Trace upstream
Open a finished assembly and follow its genealogy down to the material heat, through every operation, machine, tool and sign-off.
Mfg / Provena
Every part can show
where it came from.
Provenance and traceability for aerospace and advanced manufacturing. For any material, component or assembly, Provena records who did what, under which procedure revision, with what evidence, and what else is affected.
ACT-0002Actuator assembly
- H-0142HousingNCR-0001 · reworkedAL-24-0412Al 7075 · heat NA-55120 · Northline AluminumCoC · mill cert
- S-0302ShaftHS-8821317-4PH heatMill cert
- R-0202Rod endCT-4471Ti-6Al-4V heatMill cert
- BRG ×2BearingsBRG-24-0425Purchased lotCoC
Demo data · Meridian Aerostructures
Six questions an auditor asks, answered from one record.
Today the answers are split across travellers, spreadsheets, certificate folders and someone’s memory.
- Where did it come from?
- Supplier lots, heats and certificates behind every part.
- What happened to it?
- Each operation, inspection and rework, in order.
- Who did it?
- Attributable sign-offs tied to a named person and role.
- Under which revision?
- The procedure revision is pinned at the moment of work.
- With what evidence?
- CoCs, mill certs, CMM results and photos stay attached.
- What else is affected?
- Every part and assembly downstream of a suspect lot.
Upstream, through a quality event, and downstream.
Keep the failures
A failed inspection opens an NCR. Rework and reinspection are added to the record, and the original result is never overwritten.
Contain downstream
Mark a lot suspect and Provena lists every affected part and assembly, shipped or not, and raises containment on what is still in the building.
One suspect lot. Every part it reached.
A supplier flags stainless lot SS-24-0418. Provena follows it through a lot split into six shafts, then into three actuators, one of them already delivered to a customer.
Suspect lot
SS-24-0418 split → SS-24-0418-BShafts
S-0301S-0302S-0303S-0304S-0305S-0306
Assemblies
ACT-0001 shipped · Aurelian Aircraft ACT-0002 containment raised ACT-0003 containment raisedBuilt for regulated shop floors.
Ledger
Hash-chained history
Custody and quality events are append-only. An administrator can recompute the chain and confirm nothing was edited after the fact.
Procedures
Pinned revisions
Operations record the work instruction revision in force when the work was done, not the one that is current today.
Sign-off
Separation of duties
Operators record work; only quality roles can disposition it. The API enforces it, not just the screen.
Shop floor
Offline iOS and Android
Scan a part tag, record an operation and attach a photo without signal. Records sync when the device reconnects.
Isolation
One tenant per organization
Row-level security in the database keeps each organization’s parts out of another’s search, graph and downloads.
Integration
An open API contract
Every request and response is described in OpenAPI 3.1, so ERP, MES and inspection systems can feed the same record.
Questions
What Provena is, and isn’t.
Is Provena certified to AS9100 or similar standards?
No. It is built for teams that run AS9100-style quality systems, but Provena itself is not certified to any standard.
Are sign-offs legal electronic signatures?
No. They are attributable confirmations by a named, authenticated user with a PIN. They are not qualified electronic signatures.
Do operators need a connection on the floor?
No. The mobile apps queue work locally and sync it when the device reconnects.
Can we start with one programme?
Yes. A single part family or assembly line is a good first scope. We set it up with your real lot and part numbering.
Bring a part number you can’t trace today.
Discuss a programmeWe’ll walk through how its genealogy, quality events and impact would look in Provena.