Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Lufthansa Industry Solutions is a German IT services and consulting company. For aviation, it makes Volabase, a digital documentation system for airline flight and ground operations.

Air traffic documentation has grown in size and complexity. Pilots, cabin crew and ground crew need reliable, current information at all times. Airlines must keep manuals, training documents and internal guidelines up to date and share them with the right crews. They must also apply changes from aircraft makers on time and follow the rules of international flight safety authorities. Volabase was built to help with this work.

Volabase has four applications. The first is Volabase CMS, an XML-based content management system. It imports, edits and publishes technical documents, and it replaces manual work in Excel, Word and PDF files. It can import manufacturer manuals, including the Airbus XML format, and compare them with the airline's own revisions. It manages variants by aircraft type, tracks revisions and publishes to PDF, XML and HTML. It can also create compliance reports for EASA and IOSA audits, and pass CDL and MEL data to AMOS.

The second is Volabase Library, a media library that sends current documents to the right user groups. The third is Volabase Viewer, which lets crews read documents in a web browser or on iOS devices, online or offline. It offers full text search, day and night modes and automatic updates, and it can run as an electronic flight bag app. The fourth is Volabase Workflow, a tool for managing the document process.

The system can handle several fleets and air operator certificates in one place. The company says this cuts the effort of maintaining and distributing documents, lowers the risk of compliance breaches and reduces repeated data.

Outside this product, the company works in IT security, artificial intelligence, technology consulting, supply chain and logistics, and mobile solutions. One aviation project digitised the APU repair process at Lufthansa Technik, where findings are captured in an app and turned into reports.

Services

• Volabase CMS
• Volabase Library
• Volabase Viewer
• Volabase Workflow
• Aviation documentation
• Technology consulting
• IT security consulting
• Artificial intelligence
• Mobile solutions
• Supply chain and logistics IT