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34 MCI INFO TECHNOLOGY
Kansas City Int’l Test Drives Asset
Management Software
in Maintenance Facility
BY KRISTIN VANDERHEY SHAW
FACTS &FIGURES
Project: Asset Management Program
Location: Kansas City Int’l Airport
Architecture & Design: Burns & McDonnell
Maximo Implementation & Data Integration:
Electronic Data Inc.
Scheduled Completion: 1st quarter 2019
Key Benefits: Monitor & manage full lifecycle of
enterprise assets, such as facilities, communications,
transportation, production & infrastructure
Of Note: Airport is deploying software in maintenance
facility to ready for future deployment in new terminal
In November 2017, local residents
voted in favor of building a new
terminal at Kansas City International
Airport (MCI), with a resounding 75% saying
yes to the project. The terminal is scheduled
to open at the end of 2023 on the site of the
now-closed Terminal A. In the interim, the
airport is deploying new asset management
software in a recently completed maintenance
facility, so the technology will be ready to use
in the new terminal when it is built.
Ian Redhead, deputy
director of the Kansas
City Missouri Aviation
Department, gathered
information about the
value of such systems
from colleagues at
various conferences. He
IAN REDHEAD
liked the idea of having
the ability to monitor and manage the full
lifecycle of MCI’s enterprise assets, such as
facilities, communications, transportation,
production and infrastructure. As the plan
for a new maintenance facility took shape,
Redhead seized the opportunity to pilot an
asset management program on a smaller
scale before using it at the new terminal.
Redhead asked members of the Airports
Council International – North America,
Operations and Technical Affairs Committee
what they were using for asset management
software, and the answer was Maximo, an
enterprise-level computerized maintenance
management system from IBM. With the
power of the Internet of Things behind
it, Maximo provides users with real-time
visibility of data on people, places and things
that directly communicate with the software.
That struck a chord with Redhead.
Leading-edge Initiative
“It’s not the easiest software package to use,
but it has the most horsepower,” reports
Redhead. And horsepower is exactly what
the airport needed, especially as it began
to unravel all the data it would need for a
successful software integration.
When designing projects, airports rely on
their partners to create and present plans
via BIM (Building Information Modeling),
an intelligent 3D model-based process
that helps architecture, engineering and
construction companies efficiently plan,
design, construct and manage buildings and
infrastructure. Redhead sought a consultant
willing to work with the airport to not only
use Maximo, but to integrate Revit BIM
software as well. Redhead discovered that
although Revit has been used at airports for
years, most had not been using it for this
purpose.
March | April 2019
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