Industry
Aerospace & Satellite Constellations
Challenge
Manual AIT workflow hitting a ceiling as orders scaled. Testing a single antenna took 8 hours. EN9100 compliance reports assembled manually, 30 minutes per unit.
Results
Antenna test time cut from 8 hours to 15 minutes. Production capacity grew from dozens to thousands of units per year.
Key Product
Connektica Starter
We would not have been able to scale to thousands of antennas without Connektica's MES software.
About Anywaves
Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from the French Space Agency (CNES), Anywaves designs and manufactures space antennas from its base in Toulouse. The company has grown to 50 highly skilled employees and delivered over 1,500 antennas to customers worldwide. Their product portfolio covers S-Band, X-Band, and GNSS/GPS antennas for satellite constellations, serving clients from emerging NewSpace operators to large primes including Airbus, Thales, Loft Orbital, CNES, and Maxar.The Industrial Shift: The Race for Constellations
The space industry is moving from single large satellites to vast constellations of hundreds of smaller units. For Anywaves, that shift meant scaling from dozens of antennas per year to thousands. The constraint was not technical. It was operational. Every antenna destined for orbit must meet EN9100 standards, with every component, measurement, and test result fully auditable. Growing fast while keeping that bar intact required a fundamentally different approach to production.
The Bottleneck: When Manual Processes Limit Growth
As orders grew, Anywaves hit an operational ceiling. Their Assembly, Integration, and Test workflow ran on Excel sheets and Word documents. Raw measurement data was manually transferred into graphics. Compliance reports were assembled by copy-pasting content. Dr. Nicolas Capet identified this as a strategic threat: without a digital system capable of scaling with production, the company's survival in an industrial market was at risk.
"As we moved from small-scale production to large volumes, we knew we needed to change our production processes or the company wouldn't survive."
Dr. Nicolas Capet, CEO of Anywaves
A Digital Backbone for Space-Grade Quality
Anywaves deployed Connektica in three phases. First, automating RF measurements using Connektica's pre-built drivers and API to capture data directly from test benches. Second, automating EN9100 compliance report generation, customized to Anywaves' brand guidelines and customer requirements. Third, digitizing the full assembly and integration workflow, bringing every AIT step into a single system for complete traceability. Beyond automation, two criteria were non-negotiable: data portability, so traceability records remain accessible long-term regardless of tooling decisions, and cyber-security, to protect Anywaves' and their customers' sensitive data.
Impact: Breaking the 8-Hour Barrier
The results were immediate. Antenna test time dropped from 8 hours to 15 minutes. Report generation went from 30 minutes to 5. With time freed from manual data work, Anywaves' AIT technicians now perform 4 to 5 times more measurements per antenna, raising the quality bar for every unit shipped to orbit.
Industrial Agility for the Future of Space
Today, Anywaves operates at industrial scale. Standardized digital processes allow new AIT technicians to onboard faster without compromising quality. Production lines can be duplicated across sites, with centralized data giving real-time visibility across locations. As Anywaves moves into more complex antenna programs, multiplying components and tests by a factor of 10 to 100, Connektica will extend further into supplier coordination, early defect detection, and automated AIT operations.
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