Innovating General Aviation MRO's through IT: The Sky Aircraft Management System - SAMS

Abstract

Airworthiness regulations for civil aircraft oblige excellent operations with strict control procedures. Therefore proper aircraft maintenance and management is a sophisticated multi agent process, involving a growing amount of information processing. While large airlines and their technical organizations are able to handle this flow, private aircraft or smaller fleet owners rely on smaller maintenance, repair and overhaul organizations, which cannot cope with the demanding requirements. Leveraging this situation, an innovative information technology system for General Aviation is proposed herewith, which is integrating all stakeholders in the value chain through information technologies, enabling organizational transformation using business process management and value chain analysis towards sustainability. It is also shown that as an affordable tool the proposed Sky Aircraft Management System -SAMS is capable to transform and integrate all processes, including supply, repair, operation and approval, enabling new capabilities and thus new businesses, constituting a radical innovation framework supporting sustainable development.

Applications of Internet of Things (IoT) in the Aerospace Industry

“…The role of ITeS in Aerospace industry has been explored by previous studies as well. A Study on IT enabling MRO [66] describes and proposes an allin-one EMS for streamlining companies' business processes, integrating various verticals within the industry, and leverage real-time Big Data Analytics to enable optimization of resources. They named it SAMS -Sky Aircraft Management System.…”

From ideation towards innovation: pillars of front-end in new product development

“…Hansen and Birkinshaw, (2007) studies the innovation value chain in interaction, and defined the innovation value chain as idea generation, conversion and the diffusion. Sometimes the users value of IT innovations cannot be captured with traditional accounting (Grant et al, 2013) that Porter's value chain analysis for differentiation can be used for innovation assessment as well (Ucler and Gok, 2015).…”