iBASEt Announces Customer Appreciation Award Winners at Excelerate 2022

Winners Included Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Northrup Grumman, NASA, AST SpaceMobile, Satellogic, and Moog

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iBASEt, the company that simplifies how complex products are built and maintained, announced this year's recipients of its Customer Appreciation Awards, which celebrate the unique strategies customers in complex manufacturing industries have put in place to successfully drive innovation and evolution in their digital manufacturing, quality and MRO sustainment operations with iBASEt.

The awards were presented at the company's business and user conference, Excelerate, which took place November 7-10, 2022 in Orlando, FL. The event featured informative content, presentations, and real-world, peer-presented case studies representing a cross section of complex manufacturing industries, providing attendees practical, applicable strategies for maximizing the value of their iBASEt investment.

"Back in-person, we are excited to say Excelerate 2022 was an incredible success," said Naveen Poonian, President and CEO iBASEt. "We are proud to host customers from the world's most complex manufacturing industries including medical device, ship building, space, electronics, and aerospace & defense along with a distinguished group of industry thought leaders. Learning from the best and the brightest using iBASEt solutions to drive innovation throughout their organization. We take great pride celebrating our customers' success – and Excelerate offers the perfect stage to honor so many distinguished leaders in our industry."

Highlighted customer presentations included stories and testimonials from industry leaders such as:

• Chelsea Morgan, Sr Process Improvement Leader: Supply Chain; GE Edison Works
• Kristie Coleman, Enterprise Architect; Lockheed Martin

A panel of MRO Sustainment customers including:

• Bertha Shive, Process Analyst – Aftermarket; Moog
• Andrew Bennie, Process Improvement; Insitu

The conference also featured thought leading keynotes from:

• Lt. Col. Waldo "Wingman" Waldman, decorated fighter pilot and New York Times bestselling author
• Rick Franzosa, Sr. Director, Analyst at Gartner with insights on manufacturing transformation and the role of technology

Collins Aerospace
Commitment to Excellence Award
Collins is recognized for their launch and broad deployments of Solumina's functionality and laser-focus deployment of iSeries with as little enhancements as possible. A longtime user, Collins has worked with Solumina since its early stages.

Lockheed Martin – Rotary Mission Systems
Greatest Use of Out-of-the-box Capabilities
Lockheed Martin RMS is recognized for enforcing industry best practices and process re-engineering to approximately 10 thousand users across their business sector. They have gone through several Solumina upgrades. The most recent upgrade focused on 'decustomization' showing that a 50% decustomization can result in significant savings. 

Pratt & Whitney
Model-Based Pioneer Award
Pratt is being recognized for their re-deployment of Solumina with an emphasis on Model Based Enterprise. The first go-live will be in a new greenfield Blade facility in Asheville NC.

Northrop Grumman
Commitment to Advancement of Science
Northrop Grumman is recognized as the lead on the industry team delivering NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The JWSP is the largest, most complex and powerful space telescope ever.

NASA
Commitment to the Advancement of Science
NASA is recognized for the Artemis program which will return to, and eventually colonize, the moon and use that infrastructure to leap-frog to Mars. NASA has used Solumina since 2006 during which they have developed the most sweeping program since the Apollo days.

AST SpaceMobile
iBASEt SaaS Pioneer
AST SpaceMobile is recognized for working on satellite technology that will enable existing smartphones to connect to satellites internationally.  AST SpaceMobile is using iBASEt's Managed Services for SaaS for delivery. AST SpaceMobile is a growing organization taking advantage of Solumina's process planning, execution and quality management capabilities.

Satellogic
iBASEt SaaS Pioneer
Satellogic is recognized for being one of the first SaaS customers with iBASEt. Based in Uruguay and Argentina, Satellogic is a Satellite Imaging Startup with high growth potential.

Moog
Large Scale Enterprise Integration
Moog is recognized for replacing its ERP, PLM and MES across its Aerospace enterprise worldwide over the past two years. Moog recently went live at their first site and has a roadmap for scaling further across the enterprise.

iBASEt is a software company that simplifies how complex products are built and maintained. Founded in Southern California in 1986, iBASEt solutions ensure digital continuity across manufacturing, quality, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) operations on a global scale. The iSeries, powered by Solumina, is a cloud-native platform that establishes a digital ecosystem to drive innovation and improve operational performance. With offices in the U.S., UK, France, and India, iBASEt customers include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney, and Textron. Learn more at iBASEt.com.

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