AFI KLM E&M’s Air’Int plane cabin inspection software includes identifying defects on the new issue and plane sorts beginning in May. The software program’s Cabin App application will quickly cover galleys, bathrooms, and cabin group seats, as well as Airbus’s own family aircraft. Cabin App was initially rolled out for Boeing 777 and 737 passenger seats in overdue 2016 and delivered functionality for 787 seats in February 2018. According to Louis Petit-Faisandier, Air’Int task supervisor at AFI KLM E&M, the software program has drastically reduced the MRO’s inspection times and component number mistakes.
Take a 777 Eco Cabin as our instance. Before Cabin App got here out, a cabin inspection used to require mechanics for a whole shift,” explains Petit-Faisandier. “With Cabin App, that project now takes just hours, and possible part quantity mistakes at ordering stage had been considerably reduced, if not abolished altogether. The software program, which runs on a cellular pill, enables technicians to inspect paintings more efficaciously by having access to a 3-D model of the cabin.
Relevant technical documentation. Technicians can pick specific seats where defects have been identified, click on a seat region—including an armrest—and locate the precise component quantity and element preservation guide hyperlinks. A delivery request for the part variety is robotically forwarded to the store, which a representative for AFI KLM E&M says avoids capacity for identification mistakes during part ordering.
After defects had been identified inside Cabin App, they’re proven in a specific color on the application’s three-D model of the cabin. AFI KLM E&M has linked Cabin App to the Maintenix software program it uses so defects can be robotically mentioned, which the organization says creates full-size time savings. AFI KLM E&M presently uses the utility at Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, and Amsterdam Schiphol Airports and will quickly be rolling it out at
Toulouse Blagnac Airport. In addition to functionality for new cabin factor types, AFI KLM E&M is calling a new edition of the app for shipment planes to keep additives, including locks and power force units. The company is carrying out a proof of concept (POC) take a look at for “Cargo App” on two Boeing 777F planes to decide its effectiveness. The organization says the brand new utility will likely perform on a similar principle to Cabin App before being carried out across the board. The Cargo App POC is predicted to be finished using July 2019.
Air’Int is obtainable as a software program as a service answer with a monthly subscription charge in keeping with aircraft, which AFI KLM E&M says varies depending on the total size of fleet and the overall amount of technical documents to be included inside the software. A consultant for the business enterprise says other undisclosed airlines, MROs, and OEMs are presently using Air’Int to “recognize and facilitate their upkeep activities.