Purpose
1. Automate preventative maintenance scheduling for aircraft and ground vehicles within air force bases.
2. Ensure timely inspections, parts replacements, and safety checks according to regulatory requirements, reducing manual oversight.
3. Integrate data from sensors, aviation logs, and maintenance records to proactively schedule work, optimize uptime, and ensure mission-critical readiness.
4. Synchronize logistics, notify technicians, order necessary parts, and maintain audit trails for regulatory compliance.
Trigger Conditions
1. Scheduled hours/cycles flown or driven reach threshold (e.g., 100 flight hours).
2. Sensor alerts detect performance anomaly or part wear.
3. Calendar-based (e.g., first Monday of every month for inspections).
4. Regulatory bulletins or airworthiness directives issued.
5. Task completion or rescheduling requests logged by maintenance leads.
Platform Variants
1. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Editor—configure to auto-create maintenance tickets upon reaching flight hour thresholds.
2. SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
• Feature/Setting: Maintenance Plan API—schedule periodic maintenance orders via REST trigger.
3. IBM Maximo
• Feature/Setting: Preventive Maintenance module—activate condition-based triggers for specific vehicles.
4. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Recurrence + HTTP trigger—poll vehicle telemetry API, trigger scheduling workflow.
5. Salesforce Field Service
• Feature/Setting: Einstein Automate—auto-assign field techs as soon as asset data meets criteria.
6. Oracle Maintenance Cloud
• Feature/Setting: REST APIs—initiate work order creation for routine checks.
7. IFS Applications
• Feature/Setting: Maintenance Scheduling Service—auto-populate calendar based on machine telemetry feeds.
8. Fleet Complete
• Feature/Setting: Fleet Tracking—set triggers for maintenance scheduling on mileage or engine hour thresholds.
9. Azure Logic Apps
• Feature/Setting: HTTP Webhook—listen for sensor events, pass to maintenance scheduler API.
10. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks—send time-critical maintenance alerts to dedicated channels.
11. Google Calendar
• Feature/Setting: Event API—auto-create staff events for maintenance appointments.
12. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Card Automation—generate maintenance board cards upon trigger conditions.
13. Jira Service Management
• Feature/Setting: Automation Rules—open maintenance issues as assets hit preset thresholds.
14. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: REST API—escalate overdue or urgent maintenance tasks to on-call staff.
15. Splunk
• Feature/Setting: Alert Actions—trigger maintenance automation via log events from vehicle diagnostics.
16. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Ticket Automation—route maintenance requests and updates to support workflows.
17. SAP SuccessFactors
• Feature/Setting: Onboarding workflow—notify training staff for recurrent licensing checks.
18. DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: eSignature Templates—initiate sign-off on completed maintenance tasks.
19. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Apps Script Triggers—track maintenance cycles, send reminders via Gmail.
20. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated Workflows—update master maintenance sheet and notify relevant teams.
21. Twilio
• Feature/Setting: SMS API—send urgent maintenance reminders to technicians’ mobiles.
22. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Transactional Email API—push status updates for scheduled work to relevant teams.
Benefits
1. Minimizes unplanned downtime, ensuring all assets are mission-ready.
2. Reduces manual scheduling errors and improves regulatory compliance.
3. Streamlines technician notification and resource allocation.
4. Enables predictive planning using live vehicle data, prolonging asset lifespans.
5. Produces complete audit trail for maintenance and inspection records.
Operations & Maintenance Automation