WHAT IS MessengAIR?
Another great idea within COLIBRY.
An Ops Manager and his Maintenance Manager, some time ago, came asking for support dealing with a PPI and a 1C Check. They kept complaining that the MRO was exaggerating on maintenance costs, among other things a TCAS replacement. Minimum 3 emails per day with so many reports, NDT, pictures… Overwhelming!
The MTX Manager did not really bother with this as he thought that this was none of his concern. Maintenance had to be done and paid for. Period. Fair enough! It’s not his money so why should he care? Right? Well, questionable!
The Ops Manager was overwhelmed and said: “I know they are dodging me, but I can’t prove anything. And he went on “ I did see things with my own eyes, but I have no argument to negotiate”.
“The essential is invisible to the eyes!” quote The Little Prince.
This is how the idea of MessengAIR © came.
A system where transparency and facts would speak for themselves without wasting precious time in wasteless meetings. A system dedicated to one specific aircraft where all stakeholders could communicate without disrupting their habits, keeping their email addresses, backed by AI and very specific algorithms. A system, where within seconds, as a main stakeholder, anyone could reach out for proper data that has been extracted and frozen within the system. Undisputable facts. At any given time within the aircraft life cycle.
This is where the digital clone comes in handy as well. You believe what you see, a reflection of the physical reality. It’s mapped to MessengAIR. Not only do you see, but you locate, you cost control, you task and cost analyze, you judge, and you make informed decisions.
Transparency as a strategy.
Most Operators have accepted the balancing of these tradeoffs as necessary costs of doing business and employ a variety of techniques (manual checks, scheduled maintenance, data from individual assets, etc.) to optimize manually as best as possible. But even combining these less-than-ideal options in the most logical way possible is manual and extraordinarily costly, some reporting staggering maintenance costs of up to 40 percent (or more) of total costs.
Balancing and benchmarking maintenance costs is a major challenge. There’s no simple equation, and in most cases maintenance management comes down to weighing a series of cost-related tradeoffs:
- Unnecessary repairs
- Catastrophic failures
- Underused labor
- Increased downtime due to unavailability
- Unused spares
- Waiting cost
FRACAS
Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System, is a closed loop process for handling any type of issue that you want to track and manage. An integral part of MessengAIR ©.
Once an issue or incident is recorded in MessengAIR ©, a FRACAS defines a controlled workflow path for correction and eventual close-out.
COLIBRY’s well-designed FRACAS provides trackable statistics and helpful aids such as dashboard overviews. These features allow you to gain a clear understanding of system performance metrics, such as reliability.
Predictive maintenance often allows for the detection of impending failures that could never be detected by human eyes. With predictive maintenance, downtime and repairs are directly tied to likely failure, minimizing cost (less downtime, less labor time, less chance of unexpected failure) and maximizing asset life.
A lack of the complete picture surrounding the state of a given asset contributes to both the breakdown of equipment and rising costs. This is where MessengAIR © comes into play.
Understand the need through main cost drivers, waste, inefficiency and identify the best use case for the Operator.
The primary differentiator is not just taking past data and doing static analysis but also, using real time data to predict future asset performance or issues at any given time and having a real-time feedback loop in place to act on those predictions.
Maintaining a fleet presents challenges not mentioning costs and downtime when repairs are required mid-voyage, so there’s additional incentive to implement predictive maintenance strategies.
Understanding elements (structures – components – equipment) and the damaging elements (corrosion – fatigue – stress).