Aerospace Component Lifecycle Ledger

Replace fragmented paper logs, spreadsheets, and siloed databases with a single source of truth. Every component's journey—from manufacture to installation, maintenance, and retirement—is immutably recorded.

• Real Example: A major airline reduced its time-to-locate a specific engine part's service history from 3 days to under 3 minutes.
• Key Benefit: Drastically cuts administrative overhead and eliminates costly reconciliation errors between OEMs, MROs, and operators.

Provide FAA EASA and other regulators with real-time, cryptographically verifiable proof of compliance. Every maintenance action, part replacement, and inspection is time-stamped and signed.

• Key Benefit: Shift from reactive, labor-intensive audit preparation to proactive, continuous compliance.
• ROI Driver: Avoids multi-million dollar fines and grounding penalties by ensuring traceability is built-in, not bolted-on.

Automate warranty validation and claims processing with smart contracts. Terms are encoded on-chain, triggering automatic payouts or part replacements when conditions are met.

• Key Benefit: Eliminates months-long disputes between airlines, MROs, and OEMs over warranty coverage.
• ROI Driver: Reduces working capital tied up in disputes and cuts claims processing costs by over 70%.

Combat the $5B+ global counterfeit parts problem. Track every component back to its OEM source, including sub-tier suppliers. Ensure airworthiness with a complete lineage.

• Key Benefit: Guarantee part authenticity, improve safety, and reduce the risk of operational delays from suspect parts.
• Real Example: An MRO network reduced its risk exposure by instantly verifying the provenance of 100% of incoming rotable parts.

Create a rich, permissioned data ecosystem. Combine immutable maintenance records with IoT sensor data to enable predictive analytics.

• Key Benefit: Shift from scheduled to condition-based maintenance, increasing aircraft utilization and preventing unscheduled downtime.
• ROI Driver: Airlines can monetize anonymized, aggregated performance data with OEMs to co-develop better, more reliable components.

The Pain Point: A single missing maintenance record for a turbine blade can trigger a $500k+ warranty dispute and ground an aircraft. Manual, siloed logs create liability gaps.

The Blockchain Fix: An immutable, shared ledger creates a single source of truth for every part. Smart contracts automatically validate service intervals and part provenance. This reduces administrative reconciliation by up to 70% and cuts warranty claim processing time from weeks to hours.

The Pain Point: Manual audits for airworthiness directives (ADs) and maintenance logs are labor-intensive, error-prone, and risk non-compliance fines.

The Blockchain Fix: Immutable audit trails provide regulators with real-time, verifiable proof of compliance. Smart contracts can be programmed to automatically flag components affected by new ADs and track mandatory inspections, turning a reactive process into a proactive, automated one. This slashes audit preparation costs and mitigates regulatory risk.

The Pain Point: Uncertain maintenance history depresses the resale and lease value of aircraft components, tying up capital in underutilized assets.

The Blockchain Fix: A verifiable digital twin of each part's complete lifecycle—manufacture, installation, maintenance, repairs—becomes a value-adding asset. This proven history can increase residual values by 15-25% and enable new revenue models like component-as-a-service leasing with transparent usage tracking.

The Pain Point: Complex, global supply chains with multiple tiers make it difficult to verify part authenticity, leading to safety risks and revenue loss from counterfeit parts (a $2B+ annual problem).

The Blockchain Fix: Each component receives a tamper-proof digital certificate at birth (manufacture). Every transaction—from OEM to MRO to airline—is recorded. This creates an unforgeable chain of custody, allowing any participant to instantly verify a part's authenticity and origin, securing the supply chain.

A focused pilot on a single component family (e.g., landing gear) delivers measurable ROI:

• Cost Avoidance: Reduce warranty and dispute resolution costs by 30-50%.
• Efficiency Gain: Cut manual data entry and audit prep by thousands of labor hours annually.
• Revenue Enablement: Increase asset liquidity and value through provable history.
• Risk Mitigation: Virtually eliminate counterfeit part risk and streamline regulatory reporting.

Start with a 6-month proof-of-concept to quantify savings before scaling.