Synapses — BlueGPS

BlueGPS tracks tools, ground support equipment, materials, parts, work zones, and technician maintenance activities in one live operational view, following resources continuously as they move between stores, workshops, hangars, and aircraft work zones.

BlueGPS provides real-time location intelligence for aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations.

BlueGPS tracks tools, ground support equipment, materials, parts, work zones, and technician maintenance activities in one live operational view. The platform combines indoor and outdoor positioning, allowing MRO teams to follow resources continuously as they move between stores, workshops, hangars, and aircraft work zones.

BlueGPS can process data from location technologies including BLE, UWB, GPS, RFID, and other operational data sources. Each asset retains one digital identity across every environment, creating a consistent record of its location, status, movement, and operational history. This gives maintenance teams the real-time execution data that is often missing from MRO, ERP, planning, and inventory systems.

The platform does more than display assets on a map. Its location-based rules engine can detect events, verify that the right people, tools, equipment, and materials are present, identify deviations, trigger alerts, and update connected business systems. This creates a live digital representation of work as it is being carried out, rather than relying only on plans, manual updates, or retrospective reporting.

What can you do with BlueGPS?

BlueGPS helps aircraft maintenance organizations improve control over the physical activities that influence turnaround time, productivity, quality, safety, and compliance.

Monitor work package execution - BlueGPS can measure dwell time, record task sequences, verify the co-location of required resources, and provide an accurate view of progress against plan. This helps supervisors identify bottlenecks, coordinate work, and respond before delays affect aircraft turnaround time.

Improve tool control and calibration compliance - Monitor tool location, movement, availability, and usage across aircraft, bays, and shifts. Rules can identify missing, misplaced, unauthorized, or out-of-calibration tools and provide time-stamped records to support tool-control procedures, audits, and foreign object damage prevention.

Increase asset and equipment utilization - Locate ground support equipment, test equipment, tooling, stands, carts, and other shared resources without time-consuming manual searches. Historical movement and dwell data show how equipment is being used, where shortages occur, and where underused assets may be creating unnecessary capital expenditure.

Synchronize materials and parts with maintenance activity - Follow parts and materials from stores and kitting areas to the point of use. BlueGPS can confirm that required items are present before work begins, detect stalled deliveries, monitor time spent outside controlled storage, and align material movement with task schedules.

Improve technician safety and zone control - Create digital work, safety, access, and exclusion zones around aircraft and equipment. The system can verify whether authorized personnel are present, identify unsafe proximity, record entry and exit events, and issue alerts when defined rules are broken.

Designed for faster deployment and simpler operation

BlueGPS allows each use case to employ the positioning technology and level of accuracy it needs. A maintenance organization can use higher-precision tracking in aircraft work zones, broader area-level visibility for equipment, and GPS coverage outdoors, without applying the same infrastructure across the entire facility.

This approach helps avoid over-engineered installations. It reduces installation effort, controls infrastructure costs, and allows organizations to start with a defined use case quickly and easily before expanding across additional assets, processes, buildings, or sites.

The platform's configuration tools and an intuitive user interface also reduce training requirements and make the system easier for local teams to manage.

Proven in aerospace operations

Airbus Helicopters uses BlueGPS to track mission-critical assets across three sites. The deployed system supports more than 10,000 assets simultaneously, with sub-second latency and location precision of up to one meter. It tracks tooling, orders, materials, and operational events while integrating BLE, GPS, and existing systems.

The project delivered payback within 12 months and has supported greater asset visibility, reduced risk from misplaced equipment and foreign object damage, faster operational decisions, and improved management of work-in-progress.

Additional capabilities

- Real-time asset, equipment, tool, and personnel tracking - Indoor and outdoor location and positioning - Location-based workflow automation - Digital maps and operational digital twins - Tool control and calibration monitoring - Foreign object damage risk reduction - Ground support equipment tracking - Materials, parts, and kitting visibility - Technician safety and access-zone monitoring - Equipment utilization and dwell-time analysis - Bottleneck and process-deviation detection - Heatmaps, movement history, analytics, and reporting - Automated audit trails and maintenance traceability - ERP, MRO, MES, WMS, and OT system integration - Multi-site asset visibility and management

What BlueGPS Delivers

• ⧖Work package execution — Measures dwell time, records task sequences, verifies co-location of required resources, and shows progress against plan so supervisors can spot bottlenecks before they hit turnaround time.
• ❖Tool control & calibration compliance — Identifies missing, misplaced, unauthorised, or out-of-calibration tools with time-stamped records supporting tool-control procedures, audits, and FOD prevention.
• ⌖Asset & equipment utilisation — Locates GSE, test equipment, tooling, stands, and carts without manual searching; movement and dwell data expose shortages and underused capital assets.
• ⇌Materials & parts synchronisation — Follows parts from stores and kitting to point of use, confirms items are present before work begins, and detects stalled deliveries.
• ✵Technician safety & zone control — Digital work, safety, access, and exclusion zones verify authorised presence, flag unsafe proximity, and log entry and exit events.

Proven in Aerospace Operations

• ✈Airbus Helicopters — Mission-critical asset tracking across three sites — 10,000+ assets simultaneously, sub-second latency, precision to one metre, payback inside 12 months.

Additional Capabilities

• ⌖Real-time asset, equipment, tool, and personnel tracking
• ⊕Indoor and outdoor location and positioning
• ✵Location-based workflow automation
• ◈Digital maps and operational digital twins
• ◈Heatmaps, movement history, analytics, and reporting
• ❖Automated audit trails and maintenance traceability
• ⇌ERP, MRO, MES, WMS, and OT system integration
• ⦿Multi-site asset visibility and management