Aerospace and Defense: Electronics

Manufacturing Context

Aerospace and defense manufacturers require deep traceability from finished assemblies down to individual components, along with calibrated tooling records and controlled documentation. The industry demands precise quality assurance for both customers and auditors.

This manufacturing model requires full visibility across production, quality control, inventory management, and document control.

Success Story: ConexSmart

ConexSmart is an aerospace and defense wire harness manufacturer based outside of Denver, Colorado. Entering a regulated market, they needed a fully integrated ERP system capable of supporting:

• General Ledger
• CRM and quoting
• Purchasing
• Inventory management
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Quality management
• Document control
• Customer invoicing and support

A critical requirement was alignment with ISO 9001 and AS9100 quality management standards.

After evaluating six ERP vendors, ConexSmart selected Cetec ERP as the system that met both their operational and compliance needs.

Why Cetec ERP Fit Their Model

Aerospace and defense manufacturing is tightly regulated. With Cetec ERP, each phase of ConexSmart’s production process is traceable, auditable, and controlled within one system.

Serialized inventory with lot and date code traceability connects purchased material to production, inspection, shipment, and invoicing. Multi-level BOMs support harness builds and engineering revisions. Inspection records and Certificates of Conformance are generated directly from production data.

The system captures the full manufacturing lifecycle without requiring disconnected tools or manual reconstruction of records.

Cetec ERP supports robust quality requirements while recording production and inventory activity in real time, ensuring documentation reflects actual manufacturing events.

ConexSmart Project Results

Cetec ERP provided the operational foundation ConexSmart needed to launch and scale. The system supports:

• End-to-end document control on production orders, including Certificates of Conformance, RoHS documentation, serial lists, component detail, and labor detail
• Serialization and lot traceability from purchased material through work-in-process to shipment
• Multi-level BOM management with live production data collection
• Real-time material planning driven by current demand and inventory levels
• Structured incoming, in-process, and final inspection workflows

ConexSmart went live within one quarter and began processing aerospace RFQs with full traceability and controlled documentation in place.

“To go from a business plan in late August to working our first RFQ in mid-November is simply amazing and we couldn’t have done it without Cetec and their support.”
— Keith Vierela, CEO, ConexSmart

The company built its operational process on a single system designed to support regulated manufacturing from the start.