
Challenge
- Low productivity of expensive 3rd party aircraft mechanic labor due to unavailability of parts.
- Tasked with ensuring 100% availability of parts on demand.
- The customer had no visibility into inventory movement and turns.
Approach
- Utilize smart vending industrial solutions to deliver parts to aircraft mechanics on demand.
- Enable auto-reorder for inventory that breaches minimum thresholds and track quantities in real time.
- Enable full visibility to both the supplier and customer enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
Results
- Eliminated mechanics’ wait time for parts.
- Placed 15 AutoCrib TX750’s across 15 hangars in three locations across the U.S.
- Used Tier1 MRO’s Crib Connect® to provide full Integration of data into both customer’s and supplier’s ERP systems.