Our Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul Capabilities Come Naturally 

Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), as well as Maintenance and Engineering concerns, which provide maintenance services to their customers, are constantly faced with the problems of accurately tracking maintenance activities and controlling associated costs. Other significant challenges are related to compliance with quality and safety standards dictated by their industry-specific governing bodies. 

Due to Cubicorp’s strong focus in the Engineer-To-Order (ETO) markets, the Cubic MRO software solution provides specific functionality for companies in the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) business. The need of MRO companies to be efficient in the aftermarket services related to complex, high cost assemblies, thereby generating additional revenues and profits, is addressed by Cubicorp through the following product offerings: 


EQUIPMENT / ASSET MANAGEMENT

Cubic ERP Equipment/Asset Management allows for the definition of Maintenance Significant Items (MSI) and the ability to track hardware configurations with full lot and serial number traceability, throughout upstream and downstream processes. 

• Hardware Breakdown Structures (HBS)

  • Baselines may be defined for As-Designed, As-Built, As-Deployed, and As-Maintained configurations
  • Tracking rules may be defined for position annotations and Line Replaceable Units (LRU)
  • Illustrated Parts Catalogs (IPC) cross reference and annotation
  • On condition, standard replacement and failure allocation ability

• Maintenance Significant Item (MSI) definition

  • Mission and Deployment profiles are user-definable
  • Tracking of failures by mission and profile
  • Criticality analysis and damage effect per failure
  • Preventive and/or corrective user-definable maintenance tasks

  • Logistical resources per task that include:

    • Spare parts
    • Tooling required
    • Facilities and/or equipment needed for repairs
    • HR skills/certification requirements needed to complete the maintenance task

     

• Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) Profiles

• Rules dictating whether an LRU may be repaired or must be discarded 
• Configurable serial number tracking rules

• Logistical collaboration for:

  • Customer Furnished Items (CFI)
  • Consigned stock from strategic suppliers
  • Substitution management by contract and/or project
• Engineering Change Management with an embedded workflow approval process
• Non-Conformance Management and Material Review Boards (MRB)
• Logistical documentation including Illustrated Parts Catalogs (IPC) and Workshop Repair Manuals (WRM), drawings and specifications

QUALITY, COSTING AND PLANNING

Quality Management, Costing and Planning tools ensure that parts arrive on time, within budget and to specification. Cubic ERP workflow keeps the appropriate employees informed at all relevant times. These benefits are ensured by:

• Full defect tracking and non-conformance resolution
• Main equipment specific budget with scenario planning
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) mapping to HBS with cost and scheduled constraint management
• User-definable labor and material resource items by WBS item
• Real-time commitment and actual cost tracking
• MRP driven material plan by WBS item with workflow managed requisitioning
• Labor resource/cost center specific labor recovery rules with workflow-driven time sheet management

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Tracking of inventory levels by Project/WBS inventory quantities and types is possible:

• New, used, awaiting repair and repaired LRU management
• Remaining life units expressed in LRU Denomination Of Life (DOL), with regard to repaired and used LRU
• Ownership and disposition management includes Customer Furnished Inventory (CFI), project/contract designation with contract governed commingling rules
• Contract-specific engineering baseline management
• Quarantine management by contract/project including MRB adjudication

FULFILLMENT MANAGEMENT

Fulfillment management with Cubic enterprise software includes:

• MRP by WBS item with contract-driven priority designation
• Workflow-enabled Requisitioning
• MRP compliance with commingling and designated priority rules
• WIP management with tracking and tracing of LRU throughout the extended supply chain with As-Maintained/As-Built serial/lot designation extending to position annotation rules as per the HBS
• Event-driven, workflow enabled constraint management with project and/or contract-specific, chain-on activities

CUBIC DATA RETRIEVAL AND REPORTING CAPABILITIES

The following form part of the Decision Support System and are used in the analysis of mission-critical data by providing visible information from start to finish of any activity:

• Quick-Query ^TM user-definable reports
• Graphical Analytical Tools
• Executive Information System (EIS)
• Online Data Export to Desktop Tools
• Data Warehousing and Retrieval
• Planner / Buyer Analysis Tools

BUSINESS BENEFITS OF A CUBIC SOLUTION

The major benefits of deploying a Cubic solution are reduction in costs, and reduction in loss of opportunity and productivity as well as minimized business workflow disruption. This is achieved through the accelerated implementation cycle, the scripted and automated upgrade path, knowledge transfer during the implementation, low cost operation of the system, and visibility of credible information. 

CUBICORP – THE SOLUTION FOR MRO OPERATIONS

Due to its focus on ETO functionality and the flexibility of Cubic enterprise software, Cubicorp is able to provide low maintenance, state-of-the-art, reliable solutions to meet the industry-specific needs of the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul industry. These strengths allow MRO operators to focus on their core business thereby increasing equipment/asset up-time, productivity and profitability, while reducing inventory levels, costs and turnaround times. For all of the above reasons, your choice for an MRO business solution has been made easy – Cubic!

Cubicorp looks forward to addressing your company’s MRO challenges. 

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