QEI Exec Project Management Software
Case Study: Scandinavian Airlines System
The largest contract in the company's history to date has been with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). The deal, which was signed in June 1998, was for the development and ongoing support of a customised version of QEI Exec for the Technical Division of the airline. The system, known as STOPS (Strategic, Technical and Operational Planning System), interfaces with the existing mainframe based maintenance planning application and uses inbuilt rules and assessments of the future usage of aircraft to
- Predict maintenance requirements up to twenty years into the future
- Complement the existing maintenance systems
- Analyse the impact of changes to maintenance programs
- Analyse the impact of changes in fleet composition
- Match resource demands and availabilities more effectively
- Generate maintenance budgets and monitor performance against them
- Produce reports for the regulatory authorities
In a powerful demonstration of the scalability and performance of the product, the databases holding the maintenance projections hold over 100,000 tasks, each with up to 13 trade related resources assigned. Despite being over 500Mb in size, users are able to perform detailed analyses by criteria such as trade, location or aircraft type with rapid system response times.
Staff from PCF and our Scandinavian distributor Promatica AS spent over 18 months working alongside SAS to develop the system, which is now deployed at the three main maintenance bases in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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