TG Air

Enterprise Asset Management System for Air Navigation Service Providers

TG Air is a comprehensive Enterprise Asset Management System used by Air Navigation Service Providers to facilitate the operation and management of civilian and defence air traffic control systems.

It is designed around the needs of the front-line users, namely technicians, engineers and supply personnel, which is where many benefits are to be gained from maximising productivity and also where many of the cost related decisions originate.

The system is characterised by a significant degree of automation and in-built error trapping routines serving to reduce the probability of data input error.

It is a paperless environment with all work, supply and purchasing, skills and certifications, etc. being planned, initiated, processed, completed and signed-off electronically.

This solution has many stand-out features including rotable management, configuration management, labour capture, skills & certification tracking, planning & scheduling capability and much more.

In terms of integrations, TG Air can interface with a variety of other systems such as Technology One, JD Edwards, Approval+, Chris 21, Redmine, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft and SAP, and additional integration modules can be developed on demand. TG Air supports GraphQL based Web API making it easy for third parties to integrate with it.

Main features and functional modules

✔︎ Diverse Systems hierarchy and Services matrix
✔︎ Work Activities
✔︎ Preventive Maintenance
✔︎ Engineering Orders
✔︎ Management of Faults and Outages
✔︎ Rotable Management
✔︎ Planning and Scheduling
✔︎ Stores and Inventory management
✔︎ Purchasing – local and international
✔︎ Project Management
✔︎ Skills and Certifications
✔︎ Timesheet and Manpower Tracking
✔︎ Documents and Drawings
✔︎ Financials – real-time, multiple cost components and GL transactions
✔︎ Domain specific Analysis and Reporting
✔︎ Robust third party integration – internal and external, IoT
✔︎ Multi-dimensional security model
✔︎ Notifications, alerts and data audit
✔︎ Local and cloud deployment options

Diverse systems hierarchy and services matrix

● Multi-level organisational structure:

o Locations, Business Units and Teams
o Warehouses and Bulk Stores

● Multi-level equipment (asset) hierarchy:

o Physical structure – systems, subsystems and rotables
o Logical structure – operational services
o Cross-reference matrix links physical and logical structure
o Redundancy and backup infrastructure

Work activities

● Multiple types with soft-coded business rules
● Sophisticated cost allocation
● “One stop shop” for the majority of activities the technician/engineer may be expected to perform, including:

o Related and affected services and their outages
o Tasks to be completed
o Details of work performed
o Details of measurements / test results
o Inventory parts required, issued and returned
o Rotables reserved, issued and fitted or returned
o Purchase orders and receipts
o Electrical safety certificates

● Job pack containing list of tasks, materials and results
● Email alerts

Preventive Maintenance – PM

● Regular scheduled time and meter based PM
● PM forecasting and generation - automatic and ad-hoc
● Associated tasks, estimated man-hours, materials required, etc
● Ability to pre-allocate to a specific Technician or Team

Engineering Orders – EO

● Authority to either install new equipment or modify existing equipment
● Attached technical documentation
● Generated against Subsystems or Rotables
● Ability to pre-allocate to a specific Technician or Team

Management of Faults and Outages

● Fault recorded as a Work Activity
● Identification of valid affected Services if Fault is causing an Outage
● Outage time calculated automatically
● Automatic allocation of Priority based on System’s criticality
● Mandatory allocation to a specific Technician or Team
● Tracking of Fault Type, Fault Cause and Repair Action

Rotable Management

● Rotable is tracked through every step of its lifecycle
● Only serviceable Rotables, which are approved for the Subsystem can be reserved
● Rotables issued against reservations
● Only matching or compatible Rotables can be fitted
● Previous Rotable automatically removed when a replacement part is installed
● Option to create Work Activity for repair of the faulty Rotable
● Rotables, which are under warranty or fixed price repair agreement automatically identified
● Option to repair in-house or to send to an external vendor
● Dedicated Rotable purchasing process
● Rotable inspections are automatically requested for designated Rotable parts

Planning and Scheduling

● Planning:

o Interactive visual tool
o Planning overall work against available resources
o Timeframe of 2 to 24 months
o Demand for manhours for PM and project work
o Typical faults - based on historical data
o Labour productivity
o Staff leave and public holidays

● Scheduling

o Interactive visual tool
o Allocating work to individuals within a daily, weekly or monthly timeframe
o Staff leave and public holidays

Stores and inventory management

● Catalogue of parts
● Multiple warehouses and bins
● Stores receipts, issues and returns
● Stocktake facility
● Stores transfers and packing slips
● Safety stock and lead time
● Flexible reordering methods
● Multiple suppliers with individual ratings

Purchasing – local and international

● Stores and direct charge purchase orders
● Automatic reordering based on stock level and lead time
● Local and international purchase orders
● Automatic currency conversion and rate hedging
● Handling of Freight cost
● Multi-level authorisation facility
● Tolerance-based invoice matching

Project Management

● Work Activities can be assigned to specific Projects
● Costs of associated Work Activities sum up under the Project

Craft skills and certifications

● Hierarchy of skills and certifications
● Multiple skill and certification requirements applicable to physical systems and logical services
● Technician assignment based on appropriate skill set
● Tracking of certification validity and expiry
● Comprehensive certification (re-)validation and renewal

Timesheet and Manpower Tracking

● 100% capture of all labour hours
● Range of employment agreement types with soft-coded remuneration conditions
● Accommodates legislative requirements, e.g. working on a Public Holiday automatically generates a day-in-lieu credit
● Comprehensive set of business rules controlling and automating the majority of entries
● Alerting if a Timesheet is missed, or hours are either greater or less than expected
● All entries require the approval of a supervisor
● All types of leave can be requested and approved or cancelled
● Approval authority can be delegated to cover the absence of the nominated supervisor

Documents and Drawings

● Comprehensive search and filtering capability
● Drawing approval process

Financials – real-time, multiple cost components and GLs

● Internal GL Transaction framework
● Cost tracking – budget, estimates and actuals
● Multiple cost components – manpower, materials, services, indirect charges
● Double entry bookkeeping – debits and credits
● Each financial transaction such as issues and receipts, invoices and payments, can be configured to generate GL transactions
● Flexible and user-configurable financial business rules
● Complete integrations with the financial system of the client’s choice – import of GL accounts and export of resultant GL transactions

Domain specific analysis and reporting

● Comprehensive set of built-in interactive on-screen analytical tools
● Rich set of online and printable reports

Robust Third party integration – internal and external, IoT

● Tight bidirectional integration with other internal systems – financial, payroll, procurement etc.
● Automatic background and interactive user-driven interfaces
● Import / export of GL transactions, invoices and payments, timesheets and leave entitlements
● Optional interfaces to operational and monitoring systems
● Interfaces to external third party systems – suppliers, customers etc.
● Import of price lists, fuel usages, lease charges etc.
● Automatic submission of purchase orders to suppliers, and of invoices to customers

Multi-dimensional security model

● Controlled access to functional areas and data subsets
● Functional security – full / read-only / no access options
● Data security – users can be limited in their ability to access or edit data subsets based on their geographical location or company department
● Support for single sign-on and AD / LDAP integration

Notifications, alerts and data audit

● Dashboard facility to monitor entire system state with the ability to drill-down to details
● Automatic background sentinels continuously monitor for user-defined conditions with immediate notification
● A rich set of sentinels is provided out-of-the-box and additional sentinels can be defined
● Notifications can appear as interactive prompts, emails and SMS
● Completely user-configurable data auditing – every data entry can be audited for change

Local and cloud deployment options

● Native local and cloud deployment strategy based on Docker