How an aerospace MRO provider improved its data quality from 53% to 93% in 8 weeks
This aerospace MRO manufacturer was losing productivity, decision quality, collaboration, and revenue to inaccurate data in its ERP. With Pelico’s Manufacturing Orchestration Platform, it improved its data hygiene from 53% to 93% within eight weeks, and made clean data a cornerstone for daily decisions.
The starting point
Year-over-year growth
25%
Open orders in WIP
300
Daily updates to WIP status
80+
People involved in updating operational data
30
Challenges
The challenges
The factory was growing quickly, and in this fast-paced ramp-up, teams operated outside of IT tools. They worked in silos, in a parallel universe of Excel sheets, to manage the volatility of daily operations. As a result, the ERP wasn’t updated with the latest changes, and data hygiene suffered. Productivity, decisions, collaboration, and revenue all took the hit.
- Factory teams operated in silos with outdated data, leading to operational inefficiencies.
- Inconsistent data caused frequent production and delivery delays.
- Poor insight into WIP resulted in resource misallocation.
- Inaccurate data affected production levels and impacted revenue.
- Misalignment on data led to poor cross-team collaboration.
- Productivity was lost to suboptimal data management, putting output volume at risk.
Objectives
The objectives
The factory needed data it could trust. With accurate data, teams could spend less time correcting it, deliver on time, and work from the same picture across functions.
- Reduce WIP and improve production flow with accurate data.
- Minimize data correction time to focus on higher-value tasks and increase productivity.
- Ensure on-time delivery through reliable data.
- Manage resources better to lower operational costs.
- Use data accuracy to increase production and maximize revenue.
- Enable smooth collaboration and teamwork with unified data.
The Fix
The fix
As part of deploying Pelico’s Manufacturing Orchestration Platform, Pelico’s teams helped the factory clean its operational data, with go-live in two months. Deploying Pelico created a new level of transparency on data: all teams started collaborating over a common view of information, and inaccurate data became visible.
By combining the initial data cleaning with coaching users on the value of data hygiene, Pelico started a virtuous data hygiene loop: users clean up bad data, use clean data for daily decisions, and operations improve.
- Solution: MRO
- Scope: one factory, MRO operations
- Teams: factory users who update operational data, supported by Pelico’s teams on cleaning
- Timeline: go-live in two months; data hygiene from 53% to 93% within eight weeks
Related reading: Factory data hygiene: definition, importance and best practice
The results
Data hygiene
93%
Turnaround time
-35%
Part shortages
-77%
Past-due supply POs
-98%
On-time delivery
+15%
WIP
-18%
Within eight weeks, the factory improved its data hygiene from 53% to 93%. With accurate data, it could streamline its processes and speed up production cycles. Fewer components went missing, so production flowed with fewer disruptions.
Clean data made purchase orders easier to track, which improved supplier relationships, and better planning led to more reliable delivery schedules. Accurate data and collaboration across teams changed the factory’s operations, making clean data a cornerstone for daily decisions and overall performance.
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