But It's Becoming More And More Important

By ANN Senior Editor Peter Combs

Face it. The worst part about working in almost any aviation job is the paperwork. It's dry, time-consuming and generally takes a fair genius to figure out -- especially when it's government paperwork.

Seeing that heaping mound of paperwork before you might lead to drooping eyelids, spark your memory about some important task that needs doing BEFORE the paperwork gets done (clipping your toenails, for instance) or trigger a sudden urge to play golf.

But in a world of paperwork that's -- face it -- horribly un-sexy, maybe the sexiest thing under the sun is a company that greatly eases the burden of that paperwork.

So, if you follow my twisted logic, you must agree that Avexus is dead sexy.

Avexus bills itself as the answer for companies that own, operate, manufacture, supply, maintain, repair, and overhaul high value, complex assets. Like aircraft.

"So many maintenance accountability systems are based on the 'task card' concept," said Avexus President and CEO Rich Bergmann. "We have overall operational control, network visibility, and reporting and analysis."

So what's that mean to airline operators and maintainers? Avexus says:

A view into the current status of all planes within a fleet, classifying them by their current operational readiness.

Consolidation of all outstanding tasks for each plane that is currently out of service, including tasks that are not immediately due

Mapping of plane availability against current demand forecasts

An overview of maintenance work, including capabilities mapping, current utilization and capacity by location

Alerts into operational situations that require immediate attention, including demand/plane availability conflicts, requests for action from other members of outsourced networks and potential "opportunity maintenance" situations

Those sorts of benefits could be especially important to Part 145 operators -- the folks who handle outsourced maintenance -- and the people who actually do the outsourcing (the airlines).

"With Network Manager, operators responsible for accountability document management can monitor how outsourced maintenance is performed," Bergmann said.

"Inspections are very manual processes," said Bergmann, "especially with low-cost carriers. So much of their operations are outsourced. So, yeah, we're definitely pursuing trying to sell compliance to carriers and that's not a sexy sell. But selling the compliance masters is very viable."

Ka-ching.

"Inspectors can use our software to monitor "A" and "B" checks and the like. We're going to try to cover both the offense and the defense on the compliance issue."

FMI: www.avexus.com