Airline maintenance firmATC
Lashamis improving its production environment
with a software suite from Lawson Software.
ATC has taken the
M3 7.1
Application Suite to run on
IBM's i5 Series servers. The software will go live in early
2008.
ATC, based at Lasham Airfield in Hampshire, was established by
Dan Air in 1954, and for more than 30 years has been used for the
heavy maintenance of
Boeing aircraft.
In 2003, due to business expansion, it added a second site at
London Southend Airport, primarily for the maintenance of Europe 's
expanding Airbus fleet.
ATC Lasham has been running a mixture of in-house developed
production systems and packaged systems, but neither can now match
market requirements, said ATC.
It needed to find a system that would enable common processes
across both its sites, and provide simple, seamless
integration.
The Lawson M3 suite will aid greater visibility across the
entire business, better management of stock levels, and, through
implementation of Lawson Business Intelligence, real-time
information for management reporting.
Andy Finch, general manager at ATC Lasham, said, "The fact that
the Lawson M3 software is specifically tailored to the needs of a
maintenance business, and can be scaled as we grow our business,
means we now have a future-proof solution."
To aid the implementation process, the company will deploy the
Lawson Learning Accelerator training tool.