Operators - Fleet Management

Designed for passenger airlines, cargo carriers, helicopter flight services, and business jet operations, IFS Applications offers fleet operators best-of-breed tools to maximize equipment utilization and drive down maintenance as well as inventory costs. More than ever, fleet operators need to perform a delicate balancing job between economic and regulatory requirements. The goal is to keep aircraft or helicopters in revenue-earning service while ensuring that they don’t overfly required maintenance tasks. When maintenance tasks are being scheduled, they need to be packaged in the most time- and cost-effective manner.

Our packaged solution helps achieve the right balance by

• Minimizing aircraft downtime through proactive scheduling of preventive maintenance and by providing all information required for quick decision-making in AOG situations
• Ensuring regulatory compliance through automated reminders of  airworthiness directives (ADs), maintenance program inspections, and deferred maintenance items (DMIs)
• Controlling costs by reducing inventory levels and optimizing maintenance yields
  

IFS Applications is able to satisfy these critical business issues because it was designed to be comprehensive, responsive, and conclusive—attributes that add up to a complete solution and offer a wide array of benefits.

It is comprehensive in that it provides for full aircraft configuration management. This enables users to keep accurate records of

• All individual aircraft configurations, including component exchanges
• All operational parameters (flight hours, flight cycles, operational hours, engine hours, etc.) per aircraft and aircraft components for which these parameters need to be tracked
• All life-limited parts on an aircraft
• All performed maintenance tasks and modifications per aircraft
• All ADs, SBs, and DMIs due for each aircraft 

It is responsive in that it helps planners optimize work packages by

• Calculating maintenance due dates based on flight schedules
• Identifying material and resource requirements for each maintenance activity
• Bundling work orders with similar requirements to optimize maintenance efficiency 

It is conclusive in that it provides up-to-the minute data based on

• Interfaces to aircraft flight data and operations systems
• Built-in analysis capabilities for identifying failure occurrences and trends
• Recognizing availability of each MRO facility with the required skill sets and material 
• Correlating availability of these MRO facilities with flight schedules, aircraft locations, and maintenance tasks
• Providing long-term visibility into material requirements, thus allowing for inventory reductions 

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