Technicians will soon perceive and document defects in galleys, toilets, cabin group seats—and doubtlessly even shipment additives—using AFI KLM E&M’s Air’Int software. The software program will start in May by identifying defects in the new components and aircraft types. The software’s Cabin App application will soon cover galleys, lavatories, cabin group seats, and Airbus’s own family plane.
The Cabin App was rolled out for Boeing 777 and 737 passenger seats in late 2016 and introduced functionality for 787 seats in February 2018. According to Louis Petit-Faisandier, Air’Int task supervisor at AFI KLM E&M, the software has considerably reduced the MRO’s inspection times and component range errors.
“Take a 777 Eco Cabin as our example. Before Cabin App got out, a cabin inspection required two mechanics for a whole shift,” explains Petit-Faisandier. “With Cabin App, that project now takes just hours, and viable part quantity errors at the ordering level have been appreciably reduced if not abolished altogether.”
The software program, which runs on a cell tablet, enables technicians conducting inspections to work more efficiently by getting access to a 3-D cabin version and applicable technical documentation. Technicians can pick precise seats in which defects have been identified, click on a seat vicinity—such as an armrest—and discover the perfect element variety and component renovation manual hyperlinks. A supply request for the component variety is automatically forwarded to the store, which a representative for AFI KLM E&M says avoids the potential for identification errors throughout part ordering.
After defects were identified within the Cabin App, they were proven to be the exclusive color in the application’s 3D cabin version. AFI KLM E&M has connected the Cabin App to the Maintenix software program it uses so defects can be routinely pronounced, which the corporation says creates big-time savings. AFI KLM E&M uses the software at Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, and Amsterdam Schiphol Airports and could soon roll it out at Toulouse Blagnac Airport.
In addition to functionality for brand new cabin thing kinds, AFI KLM E&M is calling for a new version of the app for cargo aircraft keep components, including locks and strength pressure devices. The corporation uses evidence of idea (POC) test for the “Cargo App” on two Boeing 777F aircraft to determine its effectiveness. The company says the brand new application will, in all likelihood, operate on a similar principle to Cabin App earlier than being implemented throughout the board. The Cargo App POC is predicted to be completed in July 2019.
Air’Int is offered as a software-as-a-service provider answer with a month-to-month subscription price consistent with a plane, which AFI KLM E&M says varies depending on the overall fleet size and general quantity of technical files included in the software. A consultant for the company says different undisclosed airways, MROs, and OEMs are presently using Air’Int to “recognize and facilitate their renovation sports.”
