Automated Spare Parts Recovery & Matching

Unlock the value trapped in slow-moving and obsolete inventory. A shared, permissioned ledger creates a verified parts marketplace where OEMs, MROs, and operators can instantly discover and transact. This converts depreciating assets into immediate working capital, improving balance sheet health and freeing up warehouse space for critical items.

• Real Example: An aerospace MRO reduced its $12M in obsolete parts by 40% within 18 months by listing them on a blockchain-based industry exchange.

Eliminate the manual, time-intensive hunt for rare parts. Smart contracts automate part discovery, verification, and payment, slashing administrative overhead. Provenance tracking ensures part authenticity, removing costly inspection delays and disputes.

• Typical ROI: Companies report a 60-80% reduction in the time and labor costs associated with sourcing and selling surplus parts. Transaction settlement times drop from weeks to minutes.

Meet stringent regulatory requirements (e.g., FAA, FDA) with an immutable record of every part's journey. From manufacture to installation, each maintenance event, certification, and ownership transfer is cryptographically sealed on-chain. This creates a single source of truth for auditors, drastically simplifying compliance reporting and reducing liability risk.

• Business Impact: Provides defensible proof of compliance, potentially lowering insurance premiums and avoiding multi-million dollar fines for documentation failures.

Leverage part usage and performance data from the blockchain to feed AI/ML models. Gain unprecedented visibility into failure rates, lifecycle costs, and demand patterns across the entire ecosystem. This enables true predictive maintenance scheduling and optimized inventory forecasting.

• Quantifiable Benefit: One heavy machinery manufacturer used this data to reduce unplanned downtime by 25% and optimize its just-in-time inventory, saving over $8M annually in holding costs.

Move beyond one-time sales to recurring revenue streams. Enable parts-as-a-service models, fractional ownership, or performance-based leasing—all governed by transparent smart contracts. Foster a trusted ecosystem where data sharing creates collective value, attracting more participants and increasing marketplace liquidity.

• Strategic Advantage: Transforms the spare parts function from a cost center into a strategic platform business, creating new customer touchpoints and revenue channels.

Eradicate the multi-billion dollar problem of counterfeit parts. A unique digital twin (NFT) for each physical component provides cradle-to-grave provenance. This ensures only authentic, certified parts enter the supply chain, protecting brand integrity and safety. Automated smart contracts can also enforce and execute warranty terms instantly.

• Industry Pain Point: The global automotive counterfeit parts market exceeds $45B. Blockchain verification provides a definitive solution, protecting revenue and reducing warranty fraud.

Before: Decommissioned or unused parts are written off as scrap or lost in storage, creating a direct financial loss.

After: A blockchain-verified digital twin for each part enables automated identification, valuation, and listing on secondary markets. This turns idle inventory into a new revenue channel. For example, an airline can instantly verify and sell a decommissioned engine turbine blade with a complete maintenance history, recovering significant capital.

Before: Matching a needed part with an available one across global warehouses involves manual calls, spreadsheets, and emails, leading to errors and weeks of delay.

After: A shared, permissioned ledger provides a single source of truth for part availability, specifications, and location. Smart contracts can automate the matching and reservation process. This reduces the procurement cycle from weeks to hours and eliminates reconciliation costs between divisions or partners.

Before: Paper-based logs and siloed databases make it impossible to reliably trace a part's origin, maintenance, and regulatory compliance, creating liability risks.

After: Every repair, inspection, and transfer is immutably recorded on-chain, creating an unbreakable audit trail. This is critical for:

• Aviation (FAA/EASA): Proving airworthiness.
• Defense (ITAR): Ensuring component origin and handling.
• Warranty Claims: Automatically validating coverage based on verifiable service history.

Before: Companies overstock 'just-in-case' inventory to mitigate supply chain uncertainty, tying up massive capital in warehouses.

After: Real-time visibility into the global pool of available, certified parts across the entire partner ecosystem enables a true just-in-time model. This reduces the need for safety stock, slashing inventory carrying costs—which typically represent 20-30% of the inventory's value annually—and freeing working capital.

A consortium of airlines, OEMs, and MROs implemented a blockchain ledger for aircraft parts. The results provided a clear ROI justification:

• Reduced part sourcing time from 45 days to under 3 days.
• Eliminated 100% of paperwork-based disputes between partners.
• Unlocked $200M+ in previously stranded inventory across the network for resale or reuse. This model is directly applicable to automotive, rail, and heavy machinery sectors.

Acknowledge the challenges to build credibility:

• Integration: Requires APIs into existing ERP (SAP, Oracle) and IoT systems.
• Consortium Building: Success depends on onboarding key ecosystem partners (suppliers, service providers).
• Phased ROI: Start with a high-value, low-volume part category (e.g., turbine blades) to prove value before scaling. The business case is strongest for parts with high value, long lifecycles, and strict compliance needs.

The Pain Point: Manual parts identification is slow and error-prone, leading to mis-matches, wasted labor, and scrapped assets.

The Blockchain Fix: A shared, immutable ledger creates a single source of truth for part numbers, serials, and specifications. Smart contracts can automatically match a recovered part to a live demand order, verifying its provenance and service history.

Example: A decommissioned jet engine part is scanned, its digital twin on-chain is instantly matched with a maintenance order from another airline, creating a verified, high-value secondary market transaction.

The Pain Point: Industries like aerospace and heavy machinery require exhaustive compliance documentation (FAA, EASA, OEM). Paper trails are vulnerable and expensive to audit.

The Blockchain Fix: Every event—manufacture, installation, maintenance, removal—is cryptographically sealed to the part's digital identity. This creates an unforgeable audit trail that is instantly accessible to authorized parties.

ROI Impact: Drastically reduces audit preparation costs and liability risk. Enables compliance with emerging circular economy and carbon footprint reporting mandates by proving sustainable asset recovery.

The Pain Point: The global market for counterfeit parts exceeds $7B, risking safety, voiding warranties, and damaging brand integrity.

The Blockchain Fix: A part's on-chain provenance, from OEM to final installation, is its certificate of authenticity. Scanning a part's QR code or RFID tag reveals its entire history, making counterfeits impossible to pass off.

Example: An airline MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) shop can instantly verify a part is genuine and still under OEM warranty before installation, protecting multi-million dollar assets.