Inside Solumina: The Digital Backbone for Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing
What does it take to manage manufacturing where failure simply isn’t an option?
In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott continue their digital product series with Sung Kim, CTO of iBase-t, for a deep dive into the Solumina platform—a manufacturing operations management system designed specifically for complex, highly regulated industries like aerospace and defense.
Unlike traditional manufacturing systems that simply record what happened, Solumina is designed to actively guide production processes, enforce quality requirements, and maintain full traceability across the product lifecycle. Sung explains how the platform connects engineering intent to shop floor execution, integrating capabilities like MES, embedded quality management, supplier quality, MRO, and model-based manufacturing into a unified operational data model.
The conversation explores the architecture behind the platform—from early two-tier systems to today’s cloud-native, microservices-based infrastructure—and how Solumina enables organizations to scale across global manufacturing sites while maintaining compliance, security, and operational continuity.
If you’re curious about how modern manufacturing systems evolve from systems of record into systems that guide what happens next, this episode delivers a rare look under the hood.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why MES alone isn’t enough for complex aerospace and defense manufacturing
- How Solumin integrates MES, quality management, MRO, and supplier quality into one platform
- Why a unified operational data model is critical for AI in manufacturing
- How manufacturers integrate Solumina with PLM, ERP, and shop floor systems
- What model-based manufacturing looks like in real-world production
- Why cloud-native architecture and microservices matter for manufacturing software
- How digital systems help preserve institutional knowledge as experienced workers retire
Key Topics Discussed
- Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) platforms
- Aerospace and defense manufacturing systems
- Digital thread and model based enterprise
- Embedded quality management systems (EQMS)
- Supplier quality integration
- Maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) workflows
- AI-driven manufacturing operations
- Cloud-native industrial software architecture
About the Guest:
Sung Kim is the Chief Technology Officer at iBase-t, where he leads the company’s long-term technology vision and product architecture for the Lumina manufacturing operations platform. With more than 20 years of experience as a technology architect and computer scientist, Sung focuses on building scalable, secure systems for complex, highly regulated manufacturing environments.
Before joining iBase-t, Sung worked in telecommunications and academia, teaching undergraduate and graduate students while publishing research in leading international journals and conferences, including ACM and IEEE. His work today centers on advancing modern, cloud-native manufacturing platforms that connect engineering, production, quality, and maintenance across the digital thread.
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