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IATA’s initiative on:

Paperless Aircraft Operations

August 2013

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IATA’s paperless initiatives

Aircraft

Focused

Customer

Focused

Passenger Operations

Reservations, Ticketing,

and Airport Processes

e-Ticketing

Boarding Pass on line

Check-in Kiosks

MRO Service Providers, OEMs,

Parts Distributors, Lessors

IATA is in a strong position and capable of coordinating

this multi-stakeholder, complex industry effort

Successful IATA implementation

worldwide via industry mandate

e-Records

e-Parts Tracking

e-Task Cards

e-Signature

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Paperless Aircraft Operations

Look into all areas of aircraft operations

• Flight preparation and dispatch

• In-flight activities

• Onboard documentation

• Maintenance

...will be conducted entirely without paper

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Before After (significant changes)

Paperless Cockpit – Well Advanced

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Paperless Maintenance – Still a Challenge

Records Records

Before After (few real changes)

OEM manuals on tape

Manual stores control

Paper tech log

Paper component certs

Paper service records

OEM manuals on-line

IT system stores control

Paper tech log

Paper component certs

Paper service records

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IATA Vision To simplify maintenance operations by incorporating paperless

technologies, thereby facilitating regulatory compliance and enabling new

processes to reduce costs

Define Standards Coordinate Stakeholders

Auto - ID Parts Identification Electronic Signature

Digital Maintenance

(e.g. eLog book, eDocumentation,

component Auto-ID tags,

eRecords & eArchives)

The Role of IATA

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Key Stakeholders

Aviation

Authorities

Technology

providers

MROs Airlines

Lessors

Parts

suppliers

OEMs

Logistic

companies

Standards

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e-parts tracking

Be able to track an aircraft part (eventually the aircraft) throughout its lifetime

Agree on what information to track

• Regulatory compliance

• Commercial obligations

• Protect asset value

Agree on “Birth Record”

• Cannot provide „Back-to-Birth“ Record

when there is no „Birth“ Record...

Independent of technology

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Two-way treatment

A different approach is required to track parts

Today, every part on a new aircraft that is not tracked is a missed opportunity

PRODUCTION AIRCRAFT AFTERMARKET SOLUTIONS

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Need industry commitment

New Aircraft

Old Aircraft

Fix Date: 20xx

e-parts tracking: Every part produced or overhauled after 20xx should be tracked

Repair - Pool

No e -Tag

e -Tag e -Tag

e -Tag

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Areas of Focus

Auto ID technologies as enablers

e-signoff; electronic vs. digital signature

Electronic vs. digital documentation

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Future RFID technology has the potential to become

a key element in improving efficiencies in

Aircraft Technical Operations:

• We have to work with it as a fact, not as a hypothesis

• Several airlines are running pilot projects or using RFID technology in operations today

• OEMs are mature enough not only to use RFID technology in the process of manufacture but also deliver the product with RFID tags

Better be in a position to shape the future than being carried away…

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Potential areas of RFID application Track aircraft parts for:

• Organization’s internal use (traceability within own inventory and shops)

• Organization’s external use (traceability as parts move across

company’s physical control)

• Efficient and updated record keeping (includes maintenance history)

• Retaining commercial value for resale or leasing

• Aircraft configuration compliance

• Increase maintenance efficiency

• Maintenance inspections, expiration, checks

Current applications; “low hanging fruit”:

• O2 generators, life vests, tooling and equipment

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e-signature Release certificates (FAA 8130-3, EASA From 1)

signed and transferred electronically

Maintenance manuals are accessed electronically

Maintenance tasks are signed off electronically

• Tablet, I Pad

• Mobile phone, IPhone

Revisions of maintenance manuals, MOE, MME, CAMO are made and

approved by CAA electronically

Worldwide acceptance of e-signoff and documentation needed for

aircraft and parts transfer

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Wi Fi

Cloud

Procurement

• new part ordered

Maintenance Planning

Shift Man Power Planning

• % of work accomplished

Aircraft Configuration Database

• modifications accomplished

Maintenance Task Card

• part number removed and installed (data from RF tag)

• task accomplished and signed off

Inventory

• what is in stock, where

RF E-signature

The Future of Data Communication?

Aircraft Documentation

• From “cradle to grave”

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THINK TANK on Paperless Operations

Held at IATA Headquarters 30 - 50 attendees

- 20 airlines and 2 Lessors (GECAS, ILFC)

- 2 regulators (EASA, Transport Canada)

- 3 Airframe OEMs (Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier)

- IATA and A4A

- ICAO

Aircraft Leasing Advisory Group (ALAG) - LLP Traceability template

- Repair traceability template

- Best practices on list of components and traceability

- Short Term Emergency Engine Lease (STEEL) Agreement

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THINK TANK topics:

Parts visibility & traceability with the help of RFID Use cases

Technical hurdles (i.e. positioning of the tag)

Regulatory approval, parts recertification

Digital signature and e-records Regulatory and Lessor’s acceptance

Cost impact

Global cross – acceptance of a digital certificate

Aircraft e-Lease transfers

Next THINK TANK meeting: October 21-25, 2013, Singapore

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