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Before taking a plane, you’re looking at the tracks, the plane, the people who load the bags, workers are loading the aircraft fuel. I guess it’s in our curious nature trying to know what is happening and how things are done, but with the airports, it seems something mystical.
I’m not particularly a fan of the world of aircraft, but I’m curious enough to suit me know what do each of those people who are below the plane you’re about to hop and how they work.
This week
Iberia Airlines has filed an initiative with Panasonic to make all those people who are working to make your flight departs on time, weather willing, more efficient. We have laid at the feet of an Airbus A321 to see what he has done Pansonic with their laptops and tablets Toughbook , this range of devices “ on modules ” and are able to withstand drops, dust or water.
is a project of Iberia to get rid of all paper possible during ramp operation and the time to be informed of what is happening at the bottom of the plane.
Of all the steps that need to leave a plane prepared for them to embark passengers and can take off to your destination, what they define as “ramp operation” is all that is happening on the ground. From fill fuel tanks to carry bags.
Iberia are using tablets and convertible PCs to manage everything, so that the same airline in different airports and the control tower, know what’s going on a plane.
These PC tablets and are quite curious, apart from their outward appearance, they are using Wi-Fi networks and 3G to connect to servers on the airline, but even more curious is that much information directly from the browser works and little from own applications. A manager can load bags from a website to know how many bags are loaded, how many are left or if the warehouse is full from a panel that is just a website.
They use devices like the Android tablet Toughpad FZ-A1 , a 10-inch tablet with Jelly Bean specially designed to withstand use outdoors. We may think our tablets are hard, but well, not just any will hold a fall of a few feet, that a storm strikes above or you can view the screen with direct light in a very sunny day.
As for safety, these teams are constantly monitoring a worker arolínea have to use your card to get one of the offices and take it to track and access to services of Iberia is locked only to airport can even be disabled if you exit the airport from a checkpoint.
guess everything should be digitized today, but it is curious to see how everything is digitized, especially when what is sought is effectively to save time and resources. Iberia has no data on how much it has cost this whole system, which should not be cheap, but they say it is worth simply by the time your employees are saved and tons of paper that could be achieved in savings.
No wonderan airline bets on the use of this type of equipment, they are hard for the work they have to perform and quite durable, but still, even trying to mobilize a ground staffing why not use smartphones? I do not mean to use the latest smartphone market, if not a special or modified to make this work.
If the issue is to remove unnecessary items today as the role, I think that a smartphone with a protective casing and to add many hours of battery life, which also integrates barcode reader is a much simpler solution. One example is the iPod Touch using the Apple Store, with its own software but with an added battery housing, credit card reader and barcode reader, smartphone seems a much more simple and inexpensive.
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Published on Friday, May 10, 2013, at 08:00 am (GMT -4).
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