A part is hard to find
A part is no longer available or sourcing it complicates maintenance.
Industrial software and support
Hard-to-source parts? Prepare for on-demand manufacturing.
GhostMatter organizes your digital inventory: your parts’ technical records, qualification status and links to orders. Our industrial support helps you assess candidate parts and prepare for on-demand manufacturing.
Identify parts to assess
Prepare part records and approvals
Organize future manufacturing
Prepare part records and approvals
Organize future manufacturing
Industrial needs, a shared approach.
When a part becomes difficult to source.
An unavailable part, scattered information or manufacturing conditions to clarify: identify what needs to be assessed before the next need arises.
Information is scattered
Drawings, files and requirements need to be brought together to assess the part.
Conditions need approval
Application, material, process and acceptance criteria need to be defined before manufacturing.
Physical stock and on-demand manufacturing: prepare the right mix.
Some parts need to stay in stock. For others, reviewing the data, application and manufacturing requirements can help prepare an alternative.
Physical stock
- Parts to keep available
- Maintenance needs
- Requirements to assess
Digital inventory
- Industrial digital twin
- Quality requirements
- Qualification status
On-demand production
- Defined supplier
- Approved conditions
- Tracked orders
The digital twin: the foundation for quality management.
In GhostMatter, the digital twin is essential to quality management in MaaS (Manufacturing as a Service): manufacturing delivered as a service. It connects the part’s technical data, requirements, manufacturing conditions and validation information to provide a reference for successive manufacturing orders.
Part data
Files, technical requirements and application constraints.
Preparation and part qualification
Selected manufacturing conditions and approvals agreed with your teams.
Manufacturing follow-up
Inspection documents and order history associated with the part.
A shared reference to prepare, validate and track manufacturing. Part qualification remains a human decision for a defined application and set of conditions.
The GhostMatter approach: from need to on-demand manufacturing.
Four steps with your teams, from the first discussion to subsequent manufacturing.
Define the need
Identify the parts, their application and the available information to define what needs to be assessed.
Assess and prioritize
Review the requirements and preliminary feasibility. Decide which parts need further investigation, should be ruled out or may be suitable for a pilot.
Pilot and decide on part qualification
Prepare the records and carry out the agreed tests. Part qualification approves the part for a defined application and manufacturing conditions, based on acceptance criteria agreed with the teams involved.
Use and develop the digital inventory
Following approval, organize access and the ordering process around the selected parts. Use their records for manufacturing requests and tracking, then develop the inventory as needs evolve.
Start with your industrial needs.
Spare parts, maintenance, additive manufacturing or distributed capacity: assess the parts and requirements relevant to your situation.
Industrial spare parts
Assess parts that could be manufactured on demand, alongside the stock you need to keep.
Industrial maintenance
Prepare hard-to-source parts before the next need arises.
Additive manufacturing industrialization
Define requirements and approvals to move from a pilot to subsequent manufacturing.
Distributed manufacturing capacity
Organize requests with the suppliers and capacity planned for each part.
An initial conversation about your parts
Start with the parts causing you problems.
Tell us about a few parts and the difficulties you face. We can then clarify the information needed and the next steps to consider.