GOLDesp for Military Maintenance

GOLDesp™ provides maintenance management capability for the digital battlefield, including a variety of automated tools not typically provided by a traditional, manufacturing-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The Maintenance module of GOLDesp provides airworthiness decision support and a paperless working environment, plus the major benefit of delivering consistent procedures for users. Maintenance tools are available to schedule and record maintenance actions, control and update configurations, and evaluate maintainability and reliability, right down to the individual component level by part number and serial number (and now IUID (Item Unique Identifier)). Special tools are also available for repair tracking of components through back shops and out to sub-vendors, to capture repair costs and measure and manage each step of the repair process to reduce repair cycle times.

The Maintenance module of GOLDesp is designed to retain the proven, battle-tested features of Miro's Work Recording & Asset Management (WRAM Online) application, a version of GOLD used by the U.K. Ministry of Defence to support aircraft maintenance for over 650 helicopters and other aviation platforms for the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force. GOLDesp retains the unique capability of WRAM Online to autonomously support deployed units both ashore and afloat by means of effective data distribution. 'Deployability' means that units in the field can maintain aircraft and control airworthiness in a disconnected environment, entirely without the need to connect their laptops to a central server. A summary of GOLDesp features and capabilities follows:

• Flexible, comprehensive suite of integrated Maintenance and Supply management solution built for military maintenance and logistics. Functionality completeness based on best business practices.
• Supports flight-line (forward) activity and depot-level (depth) and supply wholesale logistics (1st through 4th level MRO capabilities).
• Combat proven, fully deployable maintenance solution – supports multiple, remote independent operations with automated re-synchronization with a central database.
• Total Asset Availability to support PBL and weapons availability contracts
• Interoperability - provides tri-service capability (Army, Navy and Air Force) for aircraft engineering and asset management on a single, networked system, thus improving combat force capability through increased logistical visibility and equipment availability
• Decision-support tool that can be used on multiple levels:
  • Operational level - exception-based reporting and business process monitoring
  • Executive level - improved Total Asset Visibility movements and repairs
  • Strategic level - failure and trend analysis and for improving engineering and preventative maintenance
• Advanced technology – GOLDesp is Java EE compliant and based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); scalable, open-source platform. Proven transaction engine.
• Scalability – proven ability to support as few as eight users and as many as 10,000.
• Connectivity - easy integration with existing corporate infrastructure (portals, dashboards, security, etc.). Extensive set of APIs to seamlessly integrate with military and defense contractor systems.

Miro Technologies® delivered a single maintenance management solution for the UK MOD for rotary wing users (Royal Navy, Army and Air Force).  See the case study for more information.