Malaysia Airlines has deployed a full suite of aviation solutions by an Indian IT firm to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul support for over 145 aircraft, improving efficiency and enabling airworthiness.
Ramco Systems, headquartered in Chennai, achieved the deployment in a record time span of 11 months. The process will further improve efficiency and enable continuous airworthiness, thereby reducing aircraft on-ground time, the company said.
The suite includes solutions for maintenance and engineering, procurement, advanced planning and optimisation, advanced reliability and Loadable Software Aircraft Parts.
The IT firm has equipped some 300 Malaysia Airlines engineers system-wide to access a future-ready enterprise software that allows them to automate or streamline many engineering functions, simplify compliance checks, and improve inventory management and hangar maintenance, said the airline.
By using bar code-enabled features and automation, the national carrier of Malaysia is now able to dramatically reduce time taken to move spares from suppliers to warehouses and hangars worldwide, said Ramco.
Billing and compliance with multiple regulator functions will enable Malaysia Airlines to improve efficiency and scale-up its maintenance, repair and overhaul business to address third-party airlines worldwide.
By July this year, another 800 airline engineering and operational staff will be connected to the Ramco platform.
"We are extremely happy to witness a record time go-live of a strategic implementation at Malaysia Airlines. Our teams defied great odds to achieve the impossible for a landmark project of great importance for both sides. We thank Malaysia Airlines for their faith in Ramco as a trusted partner," Ramco Chief Executive Officer Virender Aggarwal said.
"The net effect is a dramatic improvement in engineering efficiency, optimised fleet management, and reduction in aircraft on-ground time," Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, Group CEO of Malaysia Airlines said.
