Dashboard
The screen you land on after signing in - the state of the operation on one page, with a way into every module.
What it's for
The Dashboard is where A-Sync opens. It answers the four questions a maintenance day starts with - what is overdue, where the aircraft are, what is in work, and what expires next - and then gets out of the way: every card has a button into the module that owns its numbers, which is where you act on them.
Nothing is entered or changed here. The Dashboard only reads, so it is safe to leave open on a wall screen or a shared tablet.
Key concepts
Overdue means the same thing here as on the due list: the maintenance programme's own verdict on a requirement, which counts a requirement whose hours or cycles have run out as well as one past its calendar date.
Horizon - the four buckets of the Maintenance due chart do not overlap. An item due in five days is counted in 1–7 days and nowhere else, so the four columns add up to your whole forward workload rather than repeating it.
Flight hours are the hours posted against your aircraft, totalled per calendar month. A month with no postings shows as zero rather than being left out, so a quiet month cannot be mistaken for a busy one.
Active counts aircraft whose register status is Active. The bar beside it breaks the whole register down - parked, stored, leased out and phased out included.
Common tasks
Read the day from the dashboard
- Sign in. A-Sync opens on the Dashboard unless you followed a link somewhere else.
- Read the four numbers along the top: aircraft active, overdue items, open defects and packages in work.
- Work down the charts for the shape behind those numbers.
- Finish on the two lists at the bottom - Due soon and Deferrals expiring - which are the rows someone has to do something about this week.
Follow a number into its module
Every card has a button in its top-right corner. Choose it to open the module that owns the number with its full register, filters and actions:
| Card | Opens |
|---|---|
| Maintenance due, Due soon | The due list |
| Fleet status | The aircraft register |
| Flight hours | Reliability |
| Work in progress | Planning |
| Deferrals expiring | The defect board |
Check what expires this week
- Read the Deferrals expiring card. Active MEL and CDL deferrals are listed soonest first.
- The badge on the right is the time left, coloured by how little of it there is; the date under it is the expiry itself.
- Choose Defects to open the defect board, where a deferral can be rectified or - where the category allows it - extended.
A quiet dashboard is a good dashboard
Cards with nothing to show say so rather than drawing an empty chart. On a new organisation the whole page reads that way until the register, the maintenance programme and the first work packages exist.
Role notes
| Role | What it can do here |
|---|---|
| Every staff role | The whole page. Everything on it is operational data that every staff role can already read, so the Dashboard looks the same for a planner and a storekeeper |
| Flight crew | Crew do not hold the fleet, compliance and planning read permissions the Dashboard is built from, so a crew-only account opens on the techlog instead |
No money appears on the Dashboard. Quotations, invoices and receivables live in Billing, behind the commercial permissions.
Related modules
- Compliance owns the due list the maintenance-due chart and the due-soon list are drawn from.
- Fleet owns the register behind the fleet-status bar and the utilisation behind the flight-hours chart.
- Planning owns the work packages counted as in progress.
- Execution owns the defects and deferrals.
- Reliability is where the utilisation trend continues into dispatch reliability and removal rates.