Sabre Airline Solutions - Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul

MRO | Maintenance Management | Rotables Allocation Planning

As the cost of running an airline increases and competition intensifies, airlines are demanding efficient and effective maintenance and engineering of their fleets, a necessary goal to achieve optimal utilization of resources, improved performance and decreased costs. The ability to minimize inventory holding of parts while maintaining acceptable parts availability levels is also important in an airline’s operation.

See the products described below that address these primary concerns.

MRO

The Ramco MRO System* offers an aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul application that is all-encompassing and easy to use. Plus the system is delivered over the Internet and remotely accessed through the Sabre® eMergo® Web access environment. Designed for fleet operators, MRO providers and OEM organizations, the system and its accompanying functions have been designed and developed from the ground up for the aviation industry, effectively addressing all necessary business and regulatory requirements. The main system functions include:

• Engineering
• Technical Records
• Materials
• Materials-Demand Matrix Optimization
• Procurement
• Maintenance Projection, Planning and Scheduling
• Maintenance Operations – Line, Hangar, Engine and Shop Maintenance
• Quality Control / Quality Assurance
• Reliability
• Warranty and Repairs
• Full Rotable and Serialization Management and Tracking
• Maintenance Human Resources
• Maintenance Financials
• Sales and Third-Party Management
• Tools & Special Equipment Management
• E-Log (E-Book)
• Aviation/MRO Manufacturing
• Drill-Down Analysis and Reporting

The Ramco MRO System also incorporates modern technologies such as built-in workflow, digital signature (e-signatures), fax / e-mail interfaces, electronic flight bag (EFB), mobile computing / WAP technologies, bar coding, user reporting tools, graphical information display of information and integration with automated warehousing carousals. The system helps reduce operational and overhead costs while optimizing inventory, increasing operational performance and aircraft availability and improving overall business process efficiency. The Ramco MRO System, which is SEI-CMM Level 5 certified, provides accurate and detailed projection of direct and indirect maintenance costs. The Ramco clients experience the highest degree of functional fit to their processes.

The Maintenix® MRO system* is a comprehensive maintenance, repair and overhaul system that delivers integrated functionality for maintenance, engineering, materials and fleet management through these interconnected modules:

• Line Maintenance
• Heavy Maintenance
• Shop Maintenance
• Maintenance Engineering
• Materials Management
• Fleet Management

The Maintenix system has been specifically designed to handle the unique complexities of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul. It offers unrivaled configuration management and maintenance work-flow capabilities. With a modern architecture, the system provides advanced capabilities such as a Web interface, automated role-based workflow, support for portable wireless devices and streamlined integration with ERP and other information systems. Capitalizing on the Maintenix system functionality, airlines can achieve a reduction in the operational and maintenance costs associated with maintenance-related flight delays, regulatory fines, inefficient maintenance and surplus or obsolete inventory.

* Sabre Airline Solutions does not own this mark.

Maintenance Management

The Sabre® Maxi-Merlin™ maintenance, engineering and inventory system is an integrated, Web-enabled, mission-critical system that addresses the key aspects of a commercial airline’s maintenance business needs. The system helps an airline maintain flight integrity by minimizing excessive disruptions and unplanned downtime due to maintenance events. It efficiently allocates inventory to minimize cost and avoid stock shortages. The system’s built-in automation decreases labor-intensive forecasting and planning tasks, thus increasing maintenance productivity. The system also assists with safety and compliance concerns of regulatory agencies.

A return on investment can be realized in as few as three months with the Maxi-Merlin system. More than 40 airlines of all sizes under regulatory agencies use the system to reduce costs, increase productivity and improve fleet reliability.

Rotables Allocation Planning

The Sabre® Rotables Allocation Planning System is a flexible data-driven and easy-to-use decision-support system designed to help an airline minimize inventory ownership and shortage costs, all while maintaining an extensive inventory of high-value, rotable spare parts at all stations. It provides a recommended stock level and distribution, enabling inventory managers to confidently plan and accurately control all facets of the rotable parts distribution process. The system also addresses the challenging task of determining station allocations and managing rotable parts inventory in a cost-effective manner.

With the Rotables Allocation Planning System, an airline can improve daily operations in numerous ways:

• Minimize inventory carrying costs while meeting or surpassing user-specified part service levels,
• Provide the highest quality service through efficient allocations
  of assets to stations by minimizing the chances of part shortages,
• Increase accurate inventory projections as a result of system-recommended values, such as the number of assets to own or stock and part allocations to meet stations’ needs.