INDUSTRIES
Aerospace & Defence
Real-Time Control for Mission-Critical Operations
Ubisense enables aerospace and defence operations to track assets, tools, and personnel in real time—delivering the precision, compliance, and situational awareness needed across production, logistics, and training environments.
With SmartSpace®, teams gain the visibility to reduce errors, recover lost equipment, and meet strict regulatory or security standards—all through a flexible, low-code platform.
Process Optimization in Aerospace
Ubisense Process Monitor for Aerospace provides complete, automated, end-to-end visibility of every stage of production.
The real-time location and movement of aircraft assemblies, tooling, kits and parts are tracked using high-performance Dimension4 ultra-wideband sensors and tags.
As assemblies move into and out of defined workspaces, important location events are recorded and can be used as a trigger to update business systems, people, or machine controls.
SmartSpace® – Use Cases for Defense Operations
Modern defense operations require complex coordination between personnel, vehicles, equipment, and sensitive materials. Below are examples of how Ubisense SmartSpace® and DIMENSION4™ have been used to demonstrate real-time visibility in controlled environments—as a simulation of real-world defense applications.
Safe Around Ammunition and Ordnance
Dimension4 tags operate using ultra‑wideband (UWB) at very low power levels (typically around –41 dBm/MHz, per FCC/ETSI limits). These low‑power pulses create no known risk to nearby sensitive equipment or explosives, and have operated for years in industrial and defence sites without interference complaints.
Designed for Secure Defence Use
Dimension4 supports UWB ranging based on the IEEE 802.15.4z standard, which introduces cryptographic timestamp scrambling and improved signal integrity. This significantly reduces the risk of signal spoofing or replay attacks — making it suitable for secure, defence-grade deployments.
Aerospace Manufacturing
From complex assembly lines to tight compliance requirements, aerospace manufacturers rely on precision and accountability at every stage. Ubisense helps ensure that tools, components, and personnel are always in the right place at the right time—reducing delays, avoiding rework, and supporting traceability from start to finish.
Solutions for Aerospace
WIP Visibility & Control
Ubisense overlay a real-time digital twin plugged into actual production flow using software-defined work zones
- Monitoring & enforcing production security, quality & provenance (PPAP / APQP)
- Automated WIP-Inventory checks
- Enhanced process measurement and analytics
- Enable flexible and automated WIP steering and orchestration
- Reduced WIP levels (reduce money tied in inventory)
- Eliminate search times
- Reduced lead time on delivery / corrections
- Rework becomes traceable
- Improved traceability and audit compliance
- Effective isolation of non-conforming WIP
- Achieve KPI on Ageing WIP
- Increase Right First Time rates
- Achieve Waste Reduction targets
- Reduced risk of audit failure from missed compliance checks
Tooling Management & Control
Ubisense location-enables the entire production environment, making moving assets visible and controllable.
- Real-Time Tracking: Tools and equipment are tagged with RFID, barcodes, RTLS, or GPS for precise location tracking, ensuring they are easily located, securely transferred, and accounted for, even during international shipments.
- Automatic Monitoring: The system detects unauthorized or misplaced tools, roaming outside designated zones, and alerts when tools are not returned to stores on time.
- Maintenance Integration: Maintenance and calibration schedules are tied to real-world usage, with automated alerts to ensure compliance with operational standards.
- Efficiency Features: Includes automated tool check-out/return via kiosks, direct tool delivery to technicians, and dynamic scheduling based on real-time demand and location.
- Inventory and Performance Management: Offers real-time insights into tool availability, condition, usage, and downtime, aiding lifecycle management, procurement, and operational efficiency.
- Usage Analytics: Detailed reporting on tool performance and reliability identifies areas for improvement and informs strategic decisions.
This system significantly enhances operational efficiency, tool accountability, and compliance within manufacturing and maintenance environments.
Logistics Management & Control
- Ubisense optimizes material and parts management workflows with real-time tracking and digitization capabilities. Key processes include inventory receipt, storage, picking, kitting, and kit inspection, with tools and parts tagged using RFID, barcodes, RTLS, and GPS for secure tracking and accurate location monitoring.
- Technicians can book materials through an app and receive real-time updates on material readiness, transit progress, and delivery, while transportation managers gain centralized control over delivery requests and operations.
- Automated and semi-automated checks improve inventory control and Kanban processes, eliminating errors in storage, picking, or delivery. Digital delivery requests and a driver app streamline transportation workflows, enabling visibility and error-proofed handovers. The system also generates audit trails and historical data, ensuring traceability and compliance while optimizing inventory flow and reducing waste.
Enhanced MES/ERP/PLM Systems
- SmartSpace brings visibility to planning, management and control systems (MES, ERP, PLM), making real-world processes involving moving assets visible and measurable.
- Bridge data gaps between MES, ERP, PLM
- Spatial and situational insights through open APIs
MRO
Uncover and reduce invisible process waste in MRO. Ubisense provides a platform to monitor the location, flow and interaction of everything in your complex maintenance, repair and overhaul operations.
The ability to see everything, everywhere gives your existing systems the super-power to find and eliminate previously invisible process waste, increasing productivity and preventing errors.
Our Aerospace Customers
Proven in the Real World
Ubisense has applied everything we know about UWB technology to DIMENSION4—not just to make it technically best-in-class, but to ensure it performs reliably where it matters most.
Chosen by organizations operating in complex environments, DIMENSION4 delivers precise, 24/7 location data to support critical processes with complete confidence.
