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Revolutionizing Line and Base Maintenance with Fingermind’s AI-Powered Solutions

Aircraft maintenance is crucial for airline operations, where every second counts and even minor delays can impact schedules. What if you could streamline this process, anticipate issues before they occur, and turn data into actionable insights?

Fingermind’s AI-powered solutions do just that, reshaping how airlines approach both line and base maintenance. From optimizing diagnostics to enhancing resource planning, our technology addresses the real-world challenges airlines face daily.

1- Line Maintenance: A Daily Necessity

Line maintenance ensures aircraft are airworthy between flights, posing several challenges for airlines.

Time is vital, and unexpected technical issues can lead to delays, passenger dissatisfaction, and operational inefficiencies.

  • Minimizing Downtime: With tight schedules and minimal layover times, airlines need fast, accurate diagnostics and repairs to get planes back in the air swiftly.
  • Handling Unscheduled Faults: Unexpected issues require quick resolution, and pinpointing the root cause promptly, especially with limited time, can be tough.
  • Efficient Resource Management: Teams, tools, and parts must be readily available to avoid unnecessary delays, but managing these resources across multiple airports is tricky.
  • Logging and Compliance: Every action during line maintenance must be meticulously documented, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and operational oversight.

These challenges are universal for airlines. Fingermind’s AI-driven solutions streamline and simplify the process.

Fingermind’s AI: Transforming Line Maintenance

Fingermind’s AI-powered platform helps airlines tackle the daily pressures of line maintenance by optimizing fault diagnosis and speeding up troubleshooting.

  • Smarter Troubleshooting:
    By analyzing data from ECAM messages, logbooks, and more, our AI models generate a ranked list of tasks based on previous intervention data, guiding technicians through the most effective steps to resolve issues quickly and accurately.
  • Faster Fault Isolation:
    The AI isolates issues, learning from historical data and real-time context to determine the most likely solutions, reducing trial-and-error time.
  • Logging Every Step:
    As tasks are performed, our AI logs the operator’s actions in real time, feeding back into the system for even more precise future recommendations. This continuous learning ensures faster, more accurate resolutions over time.

Business Benefits:

  • Reduced Downtime:
    Quicker fault detection and resolution mean your aircraft is ready for its next flight sooner. Fingermind’s AI drastically cuts troubleshooting time.
  • Optimized Resource Use:
    By targeting the most likely problems, the AI ensures efficient use of personnel and materials, avoiding unnecessary interventions and saving costs.
  • Improved Accuracy:
    Even with unfamiliar issues, AI-powered recommendations provide reliable guidance, reducing errors and enhancing safety.

2- The Complexity of Base Maintenance

Base maintenance, particularly C-Checks and D-Checks, involves detailed inspections, repairs, and overhauls that keep aircraft in peak condition for the long term.

While essential, base maintenance brings its own unique challenges:

  • Managing Large-Scale Work Packages: C-Checks can involve over 2,000 tasks over three weeks, requiring careful coordination.
  • Estimating Task Duration: New or modified tasks often lack historical data, making it hard to estimate completion time accurately, leading to delays or cost overruns.
  • Identifying Anomalies: With so many tasks to manage, inefficiencies or potential issues can be easily overlooked, causing delays.
  • Effective Resource Planning: Large teams of technicians, engineers, and inspectors must be managed efficiently to keep timelines and costs under control.

These challenges highlight the need for accurate task planning and optimized workflows, where Fingermind’s AI solutions deliver unmatched precision.

How Fingermind’s AI Optimizes Base Maintenance

Fingermind’s AI platform removes guesswork from base maintenance, offering precise task duration estimates and improved coordination for more efficient C-Checks.

  • Accurate Task Estimation:
    Our AI models analyze previous maintenance data and task complexity to provide accurate time estimates for new and modified tasks. This allows airlines to plan resources confidently, avoiding delays and unexpected costs.
  • Work Package Optimization:
    Fingermind’s AI can flag anomalies in large work packages, helping technicians identify potential inefficiencies before they become significant issues, ensuring a smooth process.
  • Better Resource Planning:
    With detailed insights into task duration and required tools, airlines can allocate personnel and materials more effectively, keeping the maintenance schedule on track and costs under control.

Business Benefits:

  • Improved Accuracy in Planning:
    Precise time estimates help avoid costly overruns and ensure maintenance is completed on schedule, minimizing aircraft downtime.
  • Cost Efficiency:
    Early detection of inefficiencies allows you to optimize resources and avoid unnecessary interventions, reducing overall maintenance costs.
  • Enhanced Process Coordination:
    Streamlined workflows and improved resource allocation help teams work more effectively, ensuring each task is completed efficiently.

 

Get in Touch to Transform Your Maintenance Operations

Fingermind’s AI-Powered solutions redefine how airlines manage both line and base maintenance. By optimizing fault diagnosis, improving task estimation, and streamlining resource allocation, our platform enhances operational efficiency, reduces costs, and maintains the highest safety standards.

Ready to elevate your aviation maintenance?

Contact Fingermind today to explore how our innovative AI models can help your airline overcome maintenance challenges and achieve peak performance.

 

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Celebrating International Aviation Maintenance Technician Day

Honoring the Unsung Heroes of Aviation

Today, 24th of May, we celebrate International Aviation Maintenance Technician Day, a day dedicated to acknowledging and honoring the incredible work of aviation maintenance technicians around the world.

These unsung heroes ensure the safety and efficiency of every flight, playing a pivotal role in the aviation industry.

At Fingermind, we are proud to support and innovate for these indispensable professionals.

The vital role of Aviation Maintenance Technicians

Aviation maintenance technicians are the backbone of the aviation industry. Their meticulous work ensures that aircraft operate safely and efficiently, performing regular inspections, maintenance, and repairs.

They are responsible for diagnosing and fixing issues, adhering to stringent safety standards, and ensuring compliance with aviation regulations.

Ensuring safety in the skies

Safety is paramount in aviation, and maintenance technicians are at the forefront of this critical mission. Their expertise and attention to detail prevent accidents and ensure that passengers and crew can trust the aircraft they board.

From routine checks to complex problem-solving, these professionals are dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of safety.

The challenges they overcome

Aviation maintenance is not without its challenges. Technicians often work under high pressure, dealing with tight schedules and complex technical issues.

Despite these pressures, they consistently deliver exceptional work, demonstrating resilience, skill, and a commitment to excellence.

Fingermind’s commitment to Aviation Technicians

At Fingermind, we are dedicated to supporting aviation maintenance technicians with our comprehensive MRO Suite of IT solutions. Designed to enhance efficiency and safety, our suite includes:

  • eJobcards: Streamline task management and reduce paperwork with real-time access and updates.
  • Task Scheduling and Planning: Optimize workflows with advanced scheduling tools to minimize downtime.
  • Inventory Management: Ensure parts availability with efficient tracking and management.
  • Compliance and Documentation: Maintain regulatory compliance with secure e-signatures and thorough documentation.
  • Real-Time Data and Analytics: Gain insights into performance metrics and maintenance trends for proactive problem-solving.

Our MRO Suite empowers technicians, helping them achieve excellence in their critical roles while ensuring the highest standards of safety and efficiency.

 

Celebrating their dedication

On this International Aviation Maintenance Technician Day, we extend our deepest gratitude to all the technicians who keep our skies safe. Your expertise, dedication, and hard work are invaluable to the aviation industry and to everyone who relies on air travel.

 

As we celebrate this special day, let us remember the critical contributions of aviation maintenance technicians. At Fingermind, we are committed to continuing our support for these heroes through innovative solutions like eJobcards, helping them achieve excellence in their vital work.

Happy International Aviation Maintenance Technician Day!

 

The advantages of Fingermind are not going unnoticed

Covid has created financial insecurity for operators and collateral that impacted fleets and mechanics. Operators have taken a huge financial hit which has led to fleet and staff reductions.

  • The reduction in fleets means that today’s aircraft are full and running constantly, requiring more maintenance and vigilance.
  • There have been a lot of departures of mechanics which implies a loss not only of personnel but also of know-how as the ability to run fleets relies on them in part.

In an industry where aviation safety and aircraft availability must be ensured, Fingermind is facilitating collective intelligence for operators, manufacturers, and mechanics assisted by our digital solutions, AI & Blockchain.

 

An innovative solution

Fingermind provides innovative software and applications that address strategic issues in aeronautical operations:

  • Air safety & maintenance cycles
  • Heavy documentation & regular updates
  • Back office scheduling & process decisions

A handheld and user-friendly digital solution available on tablets for mechanics and on computers for back office managers.

 

Why our clients choose us

The problems solved by Fingermind cover the needs of operators/mechanics/aircraft, from Airbus and Boeing.

Designed for Operator Profitability

  • Getting relevant information through AI & Blockchain to streamline processes and decision-making by air operators
  • Reduction of operator costs by streamlining maintenance cycles
  • For the safety of passengers and the availability of aircraft
  • More efficiency, follow-up, and traceability of the mechanics
  • The reduction of tons of paper

Thanks to our 20 years’ experience in the aeronautical industry, Fingermind helps airlines make more informed operational decisions thanks to the right information and AI assistance, and mechanics be even more efficient despite the pressure and complexity of compliance operations today.

And the advantages of Fingermind are not going unnoticed even by the military services, and we are working more and more with transport aircraft in this field.

 

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how we can help overcome your challenges?

 

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MRO Suite release - new features and interface

Fingermind evolves its MRO Suite to accelerate access to information

To meet its customers’ expectations and accelerate access to all their MRO documentation, Fingermind is once again enhancing its MRO Suite software to make it even more ergonomic and easy to use.

MRO Suite includes a range of innovative solutions to access all essential MRO information locally or from a tablet in a few clicks. It addresses three major challenges for MRO services, aeronautics, and industry: accelerating MRO operations, making them more reliable and reducing intervention costs.

 

A new interface to speed up data access

The Fingermind team has completely redesigned the MRO Suite user interface and integrated several new features:

  • Two new types of access: by company or directly by ACN (Aircraft registration)
  • Grouping of the different manuals by fleet
  • A new table of contents (TOC)
  • Enterprise SSO authentication

These important updates now make it possible to offer a tool that is more intuitive and easier to use, while meeting the safety requirements of customers, to gain even more time and efficiency in MRO management.

 

“Fingermind is constantly innovating to adapt to the demands of its customers. In a tense post-COVID economic climate, it is essential for our clients to be able to improve their operational and budgetary efficiency. Facilitating and streamlining access to data was a strong demand and our team quickly developed new tools to meet it,” says Christophe Remy, CEO of Fingermind. 

 

Fingermind will be present at:

This will be an opportunity for Fingermind’s teams to present the new features of MRO Suite and its numerous modules to the MRO and aeronautics industries: MRO Navigator, MRO Online, MRO Offline, MRO Publisher, MRO Analytics, MRO Paper Jobard & eJobcard and MRO Smart Data Access.

Do you want to experience our new interface and its latest features?

Take advantage of an individual demo on our booth!

Book a demo on MRO Europe 2021
Booth #3080

Book a demo on Dubai AirShow 2021
Booth #760C

 

 

 

Fingermind Webinar July 2021

Webinar Fingermind & Winmate – July 15th, 2021

Making Aircraft Maintenance Easier & Efficient with Rugged Tablets”

Webinar July 15th, 2021

11:00 AM Paris (GMT+2) – 05:00 PM Taipei (GMT+8)
Duration: 30~45 min

 

Join our teams this Thursday, July 15th, 2021 for an exclusive Webinar and discover how you can easily improve your Aircraft Maintenance operations with Winmate’s Rugged Tablets and Fingermind’s MRO Suite.

Indeed, although the pandemic strongly impacted aviation and aeronautic players, it has also accelerated technological innovation. To improve maintenance time, reduce costs and increase performance, major Airlines and MROs are today investing in new handheld technologies.

The occasion to share latest aviation market recovery trends, application scenarios and case studies.

 

AGENDA

  • Aviation Market Recovery Trend
  • How Tablets increase productivity in Aviation
  • Winmate’s Rugged Tablets solutions for Maintenance
  • Benefits and features of Winmate’s Rugged tablets
  • Benefits and features of Fingermind’s MRO Suite
  • Application scenarios and Case studies

 

 

 

Fingermind's MRO Software used on tablet by mecanics

Fingermind unveils new MRO Smart Data Access feature

A new feature for reliable data collection

To meet the needs of MRO services and offer a range of solutions that are fully in line with the challenges of managing maintenance operations in the aeronautical and industrial sectors, Fingermind is enhancing its MRO Suite software.

Fingermind‘s MRO Suite already includes several intuitive and innovative modules that support MRO, aerospace, and industry throughout their maintenance operations. It addresses three major challenges: accelerating MRO operations, making them more reliable and reducing intervention costs.

 

To meet these challenges, Fingermind has developed today an additional feature: MRO Smart Data Access. This new module integrates an innovative API that allows MRO departments to easily exchange information with third-party applications to better organize maintenance operations, including job cards. MRO Smart Data Access offers instant access to data and avoids tedious and unreliable copy and paste.

 

Enhancing Fingermind’s MRO Suite

The different modules of the MRO Suite provides local or mobile access via a tablet to all essential MRO information in a few clicks. And the new MRO Smart Data Access module perfectly complements the 6 other modules already available: MRO Navigator, MRO Online, MRO Offline, MRO Publisher, MRO Analytics and MRO Paper Jobard & eJobcard.

 

This new module, unique on the market, is available now and can be combined with other modules of the MRO Suite. The guarantee to adapt precisely to the needs of MRO services. And a major advantage for any aeronautic players wishing to accelerate their recovery after the pandemic period.

 

Do you want to test our latest feature with your own data?

Download now the detailed product sheet!

 

 

Fingermind's MRO Software used by mechanics in airline hangar.

Aerotime – Fingermind gives MRO providers fast and reliable data access

June 22nd, 2020 – Fingermind in the media

With the increase in air traffic, the accentuation of technological requirements for each new generation of aircraft, and the rise in maintenance costs (representing up to 10% of airline operating costs), the need for innovative and high-performance maintenance solutions is also growing.

Fingermind has developed a software suite to meet this need. Accessible from tablets, its MRO Suite provides quick and easy access to all the technical documentation required for aeronautical maintenance. It requires no specific training for maintenance operators and can be installed on most operating systems (iOS, Windows and Android).

The Fingermind MRO suite also meets the need for predictive maintenance with advanced Big Data and AI ready features. These features allow the monitoring of operational feedback and the identification and elimination of non-compliant interventions….

>> Read the full article on Areotime

 

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