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06 Latest News and Technology updates

Keep up to date with the changing world of IT.

42 CASE STUDY: A digital game-changer for JAL Engineering Co.

Atsushi Kita, Senior Director, Maintenance Planning Group, JAL Engineering Co.

How JALEC’s fleet-wide long-range maintenance planning has been transformed by an IFS solution to manage more aircraft with less human intervention.

50 WHAT IT CAN DO: Embracing ATA standards in data exchange

Henrik Ollus, VP of Aviation Data Exchange Business at QOCO Systems Ltd.

With the rapidly growing importance of data generation, management and recording, the ATA standards for data exchange are looking increasingly valuable for the sector.

52 CASE STUDY: An ERP system that has grown with Airbus New Zealand

Peter Buscke, Production Engineer, Airbus New Zealand

How an enduring vendor and user relationship has grown and matured with the development of the user into a significant regional player in aircraft maintenance and management.

58 HOW I SEE IT: Transformation needs transformation

Allan Bachan, VP, Managing Director, MRO Operations, ICF

Adopt new thinking to understand the capabilities of new technologies.

60 VENDOR JOB CARD: Ultramain Systems

In the first of our Q&A pieces in this issue, John Warren, Executive Vice President, Ultramain Systems, completes his ‘Job Card Log’ for Aircraft IT.

62 WHITE PAPER: New Technology Focus

Sriram Haran, CEO; Varun Prakash Anbumani, Senior Solution Architect and Vamsi Krishna, Data Scientist, all at KeepFlying

The latest advances in Digital Fin Twins, Data Exchange Platforms and data integrity using ML systems: plus privacy-bydesign.

70 VENDOR JOB CARD: ADSOFTWARE

In the second of our Q&A pieces in this issue, Ines Gur, Head of Sales & Marketing at ADSOFTWARE, completes her ‘Job Card Log’ for Aircraft IT.

72 MRO Software directory

A detailed look at the world’s leading MRO IT systems