Reporting and closing work order

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In this page, you can select the work order to report the execution details and change the status of the work order. Tell me more.

The “Report & Close Work Order” page appears.

The system displays the following field:

Date & Time Format

The format in which the date and time fields must be entered. This format is displayed from the "User Preferences" business component based on the login user ID. In case the format is not defined, the system displays the date and time format from the “Enterprise Modeling” business component by default.

Adv. Search ID

Use the drop-down list box to select the search ID. The system displays the work orders based on the search criteria specified for the search ID. Leave this field blank if you do not wish to retrieve the work order details based on the search ID. The system leaves the field blank by default.

Job Type

Use the drop-down list box to select the type of the job to be retrieved, which could be “Aircraft”, “On-Wing” or “Component Removal”. The system leaves the field blank by default.

Visit Package #

The visit package number for which the work orders details must be retrieved (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using “*” character. The system displays all the work orders that are associated to the visit package whose number are similar to the number entered here.

Status

Use the drop-down list box to select the status of the work order to be retrieved, which could be “Scheduled”, “In-Progress”, “Completed” or “Reversed”. The system retrieves the work orders that are of the status specified here. Leave this field blank if you wish to retrieve the work order details irrespective of the status. The system leaves the field blank by default.

Work Order #

The number identifying the work order (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using “*” character. The system displays the work orders whose numbers are similar to the number specified here.

Work Order Desc

The textual description of the work order (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the description in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the work orders whose description is similar to the description entered here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the description.

Work Center #

Use the drop-down list box to select the work center for which the work order details are to be retrieved. The system retrieves the work orders that are associated to the work center selected here. Leave this field blank if you wish to retrieve the work order details irrespective of the work center. The system defaults work center associated to the logged in user.

Update Option

Use the drop-down list box to select the update option. The system displays the following:

 
  • Work Order – Select this option to retrieve the work order details.

 
  • Task - Select this option to retrieve the task details.

 

The system sets the field to “Task” by default.

ATA #

Use the drop-down list box to select the ATA chapter associated to the aircraft. The system lists all the active ATA chapters created in the “Create ATA Chapter” activity of the “Aircraft” business component. The system retrieves all the work orders associated to the ATA number selected here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the ATA number.

Aircraft Reg #

The registration number identifying the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 30). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the work orders that refer to the aircraft registration number similar to the number entered here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the aircraft registration number.

Note: The system considers only those aircraft for which the record status is not “Frozen”.

Task Category

Use the drop-down list box to select the task category. The system lists all the quick codes of type “Task Category” as defined in the “Create Quick Codes” activity of the “Maintenance Task” business component. The system retrieves all the tasks belonging to the category selected here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the tasks irrespective of the category.

Task Description

The textual description of the task (Alphanumeric, 150). You can enter the description in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the tasks whose description is similar to the description entered here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the tasks irrespective of the description.

Customer #

The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft. (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the number in full, or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the work orders that refer to the aircraft whose owning agency number matches with the customer number entered here.

Customer Name

The name of the customer owning the aircraft. (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the name in full, or specify it partially using the "*" character. The system retrieves all the work orders that refer to the aircraft whose owning agency name matches with the customer name entered here.

Note: The system retrieves the work order or task details based on the filter criteria and the “Update Option” selected.

Change Status To

Use the drop-down list box to modify the status of the work order. The system displays the following options: “Scheduled”, “In-Progress”, “Completed”,"Cancelled", “Pre-Closed” and “Closed”. The system displays “Closed” by default.

Note: Ensure that the timesheet status for the work reported against the tasks in the work order is “Authorized” or “Not Required”, if the “Change Status To” is set to “Closed” or “Pre-Closed”.

Note: Ensure that no employee is assigned to any task belonging to the work order, if the status of the work order is changed to “Completed”, “Closed” or “Pre-Closed”.

If the “Change Status To” field is set other than “Cancelled” or “Pre-Closed”, the system ensures the following:

For the aircraft, if the engagement mode is set to “Full Maintenance” and the replacement type is set to “Remove Only”, then all the component removal transactions associated to the work order must be in “Confirmed Removal” status.

Similarly, for the aircraft, if the engagement mode is set to “Full Maintenance” and the replacement type is set to “Replacement”, “Restoration” or “Attach Only”, then all the component removal transactions associated to the work order must be in “Confirmed Replacement” status.

The user cannot cancel the Hanger Work Order, if (i) the Hanger Work Order # have reference in the “Reference Document #” in a Purchase Order, (ii) the Purchase Order Type is “Adhoc” or “Service” and (ii) the line item status is not “Short Closed” or “Cancelled”.

The user cannot cancel the Task, if (i) the Hanger Work Order, Task and Sequence have reference in the “Reference Document #”, Task and Sequence in a Purchase Order, (ii) the Purchase Order Type is “Adhoc” or “Service” and (iii) the line item status is not “Short Closed” or “Cancelled”.

Modify “In-Progress” to “Schedule” status

You can modify the status from “In-Progress” to “Schedule” only when the work order or task satisfies the following conditions:

Modify “Completed” to “In-Progress” status

You can modify the status from “Completed” to “In-Progress” only when the work order or task satisfies the following conditions:

Modify the status to “Completed”

You can modify the status to “Completed” only when the work order or task satisfies the following conditions:

If all the tasks associated to the work order are set to “Completed” status, the system automatically updates the status of the work order to “Completed”.

Note: You cannot modify the status to “Completed”, if an employee has logged on to a particular task in the work order.

Modify the status to “Closed”

You can modify the status of the work order to “Closed” only when the work order or task satisfies the following conditions:

The system updates the following:

  1. Cancelled – If the material request is in “Draft” or “Fresh” status.

  2. Short Closed – If the material request is in “Authorized” status.

Note: If there are issue documents in “Fresh” or “Draft” status for the short closed material request, the system updates the status of those documents to “Cancelled”.

The following schedule details are updated for the aircraft or component based on the job type associated to the work order:

Note: The system updates the date-based and usage-based schedule values even for unforecasted work units.

The system updates the status of the discrepancies associated to the work order in the “Discrepancy Processing” business component based on the following conditions:

Note: If the “Closing of Parent WO before closing Child WOs” option is set to “Not Allowed” in the “Set Options” activity, then the system ensures that each child work order of the work order is in “Closed”, “Pre-Closed” or “Cancelled” status.

Note: The system updates the status of the pending tasks as 'Performed', in the “Central Planning” business component.

You cannot modify the status to “Closed”,

  1. if an employee has logged on to a particular task in the work order or

  2. If the work order is in deferred status.

Modify the status to “Pre-Closed”

You can modify the status to “Pre-Closed” only when the work order or task satisfies the following conditions:

Note: You cannot modify the status to “Pre-Closed”, if an employee has logged on to a particular task in the work order.

  1. Cancelled – If the material request is in “Draft” or “Fresh” status.

  2. Short Closed – If the material request is in “Authorized” status.

Note: If there are issue documents in “Fresh” or “Draft” status for the short closed material request, the system updates the status of those documents to “Cancelled”.

Modify the status to “Cancelled”

You can cancel the work order only if:

Note: If the cancelled work order has mandatory work units, then the system moves all those work units to the pending tray for processing.

The system performs the following:

  1. Cancelled – If the material request is in “Draft” or “Fresh” status.

  2. Short Closed – If the material request is in “Authorized” status.

Note: If there are issue documents in “Fresh” or “Draft” status for the short closed material request, the system updates the status of those documents to “Cancelled”.

Default Date

The actual start date or end date of the work order or task (Date format). The system displays the current system date by default.

Default As

Use the drop-down list box to select the whether the date has to be defaulted for the “Actual Start Date” or “Actual End Date”. Leave this field blank if you do not wish to specify the default date details. You have to compulsorily select a value in this field if the “Default Date” field is entered.

Note: If the start date or end date fields are left blank in the multiline, the system sets the “Default Dates”, in the respective multiline columns. This type of updating is done, when several work orders in the multiline have the same start date or end date.

The system displays the following in the “Work Details” multiline:

Work Order #

The work order number retrieved by the system.

Status

The status of the work order.

Task #

The task associated to the work order.

Note: If the work order status is “Reversed”, you can modify only the “Misc. Cost” field.

% Completed

The percentage of work completed in the work order or task (Integer). The value entered in this field must be positive.

  • If the “Change Status To” field is set to “Scheduled”, ensure that this field is left blank.

  • If the “Change Status To” field is set to “In-progress”, ensure that the value entered in this field is between 0% and 99%.

Note: The system sets the field to “100%”, if the “Change Status To” field is set to “Completed” or “Closed”.

The system displays the following:

Sch. Start Date

The planned start date of the work order or task.

Sch. End Date

The planned end date of the work order or task.

Time Unit

The unit of measurement for the estimated time, which could be “Minutes”, “Hours” or “Days”.

Est. Elapsed Time

The estimated time spent for the work order or task.

Actual Elapsed Time

The actual time spent, in hours, days, or minutes, on the task or work order (Decimal). The value entered in this field must be positive.

Note: The actual elapsed time must be equal to the difference between the actual start date and time and the actual end date and time. If you leave this field blank, the system automatically calculates the elapsed time.

Actual Start Date

The actual start date of the work order or the task in the specified date format (Date Format).

Ensure that the date entered in this field is not later than the current server date, and earlier than the earliest start date for the work order/task.

Note: If you leave this field blank and the “Start Time” field is entered, the system displays the schedule start date on clicking the “Record Work Execution” pushbutton.

Start Time

The actual start time of the work order or the task (Time Format).

Note: The actual start date and time must be later than the date and time on which the actuals was initially reported.

The system automatically calculates the actual start date and time if “Actual Elapsed Time”, “Actual End Date” and “End Time” fields are entered.

Actual End Date

The actual end date of the work order or the task in the specified date format (Date Format).

Ensure that the date entered in this field is not later than the current server date, and not earlier than the earliest end date for the work order/task.

End Time

The actual end time of the work order or the task (Time Format).

Note: The system automatically calculates the actual end date and time if “Actual Elapsed Time”, “Actual Start Date” and “Start Time” fields are entered.

You cannot modify the actual start date and end date for the work order in “Reversed” status, once the work details are recorded.

The system displays the following:

Currency

The currency in which the cost is displayed.

Misc. Cost

The miscellaneous cost incurred for executing the work order or task (Decimal). Ensure that the number entered here is positive.

The system displays the following:

Last Updated Date

The date on which the actual details were last reported for the task or work order.

Delay Reported ?

Indicates whether any work delays are reported for the work order or task. The system displays either “Yes” or “No”.

Execution Comments

Any additional remarks or comments regarding the execution of the task or work order (Alphanumeric, 255).

 

The system displays the following fields:

Previous Execution Comments

Any previous comments existing for execution of the task or work order.

Exec. Comments Recorded By

The code identifying the employee who entered the previous execution comments.

Note: The system retrieves these details from the Comments History.

  • Enter the following field:

Cancellation / Pre-Close Comments

Any additional remarks or comments regarding the cancellation or pre-closing of the task or work order (Alphanumeric, 255).

The system displays the following:

Revision #

The revision number of the task.

Task Description

The textual description of the task.

Work Order Description

The textual description of the work order.

Customer #

The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft.

Customer Name

The name of the customer owning the aircraft.

Note: The "Customer #" and "Customer Name" fields are applicable only when the aircraft is not self-owned and the customer details are recorded in the system.

Note: At least one row must be entered in the multiline, if the status of the work order or task is changed to “Completed”, “Pre-Closed” or “Closed”.

Note: On closing a work order with EO related work units, ensure that the model/part/aircraft/component configuration associated to the work order, is in the “Active” status.

On closing the work order, the system performs the following:

a) “Overhauled”, if the maintenance type is”Overhaul”;

b) “Serviceable”, if the maintenance type is “Repair”, “Inspection” or “Others.

Note: The system will not update the aircraft condition to “Under Maintenance”, if the “Exec Phase” is “Preparatory” for the task associated with the aircraft

On completion of a task (Execution Status = “Completed”):

To proceed, carry out the following

Note: Ensure that the work order selected is not in “Closed” status.

Note: This page can be invoked only if the user has access rights for modifying the labor hours reported against the work orders.

Refer to “Flight Log” Online Help for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reporting and closing work order -  An overview

Report & Close Work Order - A summary of the activity

In this page, you can select the work order to report the execution details and change the status of the work order. You can search for work orders using the predefined search ID, job type, visit package number, aircraft registration number, work order, status or work center. You can also specify whether the execution information has to be updated for the work order or task. Based on the search criteria specified, the system retrieves the work order and the task details.

You can select the work order and update information such as percentage of work completed, actual duration of time spent, start and end date and time, miscellaneous costs and comments for a task or a work order. You can also report the same details at the task level in this page.

You can also change the status of work orders in bulk in this page.