Every tail number.
Every task card. Every part.
Athena is an integrated digital transformation solution for aerospace and defence: an ERP for aircraft MRO, supply chain management and material planning, with agentic AI across engineering, planning, execution and analytics — so the line, the hangar, the store and finance work from one record of the aircraft.
8 integrated modules · Tech-log to airworthy · One system of record
98.2%
Fleet readiness
▲ 1.4 pts QTD
6.2h
AOG turnaround
▼ 1.8h vs plan
94%
Forecast accuracy
▲ 3 pts YTD
Agent activity stream
- AGENT
Airworthiness eY-2345 returned to service; tech-log closed with zero carries.
- AGENT
Material Planner pT-X01 cover at 6 days; PO-7712 raised for 90-day lead time.
- AGENT
Reliability vibration trend on engine 2 flagged; borescope booked before next cycle.
- READY
Tool Crib torque wrench calibration due in 6 days; 2 tasks reassigned.
- Integrated modules from tech-log to airworthy
- 8Integrated modules from tech-log to airworthy
- Paper task cards, job sheets and manual sign-off
- ~0%Paper task cards, job sheets and manual sign-off
- System of record for aircraft, engines, parts and costs
- 1System of record for aircraft, engines, parts and costs
- Airworthiness, material and AOG monitoring, always on
- 24/7Airworthiness, material and AOG monitoring, always on
Overview
The whole airworthiness record — in one place
Athena connects the tech-log, the work package, the rotable, the sign-off and the invoice on a single aircraft record. Line maintenance, the hangar, the store and finance stop being four organisations that reconcile at month end.
Continuing airworthiness, continuously evidenced
CAMO records, AD/SB compliance and airworthiness logs are produced by the work itself, not assembled for the audit.
Material planned from the maintenance plan
Firm demands, backorders, forecasted consumption, safety stock and PO deliveries are netted cumulatively — so parts wait for the aircraft, not the other way round.
Paperless execution, complete records
Digital work cards, barcode time booking and part movement mean the maintenance record is complete as the work happens.
PBL cost control, not cost surprise
Manpower, material, reliability and readiness feed one profitability picture per contract, tail number and fleet.
From tech-log to airworthy
How a defect becomes a signed, billed, analysed maintenance event
The problem
Four ways an MRO operation loses its margin
None of these appear in the weekly readiness report, because the report is assembled after the fact from records nobody completed at the time.
AOG pressure
The aircraft earns nothing on the ground
Every grounded hour burns contract margin and customer trust. Without live readiness and material cover, the response starts when the delay has already happened.
Every grounded hour costs
Paper task cards
Work happens, the record lags
Mechanics complete the job and sign paper cards that reach planning days later. Job completion, verification and filing trail the aircraft instead of accompanying it.
Days of unsigned paperwork
Parts unavailability
The right part, somewhere else
Rotables sit in the wrong station, shelf life expires unnoticed, and long-lead items are ordered after the need is already critical. The aircraft waits on spares.
AOG waiting on spares
Disconnected systems
Line, hangar, store and finance disagree
Maintenance, materials, man-hours and costs live in separate systems. Reconciling them takes days, and only after period close — when recovery is not possible.
Reconciliation at month end
Modules
8 integrated modules. One connected workflow.
Every module below posts to the same data model, and each carries agents that act on it.
Engineering
- Aircraft configuration management
- AD/SB management & reliability
- Technical library & documents
Planning & Scheduling
- Maintenance forecasting & RCM
- Work packages & PPC
- Material planning
Maintenance Execution
- Digital work cards
- Time booking & sign-off
- Deferred defect control
Supply Chain
- Rotables & consignment stock
- Demand forecasting & MRP
- Shelf-life control
Quality Assurance
- Audits & NCR management
- Part-M & CAR-145 compliance
- Risk management
Flight Operations
- Tech-logs & debriefs
- Fleet serviceability
- Mission capability
Tool Control
- GSE & tool-crib management
- Calibration tracking
- Precision instrumentation
Analytics & BI
- KPI dashboards
- PBL cost & profitability
- Predictive maintenance
“The aircraft earns nothing on the ground — every grounded hour is margin lost.”
Key features
Capabilities that make the operation actually work
Digital work cards & mobile task cards
Paperless cards with structured sign-off, task assignment and mobile execution on the line and in the hangar.
Time booking by barcode
Book time in seconds on any Android phone — or dedicated kiosks with biometrics. Hours distribute automatically across logged work orders.
Part movement by barcode & GPS
Pick, drop and issue parts to work orders with bar/QR codes. Devices work on forklifts and trucks, movements tracked by GPS.
Material forecasting & planning
Statistical forecasting — weighted average, linear regression, exponential, Poisson and Weibull — chosen per part, netted against supply.
AD/SB & reliability management
Airworthiness directives and service bulletins tracked to embodiment, with reliability-centred maintenance and cannibalization control.
Computer vision & RPA
AI models for defect identification, automatic dent-and-buckle recording, and RPA for tech-logs — cutting manual inspection and entry.
Demand forecast vs supply
Rotable coverage across the forecast horizon
Material planning coverage
Availability against the maintenance plan
- Rotable availability96%
- Forecast accuracy94%
- Consignment coverage88%
- Shelf-life compliance99%
- AD/SB closure on time91%
- Tool calibration currency87%
Agentic AI
From a maintenance record to an autonomous hangar
Sovereign by design — the agentic layer runs inside your own deployment (on-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud), against your own operational data, under your own permission model. Your records never leave your jurisdiction.
The aviation agent loop
Every Athena aviation agent runs this cycle continuously against live fleet data — never once, always on
Six agents, six functions, one fleet that never sleeps
Goal-driven agents with adjustable autonomy, permissioned to your workflows
Airworthiness
Continuing Airworthiness Watch
Reads Tech-logs, AD/SB status, deferred defects, flight schedules
Reasons Which aircraft will lose serviceability, and what it takes to keep it
Acts Prioritises the work package and drafts the release paperwork
Material Planner
Demand & Supply
Reads Maintenance plan, BOM, consumption history, stock, open POs
Reasons Which rotable will stock out, and when the order must leave
Acts Raises the PO sized to lead time and MOQ, routed for approval
Reliability
Failure & Trend Analysis
Reads Removal history, failure data, cycles, flying hours, landings
Reasons Which component is trending to failure across the fleet
Acts Opens the inspection task and adjusts the reliability programme
Line Ops
Turnaround & Deferral
Reads Line slots, manpower, GSE, MEL constraints, spares position
Reasons What the turnaround really needs versus what is planned
Acts Re-sequences tasks, reassigns crews and re-plans the window
Tool Crib
Calibration & Custody
Reads Tool register, calibration due dates, task assignments
Reasons Which job is about to use an out-of-calibration tool
Acts Blocks the assignment, books calibration and reassigns the task
PBL Analyst
Cost, Margin & Readiness
Reads Man-hours, material issues, contract terms, readiness
Reasons Where the PBL contract is leaking margin by tail, line or shop
Acts Writes the readiness brief with the three actions that matter
The same grounded aircraft, handled the same way — before and after
Manual process
- Defect phoned in from the line; planning re-keys it into a spreadsheet
- Work package assembled by hand from manuals and memory
- Rotable availability checked by phone — stores, then suppliers, then back
- Paper task cards signed in the hangar, filed days later
- Timesheets transcribed at shift end and keyed the next day
- AD/SB compliance chased across folders before every audit
- Cycle: days to weeks — the aircraft waits on process
Athena + aviation agents
- Tech-log entry lands directly in the defect and reliability register
- Agent builds the work package from the maintenance programme in minutes
- Material agent confirms rotable cover and raises the PO before it is critical
- Digital cards on mobile; barcode time and part movements as they happen
- Hours booked by scan at the task; cost posts to the work package live
- AD/SB evidence compiled continuously — audit-ready on demand
- Cycle: hours — plan the work, stage the parts, sign the card, release the aircraft
Agentic aviation analytics
Ask your fleet data a question. Get a governed, cited answer.
Athena pairs the aircraft record with an agentic analytics layer that reasons across every tech-log entry, work package, rotable movement, man-hour, sign-off, calibration and invoice. Ask it in natural language and it writes the query, runs it, charts it, explains it, and cites the exact records behind the answer — so a number in a board pack is always traceable to its source.
Paired with LucidA — Agentic Analytics, the same capability extends across finance, supply chain and workforce, so fleet performance is read in the context of the whole enterprise.
Natural-language querying
No report builder — ask in the language the hangar and the planning office already use.
Predictive reliability
Forecasts removals, AOG exposure and stockouts from cycles, hours, landings and failure history.
PBL margin intelligence
Separates labour, material, rotable and reliability cost rather than reporting one blended number.
Fleet-wide view
Every tail, station, shop and supplier ranked by exposure in one list.
Which aircraft is costing us the most in unscheduled maintenance, and is it parts or labour?
Agent answered · 1.2s · 6 sources cited
- Tail EY-2345 leads unscheduled cost at 34% over budget across 41 events this year.
- 62% of the overrun is parts — two rotable exchanges at 3× the planned turnaround time.
- Labour is on plan: 96% of task cards signed same shift, overtime flat year on year.
- 18 of 41 events repeat within 90 days on fault code HYD-207.
- Recommended: expedite the remaining rotable batch, raise a reliability case on HYD-207, and pre-empt the 3 sister-ship actuators in the same life band.
AOG & supply risk
Likelihood against operational impact, re-scored from failure and consumption history
Full action audit trail
Every agent decision records its inputs, reasoning and the action taken.
Approval gates
Named human sign-off on the action classes you designate. Configurable per workflow.
Sovereign data residency
The agentic layer runs inside your own deployment, against your own data.
Adjustable autonomy
Advise-only, then draft, then autonomous — you change it without redeploying.
Analytics
Measure readiness, not effort
Eight numbers that tell you whether the fleet is actually available. All configurable against your own KPIs.
Fleet readiness scorecard
Configurable across tails, stations and contracts — readiness review, customer reporting or bid analysis
- Fleet readiness98.2%
- AOG events closed within 24h91%
- Forecast accuracy94%
- Rotable availability96%
- Tool calibration currency99%
- Work cards signed same day96%
- Repeat defects within 90 days8%
- PBL margin within tolerance89%
Fleet readiness
Serviceability index
Forecast accuracy
Planned vs actual demand
Rotables availability
Serviceable pool by station and component
- Rotables serviceable96%
- Consignment cover88%
- Shelf-life compliant99%
- AD/SB kits staged91%
- GSE & tools available87%
Compliance
Built for the regulators you actually answer to
Airworthiness is not a report — it is a record. Athena produces the evidence as a by-product of doing the work, under the frameworks your authority recognises.
Part-M & CAMO
Continuing airworthiness management with complete, auditable logs for every aircraft, engine and component.
CAR-145
Approved maintenance organisation workflows — work packaging, certification and release to service.
Quality Assurance
Audits, inspection checklists, non-conformity reporting and risk management, integrated with maintenance.
AD/SB Compliance
Directives and bulletins tracked from issuance to embodiment, with reliability analysis behind them.
Tool Calibration
Precision instrumentation, GSE and tool-crib control with calibration due-date enforcement.
Sovereign & Secure
SSDLC-built, RBAC-controlled, AES-256 encrypted — on-premise or sovereign cloud, including segregated networks.
Where it applies
Built for everyone who keeps aircraft flying
Wherever there is a tail number, a maintenance programme and a regulator who checks the paperwork.
Implementation
Live in weeks, not quarters
A pilot in eight to twelve weeks, then scale by site, function and route.
Discover
Fleet, maintenance programme, material master and current planning reality.
Configure
Task cards, work centres, approval workflows and KPI baselines.
Mobilise
Data migration, devices, store setup and team training.
Pilot
One line or one fleet type, running live.
Scale
Extend by station, fleet type and contract.
Any device, any hangar
Android handset, tablet or kiosk with biometrics — the app works the same.
Live cost, not month-end
Labour and material post to the work package while the job is still open.
Sovereign & secure
On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud in your region.
Outcomes
What changes in the first year
↓ 60%
AOG time waiting on material
100%
Digital task-card sign-off
↑ 3×
Forecast accuracy
Indicative outcomes from typical deployments. Actual results depend on scope, data quality and process maturity.
FAQ
Aviation & Aerospace — frequently asked questions
The questions procurement, security and engineering ask before the first call.
What is aviation MRO software?
Aviation MRO software runs the maintenance side of flying: the tech-log defect becomes a planned work package, parts are reserved from rotable and consignment stock, mechanics execute digital task cards with barcode time booking, and sign-off, billing and reliability analysis follow from the same record. Because everything posts to one aircraft record, airworthiness evidence exists as a by-product of the work rather than a project before the audit.
Which modules does Athena Aviation & Aerospace include?
Eight integrated modules: Engineering (configuration, AD/SB management, technical library), Planning & Scheduling (forecasting, RCM, work packages, PPC), Maintenance Execution (digital work cards, time booking, sign-off), Supply Chain (rotables, consignments, demand forecasting, MRP), Quality Assurance (audits, NCR, Part-M and CAR-145 compliance, risk), Flight Operations (tech-logs, debriefs, serviceability), Tool Control (GSE, tool-crib, calibration) and Analytics & BI (dashboards, PBL costing, predictive maintenance).
How does Athena handle material forecasting and planning?
Maintenance demand — firm work packages, backorders and forecasted consumption — is netted cumulatively against usable stock, shelf life, safety stock and expected PO deliveries. Statistical methods (weighted average, linear regression, exponential, Poisson and Weibull distributions) are selectable per part, and the agent converts deficits into dated order recommendations sized to lead time and MOQ.
Does Athena support AD/SB compliance and reliability programmes?
Yes. Airworthiness directives and service bulletins are tracked from issuance to embodiment against affected tails, engines and components, with cannibalization control and reliability-centred maintenance behind them. Removal, failure, cycle, flying-hour and landing data feed trend analysis and Weibull life estimates.
Can Athena meet Part-M, CAR-145 and QA requirements?
Athena's aerospace practice covers continuing airworthiness (Part-M/CAMO), approved maintenance organisation workflows (CAR-145), DO-178C, DO-254, MIL-STD and ARP standards, plus ISO 9001 quality programmes — with complete, exportable evidence trails for every record.
How do mobile task cards and time booking work?
Mechanics execute mobile task cards, book time by barcode on any Android phone — or dedicated kiosks with biometrics — and move parts with bar/QR scans tracked by GPS, including on forklifts and trucks. Hours distribute automatically across logged work orders, and the system works with the same flows offline-capable where connectivity is limited.
How does agentic AI work in an MRO operation?
Athena deploys goal-driven agents running a continuous sense–reason–plan–act–learn loop over live fleet data. They sense AOG risk, material shortfalls and calibration expiries; reason about the real driver — a rotable, a lead time, a tool, a crew conflict; plan the cheapest compliant correction; and act by re-planning packages, raising POs, reserving stock and drafting releases. Every action is permissioned, logged and reversible — no agent releases an aircraft alone.
How does Athena handle segregated and sovereign deployments?
Athena is built under a secure SDLC with role-based access, AES-256 encryption and TLS throughout, and supports segregated Red/Blue network operation with controlled, encrypted transfer between them. It deploys on-premise, in a private cloud or in a sovereign cloud region, with on-premise large-language-model options for AI workloads that must never leave the perimeter.
Which aviation businesses is Athena built for?
Airlines, MRO providers, defence aviation, business aviation, helicopter operators, component and engine shops, and lessors with CAMO responsibility. The common requirement is a tail number, a maintenance programme and a regulator who checks the paperwork.
Can Athena Aviation & Aerospace be deployed on-premise?
Yes. On-premise, in a private cloud, or in a sovereign cloud region. That matters because airworthiness records, PBL costings and fleet data are commercially and operationally sensitive, and defence programmes additionally require strict data residency. The mobile applications and the agentic layer run inside the same deployment under your own permission model.
See aviation & aerospace run on Athena
We will configure a working scenario around an operation like yours, switch the agentic layer on live, and let you judge it against real work rather than a slide.
A working demo, not a slideshow
Configured around a scenario like yours.
Sovereign deployment options
On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud.
Phased rollout
Pilot first, then scale by site and function.
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