Joby Aviation chooses IFS Cloud for its maintenance processes of its eVTOL aircraft

Joby Avi­a­tion has select­ed the IFS Cloud for Avi­a­tion Main­te­nance solu­tion for its eVTOL air­craft main­te­nance process­es.

IFS devel­ops and deliv­ers cloud enter­prise soft­ware for com­pa­nies around the world which man­u­fac­ture and dis­trib­ute goods, build and main­tain assets and man­age ser­vice-focused oper­a­tions.

As part of this agree­ment, IFS Cloud for Avi­a­tion Main­te­nance will pro­vide Joby with an advanced end-to-end main­te­nance soft­ware solu­tion for its eVTOL air­craft across key func­tion­al areas. These include engi­neer­ing, records man­age­ment, oper­a­tions, and plan­ning, to sup­port its glob­al expan­sion plan and ensure the high­est stan­dards of safe­ty and effi­cien­cy.

Joby joins the many world-lead­ing air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers, oper­a­tors and main­tain­ers which have select­ed IFS, includ­ing South­west Air­lines, Air France-KLM Group, Qan­tas, Saab and BAE Sys­tems.

Matthew Lykins, Air­craft Main­te­nance Lead at Joby Avi­a­tion, said: “At Joby, we are at the fore­front of rev­o­lu­tion­is­ing trav­el with our eVTOL air­craft. Ensur­ing the seam­less oper­a­tion and main­te­nance of these air­craft through­out their life­cy­cle requires an equal­ly inno­v­a­tive soft­ware solu­tion.

“That’s why we have cho­sen IFS as our trust­ed part­ner. The IFS solu­tion offers a robust soft­ware foun­da­tion that can evolve and adapt to meet our grow­ing needs, from the ini­tial test­ing and reg­u­la­to­ry approval phas­es, to the full-scale oper­a­tions of Joby air­craft.”

Joby con­tin­ues to lead the way on the devel­op­ment of eVTOL air­craft, launch­ing pro­duc­tion in June 2023 and recent­ly com­plet­ing a series of pilot­ed test flights, includ­ing an exhi­bi­tion flight in New York City.

Joby’s all-elec­tric air­craft has a max­i­mum range of 100 miles and can car­ry a pilot and four pas­sen­gers, giv­ing it unpar­al­leled flex­i­bil­i­ty to serve com­mu­ni­ties world­wide. Joby plans to start com­mer­cial oper­a­tions in 2025, as it con­tin­ues its pro­gres­sion from pro­to­type to a ful­ly oper­a­tional fleet.

As part of its ambi­tious growth plans, the com­pa­ny recent­ly announced plans to con­struct a scaled man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Day­ton, Ohio.

The estab­lish­ment of the company’s ground-break­ing new facil­i­ty, which will be capa­ble of pro­duc­ing up to 500 eVTOL air­craft per year, rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in the field of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, and will lead to the cre­ation of up to 2,000 high-qual­i­ty man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs.

Joby also plans to expand its exist­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia, where air­craft pro­duc­tion was launched last year.

Scott Helmer, Pres­i­dent, Aero­space and Defence at IFS, added: “We are thrilled to be work­ing with Joby to man­age the oper­a­tion and main­te­nance of one of the world’s most advanced air vehi­cles. IFS has been close­ly track­ing the growth in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty for some time, and the avi­a­tion indus­try-speci­fici­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty of IFS Cloud makes us a per­fect fit for organ­i­sa­tions that are shap­ing the future of flight.”