INFORM, a leading global provider of Agile Resource Optimization for the aviation industry, announced today its latest entry into the aircraft base maintenance software arena: Its Base Maintenance solution. The solution follows the path of INFORM’s other leading-edge offerings with its market-responsive functionality that effectively addresses the greatest base maintenance challenges. In addition to helping airlines and MRO providers meet their safety requirements, manage inspection findings, and realize an improved check progress monitoring, INFORM´s Base Maintenance solution targets the complexities of base aircraft maintenance. It does this by facilitating enhanced automation, communication, staff allocation and task planning.
How to deal with these challenges?
First of all the system needs to know about the tasks that need to be carried out. Therefore it retrieves planning data from the MRO system and then calculates how much staff is required based on this input. Having received the task cards from the MRO system for an aircraft, INFORM’s Base Maintenance solution is an information resource keeping management apprised of available staff and their individual qualifications. Equally important is how the software supports the roles of staff members, from the production planning engineer, shift planner and dispatcher, to the lead engineer, other engineers, technicians, mechanics, electricians and IFE specialists. For example, production planning engineers can more efficiently plan maintenance activities, check spare part availability and coordinate with the dedicated material suppliers. The software gives them a full view of their hangar’s utilization and operations. Applying INFORM´s Base Maintenance solution, they can monitor different checks concurrently, instantly see which checks require their attention, and easily consolidate data pertaining to each running and planned check. This, in turn, helps them achieve more balanced workloads and promotes optimum resource utilization. With its full mobile workflow capabilities, the Base Maintenance solution streamlines communication considerably and makes task status updates easily accessed on mobile devices.
INFORM’s Base Maintenance supports automated staff communications and facilitates efficient planning and coordination of staff availability. Dispatchers and lead engineers are better able to make staff assignments, monitor work flow progress, manage unforeseen and record ad-hoc tasks. The availability of all relevant data on a mobile device further reduces voice communication. Staff members can receive information on their mobile devices and report on work status. When new findings, which for example exceed the planned workload are uncovered during the inspection phase the software informs the user about this mismatch, so that appropriate adjustments can be done by authorized users.
INFORM’s Base Maintenance also delivers robust documentation support. The solution keeps track of each check, documenting exceptions as they occur, saving the change work-order history as well as the related user and timestamp. The history is recorded on how each check has been implemented with remarks and advisories noted.
INFORM’s Base Maintenance solution can be set-up in various configurations. The solution relies on retrieving MRO data from external MRO systems. The software creates these tasks based on demand and factors such as work order type, aircraft type or group, location, skills needed to complete the tasks, state of package or work order, and scheduled interval as noted on plan. Tasks assignments reflect the required license, duration, and dependency on prior completed steps. A link to a task card and the work package is created
What is the result?
For airlines and third-party MRO providers seeking the latest advancement in base maintenance solutions, INFORMs Base Maintenance solution delivers functionality to increase operational efficiencies, lower operating costs, and optimize task allocation. The end result is a solution which arms the airline or MRO provider with a competitive edge derived from optimized resource management and improved aircraft availability which in turn, support an airline’s on-time performance.
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