IBM Maximo Aviation

With Maximo® for Aviation and fleet asset management, aviation companies can increase the efficiency of how they schedule and manage the maintenance of their aircrafts in order to maintain regulatory compliance. It also helps in minimizing the periods for which an aircraft is grounded.

Fleet asset management allows for the efficient maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) of an aircraft. In the long run, it helps increase the availability of flights and also helps extend the life of an aircraft’s components, like its engines or airframes. With fleet asset management, airlines can manage their MRO services internally. They have the option to purchase either some or all of these services from the MRO providers, and can in turn also offer these MRO services to other airlines.

Planning and organizing the maintenance

• Planning maintenance involves first monitoring the condition of the aircraft and its equipment. Then work has to be scheduled at a suitable repair location where there is an availability of the necessary materials, tools, and labor skills required for the particular task.
• Task cards and master task cards are used to specify the regular maintenance work that is to be done for an aircraft or its equipment. This also includes frequency intervals, which refers to due maintenance, based on calendar dates, meter readings, or both.
• Task cards basically provide a detailed description of all the maintenance work that is to be carried out. Task cards are associated with job cards, work orders, and work packages, where work packages group together task cards and work orders that are related or similar.
• MRO locations can be configured to define the physical location as well as the classification and capabilities, to associate work packages with the particular location. Capacity planning can be performed to schedule the aircraft or equipment at the relevant MRO location for the full duration that has been estimated for the required maintenance work. This scheduling can be done months or even years in advance. One may even graphically assign a work order to the labor at a hangar for a particular period of time, like 2 weeks.

Manage regulatory compliance with fleet asset management

• This management software allows for the configuration of the maintenance steering group (MSG-3) inspection programs as well as the progressive inspection programs. You can build a maintenance task library that can be used with operator maintenance programs and maintenance planning documents. In the technical records, you are allowed to record maintenance actions that are taken in response to the directives of airworthiness.