MAINTENANCE SOLUTIONS 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING

By Miguel Foncerrada, Chief Executive Officer, LogisticsMRO, Inc.

LogisticsMRO, Inc. is an aviation mainte-nance software provider headquartered in Washington, DC. The company was officially launched in 2018, but its roots go back to the 1980s, when its founders, Miguel Foncerrada, Kurt Lindberg and Terry Lubenow, began developing software for mili-tary applications and many of the U.S. Depart ment of Defense's major contractors. At the time, the three LogisticsMRO founders worked together at Western Pacific Data Systems. They developed the Govern ment On-Line Data (GOLD) system, which most large U.S. defense department contractors and multiple militaries worldwide quickly imple-mented. A Boeing Company, Tapestry Solu tions, eventually purchased Western Pacific Data Systems, and the software Foncerrada, Lindberg and Lubenow developed is still used worldwide under the name AuRA. In 1999, the same development team founded a new aviation maintenance software company, Internet Business Applications, Inc. The new firm produced the Aerospace Repair Management System (ARMS) software, and the technology was also acquired by a Boeing division-this time Inventory Locator Service in 2006. The acquiring company renamed the software Optimizer, and multiple companies still use it today. Foncerrada now serves as LogisticsMRO's chief executive officer, while Lindberg is chief technology officer and Lubenow is chief revenue officer. After launching their new firm in 2018 and beginning ful-time product development, the three founders released their first software, commonly known as LogMRO, in 2019. The product was focused on inventory management for aviation companies, a key component for anyone performing aircraft maintenance. In 2020, the LogisticsMRO founders followed the software with a second major module focused specifically on aircraft main-tenance. Repair stations doing component overhauls, as well as engine shops and heavy maintenance facilities doing airliner C and D checks, use the module extensively.

Working with powerline service firm Mountain Power Construction and using its prior experience developing aircraft mainte nance and configuration management soft-ware for the Naval Air Systems Command and other military users, LogisticsMRO has developed a software product applicable to all rotor-wing aircraft operations. The company's LogMRO software includes the following functions: Aircraft Configuration Tracks each component installed on any aircraft. Lifing-Tracks the limits and current life since new and since overhaul on each component based on hours, cycles or any other operator measure (e.g. RINS, torque events). Usage-Users enter flights and meter readings to update each component's life Inspections-Tracks scheduled maintenance tasks with time due for each inspection and work to be performed. Power Checks-Users can enter both max and normal power checks. Work Management-Integrates fully with work management modules. Inventory Management-Integrates fully with inventory systems to track all components, consumables, cali bratable tools, kits, shelf-lives, acqui sitions and more. LogMRO relies on a "metadata driven model." Using the model, developers create user pages by defining what fields and any necessary plugin logic are included (i.e. metadata). Each page is built automatically by reading the available metadata. What does all that mean for users? They can customize the system by changing the metadata and without doing any actual programming. LogisticsMRO delivers all the necessary metadata, making its users' changes relatively simple and leaving large, complex enhancements to authorized integrators. LogisticsMRO is constantly working to improve the products it provides airborne public safety operators. Soon, the company expects to release updates to allow users to download any aircraft data from the cloud onto a local drive. The firm is also working to provide the ability to access/update all information while on disconnected computers and receive automatic updates upon cloud reconnec-tion, a feature specifically designed for aircraft working in remote locations on jobs like firefighting and construction. Finally, LogisticsMRO is working toward introducing its own fully integrated safety management systems. LogisticsMRO's software is driven by technology developed and improved over more than 40 years. Now, airborne public safety operators have access to the same powerful maintenance, repair and overhaul technology that has been trusted by mili-tary users for decades.