A German Airport Selects Chainway for Its Asset Management

Background
Ordered asset management dose matter to ensure safety of ground operations, aircrafts taking off, taxiing and landing. With the rapid development of air transport in Germany, high-density flights taking off and landing, complex ground operating environment put forward higher requirements for airport's infrastructure maintenance. It becomes a primary task for the German airport to ensure the safety of airport infrastructure such as the runway, taxiway surface, lighting system and so on, and at the same time to maximize the level of infrastructure maintenance and reduce the maintenance time to provide more operational resources. At this point, the German airport is turning to RFID technology to better its asset management and to eliminate myriad issues that come along with manual asset tracking.
 
Challenges

• There are too many asset facilities to be inspected, from large machines to small gadgets, from runway and taxiway to parking apron. Inspection work in this large-scale airport is really heavy.

• Manual asset tracking is error-prone, and one single error will bring the airport great danger.

• It is difficult to dynamically monitor the inspectors. Potential risks are ready to erupt at any time.

• Inspection data cannot be transmitted in real time. If some breakdown is found out, the maintenance can't be made instantly, which affects the airport's normal operation.

 
Solutions
Shenzhen Chainway Information Technology Co., Ltd is focused on RFID enabled integrated tracking and visibility solution. C5000 mobile computers with 2D barcode scanning, camera,
Wi-Fi and UHF RFID functions, can identify and locate mobile assets across the vast airport landscape. The airport departments can improve asset availability, reduce the time spent on searching for misplaced items, optimize maintenance schedules and provide better passenger service. What's more, all data captured by the PDA can be updated to the database server in time.
 
Effects

• It completely changes equipment inspection mode in the airport, improves the inspection efficiency and data availability. PDA can quickly count and inspect the assets throughout the airport and identify misplaced items and maintain a correct inventory.

• Integrated UHF module supports for long-range but accurate scanning, making inspection work more convenient.

• It realizes dynamic monitoring of the airport inspectors. Safety level has been lifted high and higher.

• Airport asset audits are performed in much less time and asset utilization rates and ROI is improved.

• It enables managers and chief financial officers to successfully carry out maintenance plans, which Increases asset utilization, lowers replacement costs and betters resource planning.

 
PDA Configuration
P/N: C5000
Functions: 2D, UHF RFID, Camera, Wi-Fi