PSIairport/M&S (Maintenance & Services)

Considerable potential for cost reductions can be unlocked through targeted and planned maintenance. Airports require a large number of baggage conveyors, sorting systems, check-in equipment and apron equipment for day-to-day operations. If any of these systems or machines fail, this often has a negative impact on quality. For example, air cargo terminals require fully functioning material handling systems, the ETV, the TV and ASRS rack feeder round the clock. The use of integrated maintenance and servicing systems means that many of these problems are avoided due to early warning. A significant motivation for integrating an integrated system of this kind is the optimisation of maintenance effort and unplanned servicing effort. Unplanned repair work is almost always caused by the failure of a particular component. Depending on the time at which this fault occurs and the length of time required to repair it, this can have serious consequences for quality and costs. The significant requirements of efficient maintenance/servicing are the maximisation of system availability and avoiding faults, discovering weaknesses and minimising servicing costs with integrated planning and control.

PSIairport/M&S provides the necessary information and tools for the optimisation of the aforementioned points. The management level is supplied with consolidated information (KPI, Key Performance Indicators). This information can, for example, be used to make long-term decisions. Tools are provided to the planning level for making short to medium term decisions. The operational level is supported by a direct link to the results of planning, for example via MDE/BDE. The continuous integration of all levels means that information about the current situation is always available to each person responsible.