How Skyroot Aerospace Automated Its Rocket Manufacturing Clean Rooms in 2 Weeks

When a rocket factory runs on clipboards and guesswork

Think of a hospital ICU where the life-support machines have no monitors, no alarms, and no automatic controls — a nurse must walk bed to bed every few hours, read the dials by hand, and write readings onto a clipboard. Miss one round, and a patient deteriorates unnoticed. That was exactly the situation inside Skyroot Aerospace's clean rooms in Hyderabad. Four Air Handling Units — the life-support of the rocket manufacturing environment — were switched on and off manually by operators who walked the floor, read gauges, and logged data by hand. Every part leaving this facility must meet strict temperature and humidity specifications before it can be certified and handed to clients. Yet one missed reading, one shift handover gap, or one overnight lapse was all it took to create out-of-spec conditions and scrapped rocket parts.

The result:

• 4 AHUs switched on/off manually by BMS operators with no automated scheduling or failover
• No centralised visibility — temperature, humidity, and particle count checked room by room, shift by shift
• No automatic data logging — compliance reports for rocket component certification had to be assembled by hand
• Human error risk in a zero-tolerance environment: an out-of-spec clean room means scrapped components and delayed launches
• Energy consumption of the AHUs was completely untracked, making cost optimisation impossible

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