The Indian Air Force (IAF) has set a ambitiuos target of December 2017 as deadline for the completion of its mammoth electronics maintenance management system (e-MMS) project that covers 12 verticals including combat fleet, weapons and radar systems, across 170 air force sites in the country.
The Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha told journalists today that the timeline is challenging considering that IAF is laready running behind schedule in this work. He said the Indian Air Force should work in tandem with its technology partner Wipro in order to meet the deadline.
The project is aimed at electronically monitoring and automating the maintenance and management of IAF’s fleet, weapons and other critical systems. It involves setting up of a web-based, enterprise wide, online MMS.
Raha told this in Pune where he had come to inaugurate the newly integrated system for the Sukhois as part of the project. Wipro’s vice chairman TK Kurien was also there to grace the ocassion.
The e-MMS project is suppose to IAF’s efficiency and maintenance activities which will show in terms of saving of man hours, better management of the systems so that the aircraft, weapon platform and weapon system availability improves and everybody up the chain can monitor these systems.
By Atanu Kumar Das
