Machine classes supported
24
▲ +41% increase
We drive machines we did not build
Rivetira is deliberately not a hardware company. The value is in the loop that runs on top of the drilling machines, trackers and fastening cells your plant already owns — which makes the people who build them our closest partners.
Certified integrators
3
Metrology SDKs integrated
9
Partner-led deployments
38%
▲ +22% increase
Airframes assembled on Rivetira across commercial, defense, business-jet, eVTOL and space-structure programs: 8 factories, 70 assembly stations.
Meridian Aerostructures
Calder Aviation Group
Northvane Defense
Solstice Jets
Helion Air Mobility
Orbital Frame Systems
Machine builders
Flex-track crawler, gantry drilling and automated fastening cell manufacturers whose machines Rivetira drives directly.
- Axalt Automation
- Brennig Systems
- Corvane Machine
- Delvant Robotics
| Machine class | Stations |
|---|---|
| Flex-track crawlers | 22 |
| Gantry drilling | 18 |
| C-frame riveters | 12 |
| Fastening cells | 9 |
| Hand-fed ADUs | 9 |
Metrology vendors
Laser tracker, photogrammetry and structured-light vendors whose SDKs are integrated as first-class metrology inputs.
- Nordmet Instruments
- Pellier Optics
- Quarrin Metrology
| Metrology input | Stations |
|---|---|
| Laser trackers | 31 |
| Photogrammetry | 19 |
| Structured light | 14 |
| Indoor GPS | 4 |
| Arm CMMs | 2 |
System integrators
Aerospace automation integrators who deliver Rivetira deployments on our behalf under a certified delivery programme.
- Hallowfield Industrial
- Kestrel Manufacturing Group
- Sable & Roe Integration
| Delivery model | Stations |
|---|---|
| Integrator-led | 27 |
| Rivetira-led | 43 |
| Joint delivery | 12 |
| Customer-led | 4 |
Cloud & infrastructure
Sovereign and government cloud providers hosting the Rivetira control plane for regulated programs.
- GovCloud regions
- Sovereign EU regions
- On-prem OpenShift
| Topology | Stations |
|---|---|
| Connected edge | 44 |
| On-premises | 17 |
| Air-gapped | 9 |
How an integrator becomes certified
A partner who delivers Rivetira is delivering something that writes instructions to machines building flight structure. Certification is not a logo exchange.
- STEP 01
Technical enablement
Four weeks covering the edge runtime, envelope qualification, OT connectors and the autonomy promotion methodology.
Duration4 weeks
- STEP 02
Supervised delivery
The partner delivers two full stations alongside a Rivetira engineer, owning progressively more of each.
Stations2 supervised
- STEP 03
Assessment
A written and practical assessment on safety architecture, envelope enforcement and rollback procedure. Pass mark is absolute.
Pass rate62%
- STEP 04
Certified
The partner may lead deployments independently, with Rivetira engineering on call and quarterly delivery audits.
Audit cadenceQuarterly
Partner-led deployments perform the same
| Measure | Rivetira-led | Partner-led |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first station | 6.2 | 6.8 |
| Time to closed loop | 7.1 | 7.6 |
| RFT at month 12 | 98.4 | 98.1 |
| Rollback rate | 6.8 | 7.4 |
Why we publish this
A partner programme that hides its delivery quality is a channel strategy, not a partnership. These are the four measures a customer actually cares about when deciding whether a partner-led deployment is acceptable, and the gap is small enough to state plainly.
Partner-led share of new stations
38%
▲ +22% increase
Delivery quality gap
0.3 pts
What integration actually requires
- Control interface
- OPC UA or MTConnect
- Write latency required
- < 50 ms
- Safety circuit
- Cat 3 / PL d independent
- Process feedback
- Thrust, torque, spindle load
- Typical integration time
- 3–6 weeks
- Commercial model
- No revenue share required
- Certification cost
- None to the machine builder
- Joint customers
- Co-sell, not resell
- Support boundary
- Machine vendor owns machine
- IP
- No cross-licensing
- Metrology SDK
- C++ or C# binding
- Point cloud format
- E57, PLY or native
- Sync accuracy required
- ± 2 ms
- Calibration exchange
- Documented transform
- Typical integration time
- 2–4 weeks
Reads and writes back to the machines you already own
Rivetira is not a rip-and-replace. It connects to the drilling machines, crawlers, trackers, shim cells, sealant robots and MES already on your floor over APIs and OT protocols.
Drilling & fastening
- Flex-track crawlers
- Gantry drilling machines
- C-frame riveters
- Automated fastening cells
- Hand-fed ADUs
Metrology
- Laser trackers
- Photogrammetry rigs
- Structured-light scanners
- iGPS / indoor GPS
- Articulated arm CMMs
Shimming & sealing
- 5-axis shim machining
- Liquid shim dispense
- Sealant robots
- Cure monitoring
- Bead inspection
Factory systems
- Assembly MES
- PLM / as-designed models
- ERP work orders
- Quality / NCR systems
- Historians & OPC UA
OPC UA, MTConnect, MQTT, ROS 2, REST and file-drop connectors. Read-only shadow mode first; write-back enabled only after twin validation.
Shadow first. Autonomy is earned, not switched on.
Every agent starts by watching. It is promoted only when its measured accuracy clears the mechanic-plus-metrology baseline and the twin agrees.
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Weeks 1–4
Shadow
Agent observes the station, predicts every outcome, actuates nothing. Accuracy measured against what the mechanics actually do.
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Weeks 4–10
Advisory
Agent recommends feed, shim geometry and sequence. A human accepts or rejects; every rejection becomes training data.
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Weeks 10–20
Supervised
Agent actuates with a human in the loop and a live fail-safe stop. Airworthiness-critical dispositions still require sign-off.
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Week 20+
Closed loop
Agent runs the step. Humans handle exceptions and the twin gates any change to the control policy.
| Week | Agent accuracy | Mechanic + metrology baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | 88.2% | 94.1% |
| Wk 4 | 91.4% | 94.0% |
| Wk 6 | 93.6% | 94.2% |
| Wk 8 | 95.2% | 94.1% |
| Wk 10 | 96.4% | 94.3% |
| Wk 12 | 97.1% | 94.2% |
| Wk 16 | 97.8% | 94.1% |
| Wk 20 | 98.3% | 94.2% |
| Wk 24 | 98.6% | 94.3% |
What changes on the floor
Plant directors, liaison engineers and airworthiness leads on what autonomy did to their numbers.
“We stopped arguing about whether the gap was 0.4 or 0.6 millimetres. The twin predicted it, the shim came off the machine right, and the join closed in one pass.”
−64% shim hours per join
“The rate ramp was going to cost us four more positions. Instead the line rebalanced itself every shift and we found the capacity inside the stations we already had.”
+38% delivered rate
“Every hole is now inspected, not one in four. My airworthiness record writes itself, and I can hand an auditor a complete trace in ninety seconds.”
100% inspection coverage
Assembly autonomy, measured on the line
Every figure below is produced by the same telemetry the agents act on — station cycle, hole quality, gap field, fastener state and conformance. Pilot and design-partner aggregate, trailing 12 months.
Holes drilled under agent control
41.6M
▲ +32% increase
Right-first-time, structural joins
97.9%
▲ +9.1% increase
Shim hours removed per join
68%
▼ -68% decrease
Assembly-line uptime
99.94%
▲ +0.3% increase
Aggregate across design-partner lines. Baselines are the same stations before Rivetira, measured over an equivalent period.
Questions engineers actually ask
Anything else goes to the people who build it. Ask an assembly engineer or read the full FAQ.
No. Integrating a machine class costs the machine builder nothing and earns Rivetira nothing directly. Both sides benefit because a machine that Rivetira can drive is a machine a customer is more likely to buy.
Certified integrators co-sell rather than resell. The customer contracts with Rivetira for the software and with the integrator for delivery, so accountability for the platform never becomes ambiguous.
Often yes, in advisory mode at minimum. Closed-loop control requires a control interface and a safety circuit that meet the specification above; where those are absent, a retrofit is usually cheaper than replacement and we will say so.
Contact us with the machine class or metrology system and the customer programs where it is deployed. Technical integration scoping typically takes two calls before anything is committed on either side.
Build on the assembly loop
A line assessment maps one station, quantifies the rework, shim and rate opportunity, and returns a modelled ROI in three weeks. No production disruption.