Volocopter Integrates Swiss-AS AMOS Software into Ecosystem

Swiss Avi­a­tion Soft­ware (Swiss-AS) and Volo­copter today signed a land­mark con­tract for its AMOS main­te­nance, repair, and over­haul soft­ware to man­age Volocopter’s eVTOL air­craft fleet world­wide.

This will ensure con­tin­ued fleet air­wor­thi­ness, offer air­craft reli­a­bil­i­ty mon­i­tor­ing and analy­sis, and act as an inter­face to Volocopter’s pro­pri­etary VoloIQ dig­i­tal oper­at­ing sys­tem.

Volo­copter is set to receive type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in 2024 for its VoloC­i­ty two-seater elec­tric air taxi for city use and will launch com­mer­cial ser­vices in Europe that meet the same safe­ty stan­dards that com­mer­cial air­lin­ers must sat­is­fy.

AMOS man­ages a vehicle’s con­fig­u­ra­tion trace­abil­i­ty through­out its life cycle, includ­ing com­po­nent design and pur­chase dates, instal­la­tion and replace­ment dates, and total oper­at­ing hours.

Ground tech­ni­cians will use AMOSmobile/EXEC, a touch-opti­mised mobile main­te­nance solu­tion for live data streams, while arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence will enable reli­a­bil­i­ty mon­i­tor­ing to improve fleet man­age­ment effi­cien­cy. Mean­while, Volocopter’s VoloIQ back­bone will mon­i­tor cus­tomer-fac­ing ser­vices like the book­ing process, as well as air­craft loca­tion and sta­tus, and bat­tery health.

Fabi­ano Fac­coli, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of Swiss Avi­a­tion Soft­ware, said: “Sign­ing with Volo­copter is con­fir­ma­tion that AMOS stands for inno­va­tion. We look for­ward to coop­er­at­ing with the UAM pio­neer Volo­copter, who is design­ing the cus­tomer jour­ney from A to Z while com­ply­ing with the high­est safe­ty stan­dards.”

Oliv­er Rein­hardt, chief risk and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion offi­cer of Volo­copter, said: “With Swiss-AS as a part­ner, Volo­copter is mak­ing strides to ensure that the main­te­nance of our VoloC­i­ty is man­aged and exe­cut­ed effi­cient­ly and fool­proof.

“The AMOS soft­ware has a proven track record in the avi­a­tion indus­try – giv­ing us con­fi­dence to obtain our Con­tin­u­ing Air­wor­thi­ness Man­age­ment Organ­i­sa­tion and Main­te­nance Organ­i­sa­tion Approval, which is essen­tial for our entry into ser­vice.”

AMOS in com­bi­na­tion with its mobile pack­age digi­tis­es and auto­mates main­te­nance process­es and con­nects with oth­er indus­try solu­tions via the data mes­sag­ing plat­form AMOScen­tral.

In April, Volo­copter announced that it would open a pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty in Bruch­sal with a new hangar to host its final assem­bly line and an air­field to con­duct flight tests, as well as qual­i­ty checks.

Volo­copter com­pletes pro­duc­tion set­up for elec­tric air taxis