Digitalizing aerospace manufacturing
Duqueine Group · Timișoara, Romania · 2023–2024
Duqueine makes high-precision aerospace components from advanced composite materials. As process engineer for digitalization, I replaced manual, paper-based processes with web applications across the process, production and maintenance departments, in an industry with strict compliance standards.
In numbers
- Time: recording a maintenance job takes about 40 seconds instead of 6 minutes, and the record exists the moment the work is done, not 3 days later. Reporting is 25% faster, and a new operator learns a process in 3 days instead of 5.
- Money: about 15 hours of typing saved every week, around €10,000 a year.
- Errors: 40% less manual data entry. Missing or unreadable maintenance records fell from 8% to under 1%, with 0 audit findings on them since.
- Adoption: more than 50 users in 3 departments, and document control built with a team of 10 engineers.
- Scale: 120 machines with a barcode, about 6,000 maintenance records a year, 900 controlled documents and 60 digital work instructions.
What I built
- Maintenance tracking with barcode scanning, replacing manual reporting. It cut manual data entry by 40% and made reporting 25% faster, while meeting aeronautical standards.
- Enterprise web applications, comparable to SAP, and add-ons to the existing ERP that streamlined workflows across 3 departments.
- Digital work instructions that make complex processes easier to follow and carry out.
- Digital document control, built together with a team of 10 engineers.
From paper to a scan
Before, a technician finished a job, filled in a paper form, and someone typed it into a spreadsheet days later. The report on what was overdue was only as current as the last person who had time to type.
Now every machine carries a barcode. The technician scans it, picks the task and the result, and saves. The record exists the moment the work is done, with who, what and when, which is exactly what an aerospace audit asks for.
Three taps instead of a form and a typing session.
Beyond the software
I trained and supported more than 50 end users, and coordinated milestones and stakeholder communication throughout. Alongside the digital work, I designed composite components in CAD, modelling and simulating parts to speed up prototyping.