What does it mean to be a “Smart Factory?” In the conquest to be the refreshing and unfettered competitive alternative in a stagnant aerospace manufacturing industry, it means more than going lean and even more than going digital: at Elite Aviation Products we leverage the power of IoT to interconnect machinery with multi-level personnel to pilot real measures of effectiveness. Finally, we go the extra long and worthwhile mile to integrate excellence through streamlined processes for managing facility, production, and software configurations: what I call CMoT.