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Success Story -
TIMCO
TIMCO's
Systems On Course to Accommodate Growth
As a company
specializing in major maintenance checks
on widebody jets for commercial airlines,
Triad International Maintenance Corporation
(TIMCO) faces substantial challenges
in order to consistently meet a barrage
of regulatory and compliance requirements.
Add to that an acquisition by another
company with two of its own maintenance,
repair and overhaul sites, plans to
start up a fourth site and acquire a
fifth site, and Y2K compliance requirements
and you'd be reaching for your oxygen
mask as well.
With time ticking, TIMCO
knew it needed a copilot on board to
help its business take flight into the
new millennium. Specifically, TIMCO
needed a review of its Y2K work to date,
an action plan to complete it within
30 to 60 days, the deployment of a system
at its new start-up company that was
business and Y2K-compliant, and a systems
strategy for its other sites as well.
"We were blunt about the
difficulty of the challenge, but BravePoint
took it on," said Bill Baker, TIMCO's
Vice President of Information Services.
"Within 48 hours, BravePoint demonstrated
to us how they would achieve these objectives.
Although the timeframe was short and
the challenges great, BravePoint had
in place a method to solve customer
business problems and react to customer
changes. Throughout the project, BravePoint
was truly interested in making sure
we were successful. I heard that at
all levels. By the time the project
was finished, we hated to see them go."
Ready for Take
Off
Following a strategic decision
to take the original TIMCO location's
systems and replicate them throughout
the rest of the growing enterprise,
BravePoint joined forces with TIMCO's
programmers to write the new code, populate
the database, and evolve TIMCO's new
MAJIC (Maintenance, Aircraft, Job, Inventory
and Control) system. BravePoint spearheaded
the monumental task of transitioning
all systems from the other locations---including
database information, aircraft histories,
inventories, and financial data---into
the MAJIC system.
With BravePoint's assistance,
TIMCO greeted the new year with a solid
systems solution with which it was proficient
and self-reliant. What's more, as a
publicly held company, TIMCO could now
meet the requirements of independent
auditors as well as those of its stockholders.
Finally, TIMCO's systems are easily
scalable to accommodate any future location.
Now, that's a comfortable cruising altitude.
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