Millennial Dashboard for Mechanics & Inspectors
Electronic Labor, Signature and Productivity System

This digital dashboard puts repair information, signatures and recordings just a click away. Time spent searching for bulky manuals and forms is gone. All your inspectors and mechanics need for an engine overhaul is at their fingertips. Inspector sign off. BOM explosions, manuals, pictures, and tooling required is all on one screen in front of the right person right now.

Large crates arrive in Naples based AirTechnology from Asia, South America and Arabia containing worn or damaged engines of Vietnam to modern era helicopters. They leave overhauled and ready to fly. Stringent FAA regulations and oversight concentrate these skilled workers in the US and right here in Naples. Customers worldwide seek out this quality. Maximizing value-adding labor “FAA regulations require tracking and paperwork. Paperwork requires time and reduces value-adding labor. We streamline processes to maximize value-adding labor. Only a turning wrench fixes an engine.” says Timothy Proksch, President of Pronto Progress – a software company specializing in paperless electronic systems.

Digital Dashboard The system works by putting the mechanic only one click away from all the information, electronic manuals, standard procedures, Service Bulletins and Airworthiness Directives necessary for a specific engine, component or part. No hunting for paperwork. No overlooked steps. This “digital dashboard” collects information such as employee production, payroll, billable hours, efficiency, apprentice and training metrics, requisitions for replacement parts, all in one computer based step. To complete a task the employee checks the ‘complete’ box and enters any measurements required. Swiping their badge signs the work digitally and records information such as elapsed time. The badge is a security token that uniquely identifies each employee and which acts as his personal signature. The next task is then displayed. Quality/Competiveness; key to AirTechnology “Paperwork and office labor accounts for almost half of the cost of repairing or overhauling an engine. This new dash board reduces the time spent on the computer, plus it gives me better operational information.” explains Mike Turner, President of Air Technology. “The next step will be to monitor the trends – efficiency, cost and turn-time.’ explains Mr. Proksch. Turn-time is the length of time the engine stays in Naples instead of working on the helicopter. This is a crucial industry metric where faster is better.