Swiss-AS is pleased to announce the recent contract signature with DRF Luftrettung, one of Europe’s major air rescue companies based in Germany, regarding the license and implementation of AMOS.

Over the last decades, DRF’s Part 145 scope of work, number of staff and facilities have constantly expanded. The company growth brought many challenges with it. To face and tackle these, the company performed an extensive process-streamlining project in which context also the maintenance software was reviewed. The legacy software was implemented in the 1980s and with the company wide review it became evident that a new maintenance software was inevitable.
The AMOS MRO Edition convinced the DRF with its rich functionality. Considering DRF’s very varied fleet, having one common and highly integrated system will surely help the customer to have at any time a clear and complete overview of their fleet maintenance requirements and activities. The project was kicked-off in October. Swiss-AS will staff the project mainly with German speaking employees for a smooth project communication.

Swiss-AS celebrating its success with helicopter operators

In the past years, Swiss-AS had added many new functions for helicopter operators, while the AMOS rotary wing customer base has also increased considerably and counts now eight companies. Currently, five AMOS implementations are running in parallel at helicopter operators.
By selecting AMOS, DRF will not only be able to manage a mix of fixed and rotary wing aircraft in a fully integrated system, they will also be able to utilize functions that are far more critical for the rotary wing aircraft, such as the Counters in AMOS. Being especially able to create and customize an unlimited number of counters will allow DRF to accurately track multiple parameters on the aircraft and components and in turn manage their maintenance requirements. As their fleet can have regular mission configuration adaptations, AMOS functions such as Configuration Definition and Configuration Control ensures that all related effectivity driven events are updated accordingly.

AMOS – the best fit for helicopter operators

When the first customer of Swiss-AS, the Swiss Air-Rescue (Rega), signed for AMOS in 1992, the foundation was laid for ensuring that AMOS complied with the special requirements of the helicopter maintenance industry by providing dedicated functions in the system only relevant for helicopters, such as

• Vibration monitoring to identify early stages of helicopter component degradation
• Dynamic counter options to optimise maintenance control and performance
• Complete suite of engineering requirements to control the helicopter specific maintenance needs
• Management of extensive pooling contracts
• Mission logic (individual system capability set up aligned to the types of missions flown)
• In-depth effectivity rule logic to track fleet uniformity or customer preference

DRF Luftrettung can fully rely on AMOS due to AMOS not being in any way limited to specific helicopter types, but covering the wide range of different helicopter OEM requirements.