Earlier this month, regional aircraft manufacturer ATR and national flag carrier, Air Algérie signed the first Digital Maintenance Documentation package. The airline are the launch customer of this new service which is intended to strengthen the airline’s maintenance documentation system, optimising the engineering operations for its fleet of 15 ATR aircraft.
This will take three-party cooperation, with ATR providing customers with raw data of line maintenance publications in XML format, which is then uploaded into Air Algérie’s own maintenance management systems using Swiss-AS’s AMOS program that facilitated the digitalisation of airline maintenance management.
Laid Bouchama, Technical Director of Air Algérie said:
“We are proud to be the launch customer of this new service that will help us streamline our daily maintenance procedures, reducing downtime and increasing our fleet’s availability. This three-party cooperation ensures that we all benefit from the greatest expertise in terms of on-the-ground operations, engineering insights and digitalisation, to the benefit of our passengers who will appreciate the reliability of our service.”
The technology is anticipated to deliver time and cost savings, whilst elevating safety and compliance. It will enable Air Algérie to shorten revision processes, make the distribution of publications swifter and paperless, reduce preparation time for maintenance checks, standardise the structure and format of its documentation, improve information consistency across all aircraft manuals, and automate revision tracking and document control.
This sits within a wider trend towards paperless processes and operations. In April, Berk Atakan, Paperless Maintenance Project Manager, SunExpress will be speaking at Aerospace Tech Week discussing the transition to paperless aircraft maintenance operations. The agenda will be released imminently, so stay tuned.
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