The Maintenix® Solution for Performance Based Logistics
The Mxi Maintenix® product was specifically designed to meet the aerospace and defense industry’s demanding requirements for aftermarket support, engineering, maintenance, and materials management. Maintenix is a component-centric system, where “point of maintenance” data is collected and tracked at the serialized component level to ensure visibility and accuracy. As a result, Maintenix is a core enabling technology solution for PBL initiatives.
- Maintenix allows pre-planning of maintenance and parts provisioning for the supported asset. To build an accurate cost estimate for this support, Maintenix provides the tools and information necessary to consider several factors: maintenance & materials forecast based on both known events, such as scheduled maintenance, and predicted failure rates, which drive unscheduled maintenance; in-service and out-of-service dates for assets; and, expected asset usage profiles. By using Maintenix to simulate a fleet profile where assets are introduced into a fleet over time, and have varying utilization rates on all parts at all levels of the assembly, accurate stocking and resourcing models may be built. Because Maintenix tracks predicted costs down to the specific event, highly accurate cost forecasts are tied to these resourcing models.
- Maintenix provides tight integration and a high degree of visibility across organizations (from operations and maintenance through the supply chain back to the OEM or PBL provider). Through this integration, Maintenix enables increased serviceability rates for PBL supported assets. For example:
- During operations, visibility of mission rates and requirements aid the maintenance provider in scheduling maintenance during opportune down-times, enabling higher availability and serviceability rates of assets.
- The ability to integrate Maintenix with onboard Health & Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) is key to providing visibility into faults and discrepancies, and effectively planning the resulting unscheduled maintenance, which has the most significant impact on asset availability.
- In Maintenix, the maintainer has the ability to collect accurate configuration records and part/serial number tracking data, and share it up the supply chain, ensuring that the correct parts are provided to support the asset.
- Conversely, Maintenix offers the maintainer visibility of the supply chain response, thereby reducing the number of re-orders and providing the awareness and information needed to deal with exception cases.
- During a Depot visit, Maintenix allows production planners and controllers to coordinate repair efforts efficiently, optimize the workload, level the work across all Depots, and stagger work within each Depot to ensure maximum use of available resources (e.g. labor, facilities, and tools). This results in improved productivity and reduced turnaround times for assets.
- Additionally, the close tie between Line and Depot maintenance organizations in Maintenix allows the PBL provider to optimize the distribution of work across levels of maintenance. Maintenix enables management of dynamic maintenance programs and offers flexible work packaging, so that work that was previously performed only at the Depot can actually be done at the Line at opportune times, greatly reducing the downtime of assets.
- Detailed, accurate visibility of serviceability rates, financial performance, and timely material and resource demand signals are necessary for the provider of a program to determine properly the success of the program compared to initial forecasts. Maintenix provides this visibility by integrating information from many sources and organizations. Specifically, Maintenix provides the two core features that are required for effective PBL contract management and cost control: Accurate asset configuration, usage, and maintenance information tracking and collection at the most “granular” serialized component level; and, financial reporting at multiple (and hierarchical) logical cost centers, with the ability to section financial data across these cost centers.
- In order to achieve maximum benefit, Maintenix allows asset configuration, usage, and maintenance data to be recorded in the system at the “point of maintenance”. Such data collection is facilitated by the fact that Maintenix is a role-based system, with a workflow that is designed to help the users to follow maintenance best practices. This workflow enables increased efficiency and productivity from users, allowing them to focus on their core tasks. In Maintenix, all of the information needed to support decision-making is presented in the context of the business process being followed.
- Maintenix gives the logistics provider detailed insight into actual costs incurred, and the flexibility to group or subdivide these costs for performance analysis and prediction. The system ties this financial data to accurate asset and component records, allowing the provider to analyze component reliability and costs across a number of dimensions, including asset type, age, operating environment, utilization rate, customer, maintenance provider, vendor, part number, model, lot, etc. This combination of financial, maintenance, and operational data in Maintenix provides a highly accurate view of the program for both the logistics provider and the customer.
Starting at the outset of the program, Maintenix can give the PBL provider, as well as its customers, accurate insight into program success (based on accurate performance and cost data), while at the same time improving operational efficiencies across all areas of Maintenance and Logistics.
For more information about the capabilities of Mxi's Maintenix software, please visit the benefits page and browse through the Maintenix area of our web site.
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