April - 2013 - issue > View Point
Powering Lean Airline or MRO through cloud Enabled Tablets
Dinakara Nagella
President & CEO-EmpowerMX
Driven by ever-changing business models, global competition, high fuel costs and other unavoidable doing-business costs, fleet aircraft operators have developed a simple business strategy – control operating costs across the broad spectrum of the aircraft maintenance cycle by implementing processes designed to mitigate economic fluctuations.
Many fleet aircraft operators have realized some value and savings by outsourcing their aircraft maintenance activities to established MROs. In turn, these airlines/MROs are increasingly applying Lean/Six Sigma principles and techniques to their operations to achieve dramatic and sustainable performance improvements.
Unfortunately, most Airlines/MROs never realize peak effectiveness from these initiatives because they have failed to properly support them with an IT solution that provides the broad visibility and effective data needed for true knowledge-based decisions.
In this day and age of fast developing technology the primary goal should be to create a truly global mobile Terminal Operations Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) experience that can:
• Access technical documentation and operations
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