Bits and Bytes at your command
Modern airports are like beehives, with passengers, aircraft, baggage, cargo
as well as visitors passing through at unparalleled numbers, all expecting
punctual service at highest quality levels.
Times have changed since the more leisurely area of ocean-liner transportation
less than a century ago: Today’s modern travelers and goods are constantly in a
hurry. Tons of cargo and millions of passengers are flying around the globe
every day, and all of them are on a tight schedule. This makes even delays of
less than an hour virtually unacceptable, especially on transfer routes.
It goes without saying that such complexity and time-criticality cannot be
managed anymore with pen, paper and a telephone. Probably more than any industry
in the world, modern aviation relies on timely and accurate processing and
transmission of information. On airports crucial decisions have to be made
within seconds based purely on information gathered elsewhere rather than
obtained personally.
Every day, air travelers experience anew how even the longest distances
shrink to a few hour’s journey. This miracle is made possible by the software
systems and combined hardware / software / service solutions that are essential
to aviation. These solutions need to be carefully designed, with ease, accuracy
and cost-efficiency in mind, to support the immense number of complex background
processes that a traveler can hardly imagine.
Siemens is your supplier of choice for such intelligent and efficient
software systems, supporting specific aviation processes with the same
efficiency and ease as general back-office processes. The well-established
Siemens solutions generate substantial user benefits regarding costs, speed and
quality of services.
The Siemens portfolio includes for example the
Universal
Flight Information System (UFIS) with AODB as its core, and a multitude of
associated world-class airport modules; or, a comprehensive
Baggage
Management Solution including Consulting offerings, Baggage IT Integration
and decision support modules.
