Avionics

MKS Integrity for Avionics enables secure, process-controlled content and change management for embedded software and digital content found on modern aircraft like the Airbus 380 and the Boeing 787. Co-residing neatly alongside hardware maintenance systems, MKS Integrity for Avionics provides leverage of existing investments as airlines move forward into managing the additional complexity caused by software decoupling from hardware.

Software Parts: Hardware-oriented MRO systems are no longer sufficient to cope with the accelerating complexity and velocity of change found within embedded software systems on modern aircraft. MKS Integrity for Avionics captures all of the relevant information about the software systems, from the initial 'master record' configurations across aircraft categories through to individualized real-time status information of the current configuration for every tail being managed.

Electronic Flight Bags: Although EFB change management is less complex than software part change management, the similarity of the flight ops responsibility for EFB content and the Engineering department responsibility for software part content makes this a natural complement in functionality. By integrating EFB change management with the software and hardware MRO activities, actual EFB configuration can be automatically compared to the target configuration as requested by Flight Ops. This enables immediate recognition of any discrepancies, to enable resolution of non-alignments.

With MKS for Avionics, organizations can:

• Securely manage Authorized or Target Configurations
• Convey authorized configuration data to the point of maintenance
• Minimize changes to mechanic work practices by managing complexity in the back office
• Achieve neat coexistence with and leverage of traditional MRO systems
• Lower the cost of engineering maintenance and compliance
• Reduce the risk that aircraft integrity is compromised during a maintenance event
• Check for software impact during an ad hoc equipment part change
• Record target, actual & discrepancies at every point in time during the life of aircraft
• Process Service Bulletins and update Authorized Configurations
• Auto generate Engineering Orders to align all aircraft in category with configuration on new tail in fleet
• Satisfy audit requirements with a full history of the configurations of the fleet of aircraft throughout its life, including traceability back to Engineering Order, Service Bulletin or Change Request for all software-related changes made to an aircraft