System Overview
Functional Scope of AMOS
AMOS ("Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering System") provides an integrated software solution that is able to manage the complex maintenance, engineering and logistic requirements of any modern airline. The system consists of eight closely interrelated modules administered in one relational database:
Despite its modular architecture, the high degree of integration of the different modules in one system ensures that data have to be entered only once; hence inconsistencies are reduced, while productivity and data quality are guaranteed.
History
The system has steadily grown over more than 15 years with the result that AMOS - in its third generation - covers by now the broad spectrum of MRO business functions. AMOS originally has been developed by the IT department of CROSSAIR (now SWISS), i.e. in direct contact with airline staff an extremely user-friendly, online system has been designed. Today Swiss-AS and the SWISS Technical department form a win-win community. While the SWISS Technical department is keen to see their system requirements reproduced in the system as unbureaucratically as possible, Swiss-AS appreciates the fact being embedded in an active user environment that helps to capture MRO industry trends at an early stage.
Today, from the point of view of computer technology as well as functionality AMOS is considered to be the market-leading software package for managing today’s complex maintenance demands of aircraft and components.
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Modules
Modules
The complete redesign of AMOS in connection with the programming of the AMOS client/server version allowed us to revise and enhance the wide spectrum of AMOS functionalities while taking into account customer requirements, proposals and wishes.
Five years ago, the AMOS marketing efforts were mainly directed to small and medium-sized airlines with lean processes.
Today, AMOS is a functionally unsurpassed MRO solution that has grown over a decade and covers the maintenance/engineering/logistic requirements of any large airline/airline group/MRO provider or operator. The following brief survey of the different AMOS modules shall help you to evaluate the strengths and complexity of the system:
• Material Management
• Maintenance & Engineering
• Maintenance Planning
• Financial Management
• Personnel Qualification System
• Component Maintenance
• Maintenance Operations Control
• Interfaces
The complete redesign of AMOS in connection with the programming of the AMOS client/server version allowed us to revise and enhance the wide spectrum of AMOS functionalities while taking into account customer requirements, proposals and wishes.
Five years ago, the AMOS marketing efforts were mainly directed to small and medium-sized airlines with lean processes.
Today, AMOS is a functionally unsurpassed MRO solution that has grown over a decade and covers the maintenance/engineering/logistic requirements of any large airline/airline group/MRO provider or operator. The following brief survey of the different AMOS modules shall help you to evaluate the strengths and complexity of the system:
• Material Management
• Maintenance & Engineering
• Maintenance Planning
• Financial Management
• Personnel Qualification System
• Component Maintenance
• Maintenance Operations Control
• Interfaces
AMOS Technology
Technology
• The multi-tier version of AMOS is programmed in JAVA (object oriented programming), the most popular programming language on the market today.
• AMOS is fully web-enabled which implies the availability of data to whom you want, where you want and when you want. Dependent on the user’s need, ’rich’ client system installations versus ’thin’ client installations are possible alternatives.
• Client updates are performed via web.
• The software is hardware independent. The scalability and flexibility in connection with the choice of hardware/server guarantees the customer a fast return on his investment.
• Optimum tuning of the system: The bandwidth of the customer’s network can be profitably used due to the system’s different compression modi steering the transfer of data.
• For the time being, the system is based on the relational database management system Sybase. On a mid-term basis database independence shall be reached.
• AMOS is a fully integrated system being based on object-oriented architecture.
• Due to the system’s hyperlink technology, linked functionalities can be opened by mouseclick.
• The Graphical User Interface implies ease of use.
• The database administration tools are an inherent part of the system.
• The advanced integration of any kind of external objects into AMOS, such as scanned documents, digital pictures, videos is part of the system. The integration of external objects into AMOS is in particular important with regard to the ‘partnumber’, ‘workorder’, ‘taskcard’ and ‘modification control’ systems. An independent AMOS file system has been created on the AMOS database server so that files can be saved within AMOS. Thereby, restrictions imposed by your LAN are by-passed.
• Every module is equipped with a comprehensive set of reports. The customer may create its own reports with any standard report tool (Access, Crystal Reports etc.).
• Basic working documents, such as workorders, labels, order printouts, taskcards are tailored to the customers’ corporate identity.
• The AMOS support tool is actively used by all our customers.
• The multi-tier version of AMOS is programmed in JAVA (object oriented programming), the most popular programming language on the market today.
• AMOS is fully web-enabled which implies the availability of data to whom you want, where you want and when you want. Dependent on the user’s need, ’rich’ client system installations versus ’thin’ client installations are possible alternatives.
• Client updates are performed via web.
• The software is hardware independent. The scalability and flexibility in connection with the choice of hardware/server guarantees the customer a fast return on his investment.
• Optimum tuning of the system: The bandwidth of the customer’s network can be profitably used due to the system’s different compression modi steering the transfer of data.
• For the time being, the system is based on the relational database management system Sybase. On a mid-term basis database independence shall be reached.
• AMOS is a fully integrated system being based on object-oriented architecture.
• Due to the system’s hyperlink technology, linked functionalities can be opened by mouseclick.
• The Graphical User Interface implies ease of use.
• The database administration tools are an inherent part of the system.
• The advanced integration of any kind of external objects into AMOS, such as scanned documents, digital pictures, videos is part of the system. The integration of external objects into AMOS is in particular important with regard to the ‘partnumber’, ‘workorder’, ‘taskcard’ and ‘modification control’ systems. An independent AMOS file system has been created on the AMOS database server so that files can be saved within AMOS. Thereby, restrictions imposed by your LAN are by-passed.
• Every module is equipped with a comprehensive set of reports. The customer may create its own reports with any standard report tool (Access, Crystal Reports etc.).
• Basic working documents, such as workorders, labels, order printouts, taskcards are tailored to the customers’ corporate identity.
• The AMOS support tool is actively used by all our customers.
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