Track: Industry Solutions

Abstract

The research aims to develop a framework for a locally designed computerized maintenance management system for general and military aviation in Zimbabwe with the aim to bolster the meandering engineering management artifacts in the country’s aviation industry. The observation came about after a series of aircraft incidents and accidents that are claiming lives due to a series of cheese model errors being brought about by the current paper-based approach. The Paper-based approach lacks track of events due to the cumbersome work an individual is exposed to whenever a task has to be fulfilled. The research modelled a software prototype as proof of concept, capable of tracking and monitoring events, generate observations into reports, link management to tradesman thereby improving communication across the board and account for each event among other activities. The system will be generating real time reports taking advantage of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing among others. The results were noted and analyzed giving desired outputs in response to input data and the system performance satisfied the objectives set on the onset of the research. The conclusions, recommendations were made and indications on where the system needs improvement for future engineering and technical developments.