4Sight Technologies specializes in planning and scheduling with its em360, PMPro and CheckPlan products. A certified disadvantaged business enterprise, 4Sight has worked for companies in many sectors, including Boeing, United Airlines and Federal Express. Its em360 application streamlines inspection, planning and production control, the company says. It creates a schedule for service and maintenance from beginning to end and plans resources such as tools, parts and technicians. Work orders detailing jobs are also created. The resource and shift calendar are applied to the work order, resource categories are assigned to job cards and initial schedules are created. Em360 provides real-time feedback, and inspectors may instantly apply non-routine work to created work orders. With constraint-based scheduling, em360 can adjust existing schedules so the completion date is updated and cost is minimized. Em360's maintenance module also offers ability to create non-routines and obtain approvals prior to additions to work orders, creation of issue logs for items that arise with individual tasks and reviews of the history of repairs performed. Cost centers are credited, inventory is adjusted and vendors are contacted for refreshment of depleted items. www.4sighttech.com/technology/maintenance-management.php

Aerdata Software makes several products. Corporate Management System (CMS) is for aircraft and engine lease and asset management. Forty-one customers use the web-enabled CMS, which is based on asp.net and Citrix. CMS is designed to offer better financial control of leased aircraft, reduce risks and save effort by directly interfacing with existing financial software, according to the company. Its market is airlines, lessors, financial institutions and asset-management firms. Aerdata's Secure Technical Records for Electronic Asset Management (Stream) is a powerful, dedicated aircraft and engine records tool that provides remote access to technical records on demand and allows viewing, workflow participation, searching, export, editing and uploading from one interface. Full-text barcode search locates documents quickly. Stream integrates with maintenance software. Stream is based on asp.net and Windows Presentation Foundation. Engine Fleet Planning And Costing (Efpac) is a total engine management solution whose functionalities include integration of technical, operational and financial information, optimized budget forecasts, removal plans, shop visits and management of maintenance reserves. Based on Delphi and Citrix, Efpac is used by 15 airlines, MROs and lessors. www.aerdata.com

AviIT offers eMan, a document- and library-management system that enables easy access and viewing of any format of documentation, including those wrapped in OEM-provided applications, from any location, the company says. All electronic content is centrally organized for instant access, and tools enable librarians to manage efficient distribution of electronic documents. Revision dates and numbers provide traceability and audit reports ensuring full visibility of material being used. Functionalities also include on-demand user access, version control, linking service bulletins to main publications, third-party access to authorized documents, support of mobile solutions via laptops, and electronic read and sign. EMan uses thin-client-based technologies and cloud-based architecture. EMan can manage maintenance applications, internal documents and any electronic records, with version control and audits. Customers include Monarch Aircraft Engineering, Airberlin Technik and Virgin Atlantic Airways. The target market includes airlines MROs and service centers. www.aviit-eman.com

Armac Systems offers RIOsys for inventory management. The solution helps inventory planners calculate optimal inventory levels, even when demand is unscheduled, components are numerous and multisite operations are normal, the company says. RIOsys is designed to accommodate unscheduled demand patterns of both slow-moving, high-cost and fast-moving, low-cost inventory. The solution complements an existing ERP system, continuously calculates and recalculates optimized stock levels and suggests prioritized purchasing decisions that meet required service levels without over-investment. Designed to be easy to install, RIOsys extracts data from existing inventory-management systems and covers all inventory types—consumable, repairable, expendable, insurance, emergency, rotable, spare, engineering, aftermarket and asset items. It can be provided as a hosted service, ongoing consultancy service or one-off assistance. Standard rollout times are less than one month. RIOsys has been used by companies such as SR Technics, Bombardier, Thomas Cook and Stork Fokker Services. www.armacsystems.com

CALM Systems offers the Computerized Aircraft Log Manager (CALM), the Computerized Aircraft Reliability Tracking System (CART), a publication distribution program and electronic flight logs. http://calm-systems.com

Component Control's core product, Quantum Control, is a fully integrated business software solution designed to promote comprehensive and safe adherence to complex FAA certification rules of compliance, the company says. Standard modules include inventory management, purchase orders and requests, purchase management, receiving, vendor quotes and quotation processing, sales orders and exchange, invoice and currency management, multitax capability, repair orders, company management, ILS integration, physical inventory, security, data services and management reports. Optional modules include aircraft services, hangar management, shop control, manufacturing, repair manual tracking, lot costing, remote inventory, accounting, time and attendance, fixed asset, forms designer, shipping manager, warranty, document imaging, bar coding, contact manager and event manager and report scheduler. Quantum is used by 1,200 aviation customers worldwide in over 54 countries, including component, engine and airframe MROs, OEM part distributors, aircraft owners and resellers, completion centers and regional airlines. www.componentcontrol.com

Corena specializes in document management and system integration for several industries, including aerospace. For management of commercial aviation, MRO Corena solutions ensure smooth authoring and review collaboration with regulatory agencies and equipment manufacturers and increased compliance with regulatory requirements, according to the company. For job-card and work-scope generation, Corena ensures mechanics information at their fingertips, thus increasing efficiency. Corena's online technical library provides a single location for all technical content, minimizing search time, reducing errors, simplifying compliance and cutting cost and hassle of paper manuals. Fully scalable, modular and open-standard, the Corena product suite enables management of all data with an easy-to-use, configurable system. The suite allows utilization of data within existing ERP systems through automated job cards. www.corena.com

Critical Technologies' AirVault is a web-based solution enabling fleet and asset maintenance records management across the aviation ecosystem, linking aircraft operators, owners, OEMs, MROs and supply-chain providers. Accessing its private cloud from any web browser, AirVault protects, stores, retrieves and shares archived information with any authorized person anywhere, the company says. AirVault manages four billion documents from redundant data centers in Dallas and Oklahoma City. Accelerated searching helps customers find documents matching their requirements, with both full-text and fielded searches. Documents can be loaded from the MRO floor, on the tarmac or from remote-scanning locations. Fax, data-direct and email data is accepted automatically. Functionalities include maintenance-records capture, recognition, indexing, storage, retrieval and sharing. Twenty-two customers with 14% of the world's commercial aircraft use AirVault. www.criticaltech.com, www.airvault.com

EMC now offers XHive, an XML-focused content management system. As an independent company, XHive had served customers in aerospace that deal with S1000D content structures, including Boeing, Fokker Services and Northwest Airlines. Now XHive is one repository in EMC's Documentum suite. Documentum ECM 6.5 provides extensive library services. The architecture is object-oriented, so creation of different document types is facilitated by dedicated graphical user interfaces that manage libraries of attribute types, according to the company. www.emc.com/products-solutions/index.htm