The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences featured Atlanta-based PartWorks in a member spotlight published in late 2025, offering the most comprehensive public overview to date of the company's full product ecosystem. Where earlier coverage focused primarily on RepAR, the NCMS feature revealed the complete portfolio -- five distinct technologies that together form an integrated platform for aircraft structural repair, life extension, and digital documentation.
RepAR remains the flagship. The AR system uses hands-free goggle-based guidance combined with real-time, airframe-level data capture for structural holes, recording local coordinates, diameters, edge margin, torque and force readings, and process states. The system is AI-trained and designed to evolve with customer input, tagging every measured value to its exact location and creating a durable digital thread for quality management, PLM systems, and sustainment analytics.
TitanLoc is PartWorks' thin-wall, shrink-fit-emulating bushing. It is engineered for high push-out resistance and consistent interference without requiring technicians to handle cryogenic materials -- a safety and efficiency improvement over traditional shrink-fit installation processes that have long been a friction point in depot-level maintenance.
StrataX is a residual-stress bushing technology designed to improve damage tolerance and fatigue resistance in high-load, vibration-prone, or heavy-wear structural locations. It addresses the underlying stress mechanics of fastener holes subjected to cyclic loading, rather than treating only the visible surface symptom of corrosion or wear.
EdgeMax is a cold-expanded sleeve product that restores damaged holes, preserves edge margin, and mitigates ongoing corrosion. It is designed for situations where hole damage has progressed to the point where standard repair methods would require significant material removal -- and the edge margin required to maintain structural integrity is at risk.
PrecisionFX is PartWorks' battery-powered hydraulic puller, a programmable handheld tool that installs expanded-fit bushings and rivetless nut plates without hydraulic lines. It integrates directly with RepAR to validate that every installation meets its specified parameters and records the proof digitally.
Together, these five products serve defense programs, depots, repair stations, airframe OEMs, and airlines. The NCMS spotlight noted that PartWorks closes the loop from design to MRO by capturing as-installed parameters and linking them to each hole and part -- supporting certification, compliance, and better-informed life-management decisions across the aircraft's full service life.
Source: NCMS -- https://ncms.org/news/partworks-member-spotlight/