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."