mix programs often see the strongest return, because the cost of a single escape or a scrapped large structure dominates. Defense and space deployments are frequently justified on scrap and escape avoidance alone.
Yes, and that is the ideal time. The as-built twin can be seeded from the as-designed model and tolerance study before the first article, so the first airframe benefits rather than the fiftieth.
Find your segment’s constraint
A line assessment maps one station, quantifies the rework, shim and rate opportunity, and returns a modelled ROI in three weeks. No production disruption.