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List of major functions and modules (for details, consult the concerned article of chapter 5 of this manual)

 

- Activity module

 - Fleet list / new aircraft activation & deactivation

 - Aircraft data sheets and aircraft technical situation sheets

 - Flight hours and cycles recording

 - Management of commercial flights / ferry / passengers on board, etc..

 - Technical logs recording - quick snags

 - Fluid consumptions

 - Commercial condition (cabin technical logs)

 - Aircraft situation (incl. commercial and operational situation)

 - Fleet & activity statistics including CO2 emission reporting

 - Monthly activity reporting

 

- Airports sub-module

 - Airport search by ICAO / IATA code

 - Airport providers (fuel / maintenance / pax services etc.) and contact details

 

- Maintenance Requirements module

 - Design of Maintenance Programs

 - Management of reference documents (MRB, MPD, CMR, ALI, CDCCL, etc.)

 - Airworthiness Directives analysis and recording

 - Management of SB, Task cards, Engineering orders, Kardex (LCP)

 - Management of modifications and repairs

 - Management of shelf life, tool calibrations

 - Management of owner defined maintenance tasks

 - Maintenance procedures including detailed operations and graphical data

 - Maintenance Program amendment procedures

 - New maintenance requirements validation process (amendments)

 - Reverse maintenance requirements by reference documents

 - Material resources, man power and specialities, access        

 - Maintenance status

 

- Maintenance Works module

 - Complete and partial view of maintenance forecast to any time scale

 - Work orders recording and edition including graphical data

 - Launching of work orders to the production department or sub-contractors

 - Links to provisioning requests (PR)

 - Links to installation and removal tags

 - Real time follow-up

 - Forecast visual planning

 - Management of deferred works, additional works

 - Direct links to previous embodiments

 - Management of aircraft related tasks as well as uninstalled components

 - Links to invoices (to customers and to providers)

 - Compliance history

 

- Reliability sub-module

 - Computing of the Maintenance Program reliability

 - Computing of the components reliability

 - Computing of the corrective maintenance reliability

 

 

- Kardex (LCP) sub-module

 - Comprehensive view of installed components per aircraft

 

- Modification (standards) sub-module

 - Management of aircraft's and component's modifications (standards)

 

- Work packages sub-module

 - Automatic preparation of work-packages (per check block)

 - Reporting of the scope of works

 - Real time follow-up of work packages (with bar codes support)

 - CRS issuance (when the work package is performed in house)

 - Computation of total estimated men hours per speciality, access opening/closing

 - Required materials

 - Invoicing classification (Routine / Non routine / Additional / IDOI)

 

- Nomenclature / PN module

 - Identification of material references

 - Reliability (observed and expected by the manufacturer)

 - ETOPS classification

 - Approach category classification

 - Logistic and freight information

 - Purchase history

 - Available resources

 - Definition of stock positions and minimum quantities

 - Stock re-ordering        

 

- Part/Batch module

 - Components data sheet

 - Back to birth history

 - Airworthiness status and conditions

 - Values (purchase / residual / book / sale)

 - Stock inventory

 - Component's ownership

 - Management of assemblies / sub-assemblies

 

- Logistic / Purchase module

 - Flow processing, strong relationship/ information sharing between all sub-modules

 - "to do" item list for each sub-module

 - Provisioning requests (PR)

 - Request for quotes (RFQ) including automatic generation (see RFQ sub-module)

 - Ordering (PO / Repair / Requisition)

 - Material movement documents (Reception, shipping, transfer)

 - Installation / Removal tags

 - Management of pool contracts (Requisitions / Restitutions)

 - Purchase technical and financial follow-up (Invoices, payments)

 - Sales technical and financial follow-up (Invoices, payments)

 - Quotations to customers

 - Full shipping information including freight (see AWB sub-module)

 

- Air way bill (AWB) sub-module

 - Freight and customs information incl. invoice for customs

 - Multiple orders per AWB

 - AWB tracking

 - AWB invoices follow-up and cross-checking

 

- Request for Quotes (RFQ) sub-module

 - Providers / sub-contractors centralized management (see Contact Manager sub-module)

 - All open quotations listing

 - Automatic identification of providers (by product family / price catalog)

 - Compare all quotes in a single view

 - Automatic sending of RFQ by e-mail

 - Full recording of previous quotes

 

- Alerts sub-module

 - Consult the alerts currently active sorted by kind and level

 - Subscribe / unsubscribe to the automatic alert notice

 - Resolve the alerts

 

- Management / Company files & meeting sub-module

 - Creation of tailored meeting

 - Minimize meeting duration and maximize its efficiency

 - Permanent meetings with on-line management

 - Corrective action / answers monitoring / acceptation / rejections

 

- Management / Management board sub-module

 - Monitoring of global logistic activities

 - Stock levels analysis

 - Logistic costs analysis

 

- Management / Human Resources  sub-module

 - Personnel list and details (Ground & Crew)

 - Personal files with authorizations and related training (Ground & Crew)

 - Logs of experience (Ground & Crew)

 - Training schedule (Ground & Crew)

 - Computing of personnel availability

 - Issuance of identification cards

 

- Document & Manual sub-module

 - Management of the company's documents and manuals (Flight Ops & Technical)

 - Recording of dispatch history

 - Status of manuals and documents per site

 - Automatic dispatch

 - Schedule of document reception / update checking

 

- Bar code reader sub-module

 - All AMS documents code scanning

 - Real time work-package execution

 

- Map viewer sub-module

 - Earth charting with operational information

 - Airport information

 - ACARS and SITA movements information

 

- Quality Assurance module (with iCare SMS)

 - Audit preparation (recording of templates)

 - Management of the audit planning

 - Automatic audit reports

 - Corrective actions follow-up