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.

Minimize aircraft downtime

Our packaged solution for fleet management helps achieve the right balance between aircraft availability and safety through proactive scheduling of preventive maintenance and by providing all information required for quick decision-making in AOG situations, thus minimizing aircraft downtime. IFS Applications helps ensuring regulatory compliance through automated reminders of airworthiness directives (ADs), maintenance program inspections, and deferred maintenance items (DMIs). Our integrated solution also improves cost control by reducing inventory levels and optimizing maintenance yields.

Comprehensive solution

IFS Applications is designed to be comprehensive, responsive, and conclusive—attributes that add up to a complete solution and offer a wide array of benefits. The comprehensive solution provides for full aircraft configuration management, which 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  

IFS Applications responsiveness helps planners optimize work packages by calculating maintenance due dates based on flight schedules, identifying material and resource requirements for each maintenance activity, and bundling work orders with similar requirements to optimize maintenance efficiency.

Powerful decision support

Providing 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, IFS Applications offers powerful decision support. This also includes 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, as well as providing long-term visibility into material requirements, thus allowing for inventory reductions.

Business Benefits

The IFS solution for fleet management and MRO provides industry-leading tools to address critical business issues and better support your business of operating and maintaining aircrafts. That’s because IFS is the only solution partner who can offer best-of-breed fleet management and MRO functionality as integral parts of a larger, enterprise-wide solution. 
IFS Applications enables your company to

• Minimize aircraft downtime through smart scheduling of routine maintenance tasks and quick decision-making in AOG situations
• Ensure regulatory compliance through automatic reminders and easy record keeping
• Contain costs by optimizing maintenance yields and reducing inventory levels
• Collaborate with customers and suppliers in real time online
• Integrate MRO and fleet management with the rest of your enterprise
  for greater overall control and efficiency.