Challenges

  • Monitor aircraft maintenance tools in maintenance areas, remote tool stores, and in emergency interventions
  • Combat FOD* and safeguard maintenance (*Foreign Object Debris or Foreign Object Damage)
  • Optimize costs
  • Reduce tool search time

Solutions (project begun in 2021)

Deploy a maintenance system via RFID (Radio Frequency ID):

  • Commissioning of XL RFID Smart Cabinets to secure and track all movements from maintenance areas in close proximity to aircraft (Who, What, When, Where)
  • Installation of mobile devices using tablets with integrated NEXCAP® MAT (Mobile Asset Tracking) software and RFID guns, in order to conduct inventories of development boxes, as well as tool searches and logistics during mobile or on-runway interventions
  • Use of RFID Counters to monitor entries and exits from remote tool stores
  • More than 10,000 digitalized tools in a single NEXCAP® database
  • NEXCAP® IOT, for collecting information and supervising data contextualized by division on the IntraDef network via a web browser

Advantages

  • Over 600 users across 7 divisions and 2 sites generate operational data usable on NEXCAP® IOT in order to make better strategic decisions
  • -10% Inventory costs
  • +40% Additional productivity:
    • Reduced tool search time
    • Lower tool loss and downtime
    • Monitoring and anticipation of tool calibration
    • Generation of maintenance data directly from NEXCAP® IOT