Click Bond
Digital Solutions
For aerospace and defense organizations building and sustaining complex platforms, Click Bond’s Digital Solutions equip the technical workforce with guided, validated, and connected digital workflows, so any technician can execute complex tasks with confidence and accuracy, across manufacturing and sustainment.
An Industry at an Inflection Point
The workforce that builds and sustains today’s most complex aerospace assets faces several pressures:
Experience Gap
Experienced technicians are retiring faster than they can be replaced.
Digital Natives
Incoming talent is digital-first by nature but often lacks quality hands-on experience.
Rising Complexity
Platform complexity keeps growing, and readiness levels on major programs remain well below target.
Rework Risk
Rapid changes in designs and configuration options increase the potential risks of getting it wrong the first time.
Click Bond’s Digital Solutions close these gaps.
Extending the Digital Twin to the Workforce
Click Bond’s Digital Solutions extend the digital twin all the way to the workforce. On the shop floor and in the maintenance depot, we connect people to the right information, guidance, and expertise at the exact moment they need it.
Visual guidance with real-time information access and seamless remote-expert collaboration accelerate performance, reduce errors, and generate the traceability data that drives continuous improvement. It turns scarce expertise into repeatable results, whether you’re building new aircraft or sustaining existing fleets.
Proven Results that Speak Volumes
Unparalleled Assembly Speed: Vertical Aerospace VX-4
At Vertical Aerospace, the incorporation of Click Bond’s XR-guided “soft tooling” for adhesive-bonded fastener location and placement drastically reduced setup, installation, and validation time for thousands of components.
“The application of those 9,500 brackets took roughly three months. We do the whole application now in 5 days.”
Technician Advocacy: MRO 2022, 2023
Click Bond participated in the MRO Americas Aviation Maintenance Competition (AMC), presenting a maintenance challenge in which technicians were exclusively guided by digital instructions through a series of tasks related to the installation of adhesive-bonded components.
- Paperless instructions
- Ninety teams of two participated
- Great success and impressive engagement from all teams
Our sincere gratitude to the participants, who provided valuable feedback on technicians’ preferences and “wish lists” for future digital work instructions.
Your Trusted Partner
When you partner with Click Bond to design and deploy your digital assembly and maintenance support solution, you gain the advantage of:
- Our nearly 40 years of experience in aerospace design for manufacturing and production support expertise, earned on signature civil and defense programs across the air, land, sea, and space domains
- Solutions team members who have directly contributed to successful XR work-instruction deployment at leading aerospace & defense manufacturers, both prime and sub-tier
- Expert guidance, foundational tools, and best practices to ensure deliverables meet not only your productivity goals, but also industry compliance requirements and scalability objectives
- A customer-focused experience grounded in transparency, agility, and value creation
Solution Focus Areas:
Work Guidance
Soft tooling and guidance for aircraft assembly; Fastener Installation
Maintenance & Training
Immersive 3D training for maintenance and field workflow
Research & Development
- Mixed Reality (MR) Alignment
- Wearable + IoT Tool Integration
- AI Computer Vision
- Contextual Search
- Content Pipeline
- Systems Integration
- Industry Standards and Regulation
The talented people working on aircraft — the technicians, the inspectors, the maintainers — are the ones this partnership really serves. The pace of the industry is asking them to do more complex work, more capably, on more platforms, with fewer experienced people to learn from. We believe this solution is giving people the right information, in the right context, at the point of work, so they can execute with confidence and accuracy every time.”
Virtual Product Display
Spin, zoom, and flip the full bonded fastener family in an interactive 3D board, then select any component to explore its features, materials, and applications.
Choose between demo boards for popular aerospace, land, and space fasteners or marine and naval applications, and place the display in your space with augmented reality at true one-to-one scale.
Launch the Display
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