IFS Applications Asset Management

Flags asset data that deviates from expected behavior over a configured period, then automatically creates work orders and notifies the right people so anomalies get investigated.

AOG Management coordinates the response to an aircraft-on-ground event, covering fault analysis, line maintenance work, flight-operations notification, and sourcing extra labor or a third-party maintenance organization to return the aircraft to service.

Covers the checks and sign-offs required to clear an aircraft for service after line maintenance, including airworthiness evaluation and MEL/OPS restriction handling.

Brings a newly received aviation assembly into the fleet, covering configuration setup, technical records for tracked sub-components, delivery document review, and activation onto the maintenance program.

Handles returned components, capturing why a component was removed and determining the right repair routing for it.

Analyze Faults supports diagnosing reported aircraft or asset faults, covering repair-reference lookups, fault analysis, proposed corrective actions, labor and material requirements, and troubleshooting.

Lets dispatchers group many small individual work tasks, such as a batch of meter readings in one area, into a single bundle that is scheduled and executed as one unit while still honoring each task's own constraints.

Analyze Non-Routines covers reviewing and managing unplanned findings discovered during maintenance that fall outside the original work scope.

Lets engineers create and manage individual design objects and parts, track design status changes, attach images and documents, and maintain related technical characteristics.

Covers the MRO assembly process for putting an overhaul object back together, from issuing the shop order and checking conformance through to reporting operations and signing off completed subtasks.

Covers taking an overhaul object apart for inspection and repair, including automated disassembly and receipt of the resulting components.

Asset Procurement covers identifying material demand tied to asset work and initiating the purchasing process to fulfil it.

Manages the creation, negotiation, activation, and rejection of agreements with maintenance contractors, including linking them to underlying supplier agreements.

Covers building out the relationships, structures, and properties that define how design objects and parts connect to each other during engineering.

Manages receipts tied to a CRO, including confirming, modifying, and reporting what was received.

Asset Work Preparation covers preparing components for installation, including assembly and prefabrication activities ahead of scheduled work.

Covers deciding what happens to each part of an overhaul object after inspection, from creating and carrying out the disposition to identifying parts and shipping unrepaired units onward.

Centralizes part master data setup across many sites and product lines using assortments and site clusters, cutting down duplicate data entry and keeping part records consistent.

Manages configuration templates for aviation assets, including which alternate part numbers are authorized, consumables included, and how templates are created, revised, or invalidated.

Registers a CRO (component repair) request and converts its lines into customer orders.

Tracks aviation tools and equipment, covering check-out and check-in, calibration status, and the underlying tool or equipment records.

Bundle Task Planning groups many small, geographically clustered tasks under a single schedulable unit, letting dispatchers plan and assign them as one job while still honoring each task's individual constraints. It covers resource allocation for the bundle and the preparation needed before the technician executes it.

Groups related maintenance requirements into blocks that can be approved, scheduled, and applied to a fleet as a single package.

Defines heavy maintenance contracts, their line items, and associated price agreements.

Manages the repair and overhaul data behind CRO/MRO parts, including modification definitions, repair and maintenance-level structures and routings, repair and discrepancy codes, and service pricing.

Covers the invoicing steps for depot repair work, from creating the related customer order through reviewing costs and previewing the final invoice.

Tracks a customer's installed base of serviceable equipment, defined through models and service bills of material that generate structured service objects.

Helps design engineers compare alternative compatible unit structures by running automated evaluations against configuration rules and design attributes to produce comparable estimate revisions.

Authorizes and tracks returned or repaired units through Return Material Authorizations, recording serial numbers per line, tracking service objects, and managing linked warranties and contracts.

Define CRO Work Scope covers inspecting returned parts, selecting the services to perform, reserving parts, and releasing the repair for customer repair orders.

Covers repair work performed at a depot, from accepting the assigned task and triaging the incoming unit through executing the repair, tracking unit details, and managing warranty coverage.

Covers the design lifecycle of a compatible unit, from initiating and configuring it using library templates through approval, ongoing management, and release.

Define Work Scope covers configuring and approving the scope of MRO work, capturing shop visit information, and planning maintenance events for the MRO variant.

Covers dispatching an asset back into service and formally closing out the associated maintenance visit.

Tracks execution of compatible unit work in the field, covering activation, work task execution and conclusion, redesign, and decommissioning of a revision.

Covers carrying out the work scope of a repair shop order under a complex repair order (CRO), including monitoring machine performance, adjusting the work scope, reporting downtime and indirect time, and signing off completed work.

Applies activity-based costing to calculate real product costs by connecting activities, resources, and cost centers, alongside part cost data, purchase costing, manufacturing cost allocation, and continuous kaizen costing.

Covers carrying out line maintenance activities, from full maintenance events to streamlined, simplified checks.

Defines reusable template structures for parts or assets and the modifications that can be applied to them, including maintaining templates by modification.

ETOPS Management supports the extended-range twin-engine operations rules for aircraft, covering degradation tracking, oil-consumption analysis, fault handling, line and hangar maintenance execution, aircraft release, work packaging, and configuration validation.

Covers running a maintenance visit end to end, including folding in newly discovered work, rescheduling work orders as needed, and testing the asset for acceptance.

Captures work requests and fault reports, tracking when work should begin and be wrapped up and matching them against service level agreements, before appointments are booked and work orders generated.

Structures a project's deliverable items, from systems and sub-systems down to individual materials, each with its own item number, description, and eventual part number as the design is finalized.

Equipment and Personal Safety Management covers creating and preparing isolation orders, planning the permits linked to them, and managing work permits to keep equipment and people safe during maintenance.

Covers logging, deferring, and documenting the resolution of faults identified on an asset.

Covers the end-to-end design of a standard product, from qualifying and prioritizing requirements through structuring the product, evaluating the product range, and preparing part revisions for release.

Covers capturing and analyzing unplanned findings, known as non-routine work, discovered during maintenance.

Calculates a standard environmental footprint per part across its full lifecycle, based on substances the customer defines, to support Life Cycle Assessment and regulatory analysis.

Handle Fleet Forecasting covers building an operational budget for the fleet and running forecasts to anticipate future fleet requirements.

Supports aviation maintenance teams running hangar checks end to end, from preparing for aircraft arrival and recording maintenance work through to raising non-routines and releasing the aircraft, either standalone or integrated with a third-party engineering system.

Manages equipment master records and serialized objects, including isolation templates, object information, and moving or renaming serial objects.

Hangar Maintenance Visit Planning builds long-range plans for hangar maintenance visits, covering usage forecasts, duration and yield calculations, non-routine estimation, location capability checks, operational constraints, blocking strategy, frozen visit lockdown, and adjustments as fleet changes or requirements evolve.

Manual IoT Observation Handling lets users review, correct, or flag incoming sensor observations that were not processed automatically, including marking readings as false or ignored.

Manages the estimating and bidding process using separate revision and version handling, so the scope of work and its pricing can each change independently across multiple offers to a customer.

Covers billing arrangements for maintenance contractor work, from raising the related purchase order to generating payment lines.

Tracks export licenses and controlled documents so restricted parts and technical data are handled in line with export regulations.

Covers carrying out and recording line maintenance activities on an aircraft between flights, including fluid servicing and reviewing turnaround work.

Line Maintenance Planning covers building work packages for line maintenance, assigning tasks, faults, and parts to them, reviewing upcoming maintenance requirements, scheduling aircraft at a hangar location, and transferring the finished package to production.

Covers organizing line maintenance work, including assigning technicians and resources to tasks and releasing the aircraft once work is complete.

Follow-up and Analysis, Maintenance covers risk analysis and reviewing maintenance objects and work order performance.

Reviews rental activity after the fact, covering transaction and posting analysis and asset-level rental follow-up.

MEL OPS Restriction Management tracks the operational restrictions imposed by the minimum equipment list, covering fault review, deferral approval and recording, monitor-task definition, cumulative restriction identification, dispatch notification, and AOG management, and reviewing time-limited item MEL/CDL entries.

Records the build and inspection history of an aviation asset as it's received, inspected, and assembled, including component replacements, new components, life-limit adjustments, and usage hours.

Maintenance Standards Planning covers creating and revising the preventive maintenance programs that define recurring maintenance standards.

Manages Job Instruction Cards that document how a specific maintenance task is performed, including their creation, approval, application to a fleet, resource allocation, and supporting work documents.

Covers the final steps of clearing an aircraft after hangar maintenance, from analyzing test flight results and confirming requirement completion to authorizing the release.

Manages continuous linear assets such as pipelines, highways, electrical lines, and rail corridors, where length and changing attributes along the asset matter for design and maintenance, whether created manually or generated automatically from a design object.

Covers keeping operational data accurate and manageable over time, including archiving historical logs, correcting erroneous entries, and updating vehicle condition history.

Captures maintenance change requests raised by technicians and other staff so proposed changes to how equipment upkeep is planned and carried out get recorded and reviewed.

Manage Maintenance Program covers building preventive maintenance programs, defining task cards, life limits, fault deferral rules, and post-maintenance check definitions, and maintaining aircraft or asset modifications over time.

Activates a maintenance program on a fleet asset, covering check/phase and out-of-phase task activation, line maintenance planning, AD/SB and modification status review, and setting remaining time on active tasks.

Supports field technicians running maintenance work orders from a mobile device, covering work acceptance and execution, material and stock handling, document and object access, remote assistance, and shift, e-form, and synchronization management.

Creates and maintains an asset maintenance program (AMP), including assigning requirements, applying the program to a fleet, evaluating the impact of revisions, and locking changes once approved.

Covers invoicing for costs and revenue recorded against work orders.

Defines individual maintenance requirements, including their applicability, scheduling, and linked job instruction cards, and manages their approval, revision, and rollout to the fleet.

Keeps an asset's configuration baseline current as its assembly hierarchy changes over time.

PM Planning covers applying and disconnecting preventive maintenance programs, generating and preparing PM actions and work orders, creating work task templates, scheduling maintenance through the planning board or maintenance planning and scheduling tools, handling resource breaks, and marking programs not applicable when needed.

Covers day-to-day operation of an asset, including logging operational entries, managing flight logs, and planning daily operations.

Manages the rent-in process initiated from purchase orders, covering supplier shipments, rental events, transactions, exchanges, write-offs, and finalizing the rental, using shared rental basic data such as chargeable days, date exceptions, and rental modes.

Manages the rent-out process initiated from customer orders, covering customer returns and exchanges through to finalizing the rental, using shared rental basic data such as chargeable days, date exceptions, and rental modes.

Manages project-based rentals initiated from project demand, covering rental transfers and finalizing project rental charging.

Prepare Line Maintenance covers calculating due dates, planning line maintenance activities and their resource and material requirements, scheduling the resulting work order, and cancelling or replanning work as needed.

Prepare Maintenance Visit covers defining and planning a maintenance visit, handling the customer's requested work scope, and running the induction and inspection steps that kick it off.

Imports and maintains serialized asset structures, including bringing asset data in from external CSV sources, defining and maintaining serial structures, and entering historical life data for assets already in service.

Defines the manufacturing routings, structures, and lead times used as production standards for a part, including transferring structures from engineering or template libraries and validating part configuration setups.

Manages repair work orders raised for broken serialized or non-serialized parts and objects, covering moving items between the facility, inventory, and repair workshop, and issuing parts for repair.

Creates and maintains the different part types a business needs, master, manufactured, purchased, sales, and package parts, plus part configuration revisions and purchase-part suppliers.

Covers grouping multiple request tasks into a single bundle for scheduling and execution, and splitting or reporting on them when needed.

Manages reference documents used in engineering and maintenance, covering their creation, revision, receipt, review and approval, and marking items as not applicable.

Defines standard, repeatable repair procedures, including creating or revising them, entering them into the system, documenting them in a manual, and assigning a job instruction card.

Repair Planning and Assignment covers assigning repairs to a repair bench, planning bench details, searching for available benches, logging repair activity, and tracking repairs still awaiting assignment.

Request Bundle Task Planning groups multiple individual request tasks in the same area and timeframe into a single schedulable bundle, saving dispatchers and technicians time while still respecting each task's own constraints. Existing tasks can be connected to a bundle from the request task overview, and more can be added while the bundle hasn't yet started work.

Covers disassembling a manufactured item under a shop order, including managing the tools used and receiving the disassembly shop order, with labor costs calculated from reported hours and configured rates.

Schedule Maintenance Visit covers estimating the visit budget, preparing general visit information, and viewing or modifying the work order structure behind it.

Tracks tools as they move in and out of the tool crib, including checking tools in and out, monitoring what's currently out, flagging overdue tools, and putting tools away.

Service Campaign Creation lets service organizations plan and coordinate large-scale proactive actions — recalls, upgrades, or scheduled maintenance pushes — across many service objects under a single initiative. It supports generating the underlying requests and repair RMAs in bulk so campaigns can be tracked and executed consistently.

Shop Order Disassembly Planning covers creating and maintaining disassembly shop orders and requisitions, checking material, component, and resource availability, sequencing operations, running finite scheduling, raising material review board cases, and releasing and reserving orders for execution.

Shop Order Remanufacturing Planning covers creating remanufacturing shop orders and their requisitions, and pegging direct supply against them.

Shop Order Repair Planning covers creating repair shop orders and managing multilevel repair structures across their components.

Work Order Planning covers preparing work orders for planned and unplanned maintenance or service tasks, whether generated from a PM program, fault report, or service request, including the resource, material, budget, and document requirements attached to each work task. It also supports the mobilization and demobilization work orders used to prepare and return rental assets.

Work Packaging covers preparing and finalizing work packages for hangar maintenance and predrawing materials needed to complete them.