Collaborative Decision Making (CDM)
What is CDM?
Experts assume that world-wide air traffic will double in the next five to ten years. Airports will meet their operational limits , further expansions are often difficult to be achieved. Therefore all available capacity reserves must be utilized more intensively. This requires a close co-operation of all partners in the ground handling at the airport.
To support this co-operation Eurocontrol together with Airports Council International (ACI) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) has developed the concept of Collaborative Decision Making (CDM), which shall harmonize the IT-processes in the airport business.
What is provided by SKY-CDM?
Already the base components of the SKY-Base AODB together with the various communication options of SKY Connect provide the airport with an efficient tool for the implementation of CDM projects with his local partners.
These options are extended by SKY-CDM, which upgrades SKY-Base to a first-level CDM application by a sophisticated process manageme
- All substantial phases of the aircraft handling processes may be subject to a precisely timed monitoring
- Status information and alarm procedures ensure the common situational awareness of all all concerned parties
- Web interfaces present the information directly to the user - on mobile devices as well on CUTE terminals
SKY-CDM is not limited on the linear turnaround process described in the standard. It supports as well the parallel processes of airplane handling like
- boarding
- cleaning or
- catering
and so integrates the handling agent even closer into the common decision-making processes.
What are the Benefits of SKY-CDM?
Improvement of the planning process by
- flexible, planning and monitoring of the handling processes to the minute
- optimized resource usage and improved punctuality of air traffic
- monitoring of exceptions
- calculation of the effect of process delays
control of service level agreements
- logging of all events and alarms
- documentation of requests for optional handling services
Flexible data access
- Access through standard browser even on CUTE PCs
- Precise data entry through mobile devices
