Uses of Industrial Windows Tablets for the Aviation Industry

The aviation industry encompasses all aspects of air travel, flight maintenance, and other airport activities that help to facilitate aviation services. The airline industry, whether at the counter, in the air, or at the maintenance centre, need to maintain quality, gather and secure information, and provide personalised services. From pressure changes in the cockpit to the ground handling of aircraft, this industry needs a rugged solution that can work in all weather conditions, extremes of temperature, darkness, and bright daylight.

Industrial Windows tablets are built for harsh environments with water, dust, temperature, and shock resistance, night vision capabilities and daytime brightness. They are designed with a robust set of features that help them to withstand industrial use. With a full Windows operating system, embedded broadband & Wi-Fi, GPS, and scanner capabilities, they make everyday tasks a lot easier in the aviation industry. Here are the uses of rugged, industrial tablets in the civil aviation sector.

1. Aircraft Maintenance and Repair

The successful operation of airlines depends a lot on the maintenance, repair, and overhaul process (MRO) of aircraft. This process involves huge manual paperwork. Industrial Windows tablet with your MRO software eliminates paperwork, speeds up the routine work, and get the job done safely while meeting the standard operating procedures. As ruggedized handheld devices are built with IP 65 and MIL-STD 810G certification, they work successfully irrespective of the prevailing working conditions found in the aircraft maintenance facilities.

2. Rugged Device as Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs)

Electronic information management devices can help flight crews perform all paperwork and communication efficiently and securely. Due to the enterprise-grade security, durability, military-grade built, and long battery of industrial Windows tablet, they offer rugged mobility to pilots and cabin crew. They help flight crew to go paperless and use their rugged devices as electronic flight bags. From accessing crucial information like flight plans and passenger manifests to communicating with each other, airline crews can use their industrial tablets without the fear of device failure under the conditions that they work.

3. Airline Ground Handling

Ground handling refers to a wide range of services including ground preparation for departing or arriving flights, baggage and freight handling, aircraft work, and customer services (like ticketing, boarding, check-in, lounge management, etc). With so many administration and management required in ground handling, the airline industry needs purpose-built, rugged devices for a faster communication, approvals, scheduling, and customer service. No matter what is the condition, airline staff can use rugged tablets to provide all services with efficiency and punctuality.

Other applications of rugged handheld devices:

• Accelerate the delivery of business information from the front lines to the main control rooms.

• Operations managers and IT managers can use military-grade laptops to securely use web-based applications and databases for accurately and safely tracking and recording flight operations while managing staff smoothly.

• Staff can use rugged tablets to manage incidents quickly. Managers can use them for workforce scheduling and maintenance planning.

• Industrial Windows tablets can also be used for staff training and access electronic user manuals when required.

Conclusion

With fully ruggedized handheld devices and industrial laptops, airlines and service providers can increase overall efficiency, accuracy, and punctuality in all operations, from ground handling, customer service to aircraft maintenance. Panasonic’s range of Toughpad rugged tablets and Toughbook military-grade laptops are perfect for airport, aircraft, and staff management in adverse environments. Contact the sales team of Panasonic to know more about these rugged devices.