John Upham Vice President at AirVault shares insights on how to manage aviation maintenance (Mx) records in the cloud in London at the AVM Summit. Topics include: Cloud definition; Saas; IaaS; PaaS; Why Cloud? Cloud benefits; Big Data; Aviation Maintenance Records (Mx) and FAA & EASA regulations.
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"Records Management in the Cloud" - AVM Summit - London
1. Records Management in the Cloud
John Upham
Vice President, Business Development - EAME
8 November 2012
Event Hashtags:
#Aviation
#Cloud
Twitter:
@AvMainMag
@uphamj
@AirVaultCloud
2. About the Cloud
It’s Cloudy
– What is it?
Storm Cloud
– Objections
Compliance
– Regulators and Regs
Trends
– Forecast
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9. What Do Cloud Vendors Provide?
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SIMPLICITYCOMPLEXITY
10. Choosing a Cloud Vendor
Decide: public cloud or
private cloud?
Reputation, years in
operation, references,
discussions and site visits
with customers
Ask about SLA commitment
and actual uptime for the
past few years
Review security and
functionality audits
Ask about business
continuity, redundancy,
backups
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16. Cloud as a Marketing Benefit
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“Smaller MROs operating in countries
where MRO services are newly emerging
can increase their perceived reliability by
offering cloud-based records management.”
—James G. Brunke
Former Chairman and President, Boeing Shanghai
19. Owners are primarily responsible for Mx records
– FAA – 14 CFR §121.363
– EASA – Part M, §A, Subpart B, M.A. 201 (a), (b)
– Leased Aircraft? Operator responsible
How long must operators retain aircraft
Mx records?
– FAA – 1 year, or until work superseded
– EASA – 3 years, or until work superseded
For engines: Keep everything until next
overhaul
To preserve hull value: Keep everything until you
transfer the asset—aircraft or engine
Compliance Breeds Documents
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20. Mx Records & MROs
FAA - 14 CFR § 145.219
EASA - Part M, § A, Subpart F, M.A. 614 et seq.
Must provide Mx record copies to the
owner or operator and retain:
– FAA - 2 years
– EASA - 3 years
Are electronic Mx records approved?
– FAA – YES; Advisory Circular 120-78
– EASA – YES; Part M, § A, Subpart C,
M.A. 305(h), and Subpart F, M.A. 614a
Must make all required Mx records available for
inspection…at any time
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22. Data Flood from Aircraft
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New Engine Real Time Data – 230% increase
New Plane Real Time Data – 60% increase
What Boeing knows
versus
What their customers know
23. M&E Integration with Mx Records
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M&E System
generates task
cards with or
without barcodes
Mechanic completes
work, signs off, and
staff scans directly
into Records system
System uses barcodes or
uses OCR to recognize
form and all machine
print to auto-populate
index fields and to
enable full text searching
Bi-Directional sync
updates both systems
E-Link in M&E to
“dirty fingerprint”
Mx Doc in Records
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