Planning Aircraft Maintenance – A summary of the activity

This activity enables an aircraft planner to schedule/reschedule tasks/packages using a graphical user interface.

This activity provides the aircraft planner a summary of all the forecasted tasks and discrepancies from the maintenance program tasks planned for an aircraft. This vital information forms the primary input for planners to analyze/review maintenance planning prior to scheduling/rescheduling packages for an aircraft.

The start and end dates for the tasks are generated during forecast, based on the time limits defined in the maintenance program. Non-routine tasks (MELs, deferred maintenance items, log book entries) can also be scheduled for execution on the aircraft.

This activity enables you to accomplish the following as part of maintenance planning for an aircraft,

• Reschedule tasks

• Create package

• Assign tasks to package

• Reschedule package

• Add/delete tasks from package

• Release package

• Cancel package

• Assign package to slot

• Reschedule slot

• Print task cards

• Evaluate material and resource constraints for  tasks at an aircraft level

Specific Gantt chart s facilitate the above-mentioned tasks at ease in a graphical way.

• The Job Details provides aircraft and task level information. You can specify the search criteria to retrieve the aircraft and its constituent tasks for which you wish to schedule/reschedule maintenance activities. Tell me more

• The Package Details provides information on packages scheduled for the aircraft that you select in the Job Details. You can assign these packages to slots listed in the following sections. Tell me more

• The Maint. Exe. Slot Details displays the free slots to which you can assign packages for execution. Tell me more

• The Package-Slot Details displays the assigned slots together with the allocated packages, to which you can assign more packages for execution. Tell me more

Getting familiar with the pages inside

What you can do in this activity

Evaluating constraints for tasks scheduled on aircraft

You can retrieve aircraft for which maintenance activities are to be planned for a given date range. All the aircraft and pending tasks, on aircraft satisfying the search criteria, are displayed in the Job Details section.

The tasks scheduled start and end date can be modified by dragging over the bar. If the work unit is allocated to any execution document, the work unit bar cannot be dragged in the Gantt chart.

If there are any material / resource constraints for carrying out the task, they are also displayed.

Planning maintenance activities for aircraft

You can modify / view the maintenance activities scheduled for a particular aircraft. The flight schedules and pending tasks for the aircraft are displayed in the Package Details section.

The user can take necessary action on the work unit (Assign, Un-assign, Create and Release Package), and plan the maintenance activity.  

Prerequisites

• Definition of aircraft in the system

• Definition of maintenance tasks and task relationships with material and resource requirements

• Definition of aircraft maintenance programs and Component maintenance programs

• Creation of aircraft forecast and component forecast

• Availability of engineering documents

• Availability of discrepancies

•  Availability of execution documents  

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