AEROSPACE & DEFENSE ▸ SPACE COAST ▸ AS9100 · ITAR-AWARE
Your MES can't see your shop floor. We wire the layer underneath it.
HillPoint Automation builds the OT architecture that makes AS9100 traceability automatic and rate production possible, for mid-tier space and defense manufacturers scaling from prototype to flight.
Worth a 15-minute call?You didn't buy the wrong MES. You bought it before you built the thing it was supposed to read from.
Your PLCs, test stands, and environmental chambers are islands. Traceability lives in spreadsheets and the heads of two senior techs. The next AS9100 audit is on the calendar. And the ramp commitment your program signed assumes all of this somehow holds at 3x rate.
The fix is the layer underneath the tools you already own.
Traceability lives in spreadsheets and Slack threads instead of a queryable system of record.
Two senior technicians are the only people who actually know how the floor runs. One of them can retire whenever he wants.
Audit prep is a two-week fire drill. Every time.
Your MES dashboard is live, with nothing real feeding it.
Last time you pushed rate, stations idled and work instructions failed. The system was architected for low-rate builds. Scaling was never designed in.
CMMC Level 2 goes mandatory November 2026, and every new data or control system you stand up has to clear it.
We've stood on your floor. We've also stood on the one you're trying to become.
NASA launch pad. Controls engineering on launch-pad systems, where a missed sensor reading is on the news that night.
Airbus OneWeb Satellites. Founder Will Cordero held senior SCADA and MES roles through the scale-up to 700+ satellites, shipping more than two flight units a day. The MES work he engineered there was credited with seven-figure savings.
What stood out on the OneWeb line was the silence. Nobody running around with a clipboard, nobody asking which torque value went on which fastener on which serial number. That silence is engineered, and it comes from the OT layer almost everybody skips. HillPoint is how a mid-tier manufacturer gets it without the eight-figure budget.
Three outcomes. Not a menu of services.
Wire the floor to the MES.
PLCs, test stands, and environmental chambers unified into one data backbone. Ignition, MQTT Sparkplug B, and an ISA-95-shaped Unified Namespace, built the way auditors want to see it.
Make AS9100 a walkthrough, not a fire drill.
Which unit, which operator, which process parameters. Answered in under 60 seconds from a live query. No clipboards. No tribal knowledge.
Engineer the silence rate production requires.
No running around. No reconstructing shift reports from memory at 6pm. The data is in the right shape the moment anyone asks. And the architecture holds when the rate doubles.
Everything HillPoint builds on this track is CMMC-aware and export-control-aware from the first drawing: US-person delivery, on-prem where required, segmented, access-controlled, with the audit trail written as a function of how the system runs. A generic SCADA shop retrofits that. It doesn't hold.
Read the full breakdown of the OT architecture behind high-rate satellite production.
A reference architecture diagram, fully annotated. A written walkthrough of every layer from PLC to ERP. The four most common gaps we see on real floors. Free. No sales call attached. Email opt-in, PDF in your inbox.
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Got a ramp that scares you, or an audit on the calendar?
Fifteen minutes with an engineer. Bring the ugliest problem on your floor and you'll hear what we'd look at first. No pitch, no discovery script. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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