SeekSoft™ TTMS helps you mitigate risk and strengthens operational compliance with ease of monitoring — with data on your fingertips. Every tool tagged, every issue and return logged, and every bay proven clear before the aircraft moves.
SeekSoft™ TTMS helps you mitigate risk and strengthens operational compliance with ease of monitoring — with data on your fingertips. Every tool tagged, every issue and return logged, and every bay proven clear before the aircraft moves.
Together they replace shadow boards, paper issue registers and end-of-shift counts with a live record of what was taken, by whom, against which work order, and whether it came back — the evidence base that AS9146, NAS 412, AS9100D, DGCA CAR 145 and EASA Part-145 tool control expectations are audited against.
The failures that put tools inside aircraft are rarely technical. They are gaps in custody, timing and evidence — and they are systematically eliminated.
Manual counts and shadow-board glances fail under AOG pressure, night-shift fatigue and rotating crews — and one missed item can write off an engine.
Paper issue registers cannot prove who held which tool, on which work order, at which time — exactly what an incident investigation or audit demands.
Tools move between bays, shifts and contractors undocumented. The gap only surfaces at close-out, when the aircraft is already on the critical path.
An out-of-calibration instrument reaching the aircraft triggers rework, recall of every job it touched, and an airworthiness finding that is expensive to close.
Unreturned, borrowed and forgotten tooling inflates replacement capex, delays work packages and hides the true size of the calibrated tool pool.
FOD programme records, tool registers and calibration certificates are rebuilt manually before every customer, regulator or OEM surveillance audit.
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RFID smart cabinets, drawers and carts read their own contents continuously. A technician badges in, takes what the job needs and walks away — issue and return are recorded automatically against the individual, the work order and the aircraft tail number, with no queue at the counter and no register to sign.
Every spanner, socket, torque wrench, borescope, jig and ground support fixture carries a rugged on-metal UHF tag matched to its form factor — from 2.5 mm embedded dots for sockets to high-memory nameplates for GSE. Tags are specified against EPC Gen2 / ISO 18000-6C and aerospace practice under ATA Spec 2000 Chapter 9-5 and SAE AS5678, survive solvents, vibration and heat, and stay readable for the working life of the tool.
Fixed read portals at bay boundaries, dock entries and airside doors detect every tagged item crossing in or out. Overhead and zone readers maintain a live picture of what is near the aircraft, raise dwell-time alerts on tools that have stayed too long in a restricted area, and hold the release of a bay until the zone reads clear.
Tool custody is bound to the work order, not just to the person. At close-out, a single handheld sweep or cabinet return reconciles the issued kit against what has come back — and the sign-off cannot be completed while an item is outstanding. The result is a timestamped, tamper-evident close-out record attached to the task card.
Calibration status lives on the tool record, not in a spreadsheet. SeekSoft TTMS tracks certificates, intervals and traceability for every measuring and torque instrument, escalates ahead of the due date, and physically prevents an overdue item from being issued. If an instrument is later found out of tolerance, the system lists every work order and aircraft it touched since its last valid calibration.
A FOD prevention programme is judged on evidence. SeekSoft TTMS produces it continuously: tool accountability records, FOD-sensitive area controls, incident and near-miss logs, corrective actions, training acknowledgements and trend measurement — mapped to AS9146 programme elements, NAS 412 practices, AS9100D controls and the tool control expectations of DGCA CAR 145 and EASA Part-145.A.40.
Tools are only part of the risk. Fasteners, pins, lockwire, blanking caps, protective covers, rags and torch batteries all become FOD. Kitted trays are issued and returned as counted sets against the bill of material, so shortfalls surface at the tray — before anyone closes a panel.
SeekSoft™ middleware sits between the reader estate and the enterprise, normalising millions of raw reads into meaningful tool events before they reach your systems of record. It integrates with SAP, Oracle, AMOS, Ramco, Maximo and in-house M&E systems, and it runs on-premise, at the edge, or fully air-gapped inside a defence facility with no external dependency.
Accountability data becomes management information. Dashboards show open tool exposure by bay, shift and work centre, exception trends against a measured baseline, and the recurring behaviours that drive risk — so quality and operations leadership can act on patterns rather than react to incidents. Data is on your fingertips, from the hangar floor terminal to the board pack.
Tool control risk changes shape by work environment. Each scenario below is configured differently — same platform, different controls.
Night turnarounds, dispersed operating bases and rotating crews. Portal-controlled flight-line access plus a handheld sweep before every engine ground run, so no unaccounted item is present when the aircraft is powered.
The highest-consequence environment in any MRO. Tools and fixtures are accounted for at each module stage, and the test cell cannot be armed until the cell reads clear of tagged items.
Confined tail booms, gearbox decks and rotor heads where a dropped tool is hard to see and harder to retrieve. Kit-level issue, dwell alerts and directed search shorten recovery from hours to minutes.
ESD-controlled benches, small precision tooling and shared calibrated instruments. Bench-level readers keep bay stock honest and stop uncalibrated instruments from reaching a serviceable tag release.
Abrasives, backing plates, drill bits and clecos that migrate into structure. Counted kits and tray reconciliation catch shortfalls before a panel is closed or a surface is sealed.
Fly-away kits issued as sealed, verified sets, reconciled on return at the home base. Works fully offline at the remote site and synchronises when connectivity returns.
Core capabilities built into every deployment.
Every physical tool carries a unique, permanent identity linked to its history, owner, kit and calibration record.
Hundreds of tags read per second without line of sight, so accountability never slows the technician down.
Work orders cannot be signed off and bays cannot be released while a tool or kit item remains unaccounted for.
Due-date escalation, automatic quarantine of overdue instruments and one-click recall scoping by affected work order.
Full function inside secured defence estates with no internet dependency; edge buffering keeps hangars running through network loss.
Person, work order, aircraft, zone and timestamp on every movement — a defensible record for audits and investigations.
Evidence packs mapped to AS9146, NAS 412, AS9100D and CAR 145 tool control expectations, exported on demand.
REST and message-based interfaces into ERP, M&E, EAM, QMS and identity systems, with a documented common data model.
RFID tool tracking changes how the maintenance process runs, not just what it records. The table below contrasts a conventional tool control process with a SeekSoft TTMS-enabled one.
| Process Step | Conventional Tool Control | With SeekSoft TTMS |
|---|---|---|
| Shift start & tool issue | Queue at the crib, manual register entry, kit completeness assumed | Badge-and-go issue in seconds, kit verified automatically against the work order |
| Locating a tool in use | 30–60 minutes lost per work order walking bays and asking crews | Last-known zone on screen, directed handheld search to the item |
| Movement into FOD-critical zones | Unrecorded; relies on discipline and line of sight | Portal-logged crossings with dwell-time alerts on restricted areas |
| Shift handover | Verbal handover; gaps surface later as missing tools | Open custody transfers explicitly, with outstanding items listed by job |
| Job close-out & sign-off | Manual count under time pressure; sign-off possible with a gap | Automatic reconciliation; sign-off interlocked until every item is accounted for |
| Calibration control | Spreadsheet reminders; overdue instruments can still be picked up | Escalation before due date, automatic quarantine, instant recall scoping |
| FOD incident investigation | Reconstructed from memory and paper, days after the event | Timestamped custody trail retrieved in minutes, with root-cause context |
| Audit & surveillance | Evidence pack assembled by hand before each audit | Standing, exportable evidence mapped to AS9146 / NAS 412 programme elements |
Wherever a loose article can damage a high-value asset or endanger people, the same accountability discipline applies.
A layered architecture that starts at the tool and ends with the evidence — each layer engineered and integrated by AOPL.
SeekSoft™ TTMS helps you mitigate risk and strengthens operational compliance with ease of monitoring — with data on your fingertips. Start with one hangar, one engine shop or one workshop, prove the baseline, then scale.
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