Releasing visit package

In this page, you can select a visit package to be released.  Tell me more

• Select the “Release Visit Package” link under the “Visit Package” business component.

The “Release Visit Package” page appears.

The system displays the following field:

• Enter the following filter criteria in the “Search Criteria” group box to search for a visit package. Data entry in the following fields is optional:

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.

• Click the “Search” push button to retrieve the visit package details.

Note: If the “Visit Package Approval” is set to “Yes” in the “Set Options” activity, the system retrieves only “Approved” visit packages. Otherwise, the system retrieves all the confirmed visit packages whose approval status is “Approval Not Required”.

Note: The system retrieves only those visit packages for which the aircraft is not in “Frozen” record status.

The system displays the following in the “Search Results” multiline based on the filter criteria entered:

Note: Ensure that atleast one visit package is selected in the multiline.

• Enter the following in the “Work Order Generation Details” group box:

Note: If work order gets generated for a standard procedure, then standard procedure description would be copied as the work order description.

Note: If work order gets generated for each task when the option is set as "For Each Task" in Set Work Order Generation Option, then task description would be copied as the Work Order Description.

Note: In the “Set Work Order Generation Option” activity, when the option is set as "For Group of Tasks" in “Create Work Order” combo and the “Related Task Wise” option alone is checked in the ‘Task Grouping Options’, and in the Visit Package if all the Work Units have “Parent Task #”, then on generation of work order the parent task description will be copied as the work order description.

Note : In the “Set Work Order Generation Option” activity, when the option is set as "For Group of Tasks" in “Create Work Order” combo, and in the Visit Package if only one Work Unit exists, then on generation of work order the task description will be copied as the work order description.

• Check the box in the “Select” column of the multiline to mark the visit package for release or to partly release or to modify its details.

Note: You cannot release a visit package, with work units having the deferment request status as "Pending Deferment".

To re-schedule the visit package before release

• Select the “Plan Visit Package” link, to re-schedule the visit package before release.

Refer to the topic “Planning visit package information – An overview” for more details.

To partly release the visit package

• Select the “Selective Release of Visit Package” link at the bottom of the page to partly release the work units in the visit package.

To view the error log

• Select the “View Error Log” link at the bottom of the page to view error log details

To release visit package

• Click the “Release Visit Package” push button to release the visit package for execution.

The system ensures that the CAPEX Proposal # exists for the visit package of expense type “Capital”.

The system ensures that the capital expense for each work unit of the visit package, which is the sum of material cost, material cost (capital), labour cost, facilities cost and miscellaneous cost (if any) associated with the work unit is less than the proposal amount, if the current business component interacts with the “Asset Planning” business component and if the “WO Status on Release” is set to “Scheduled” in the “Set Options” activity of the current business component.

The system ensures the following before releasing the visit package:

• Atleast one visit package in the multiline must be selected.

• The approval status of the work unit associated to the visit package must be “Approved” or “Not Required”. The system displays an error message, if the status is 'Pending Approval” or “Pending Cust. Approval”.

• If the “Automatic Material Request Generation” field is set to “Yes” in the “Set Options” activity, the numbering type for the material request generation must have been specified in the “Set Options” activity of the “Hangar Work Order” business component.

• The components identified for “Component Removal” or “On-Wing” job type must be present in their respective position codes for the aircraft configuration for which the visit package is applicable.

• There should not be any pending instructions for the aircraft in the “Process Modified Allocations” activity.

• The planning information must be defined for the part requirements in the “Part Administration” business component.

The system performs the following on releasing the visit package:

• Automatically generates a material request, if the Option Setting “Automatic Material Request Generation” is set as “Yes” in the current business component. 

• Releases even those work units that are associated to an inactive position code.

• Retrieves the component details for the position code-level code combination from the “Configuration” business component, and updates the details to the work units involved in “On-wing” or “Component Replacement” jobs.

• Generates work orders for the visit package and updates the same in the “Hangar Work Order” business component , based on the following conditions:

• Generates a work order for each work center (The work units belonging to different work centers cannot be created under one work order)

• Generates a work order for each component removal transaction.

• Generates a work order for work units, which have the same DMR number reference. The discrepancy associated to the DMR number are also inherited by the work order. If work units having the same DMR number are associated to different (multiple) work centers, the system generates different work orders for each work center.

Note: The first work unit (based on sequence number) and all other work units belonging to the first work unit's work center will be grouped into a single work order (parent work order) and work units belonging to different work centers will be grouped into child work orders.

• Separate work orders are generated for each standard procedure and the standard procedure description is inherited as the work order description.

• The tasks and standard procedures will be grouped to different work orders based on the option selected in the “Set Work Order Generation Option” activity.

1. If “Create Work Order” field is set as “For Each Task”, one work order is generated for each task included in the visit package.

2. If “Create Work Order” field is set as “For Group of Task”, the work order is generated based on the option selected in the “Task Grouping Options” field.

1. If “ATA Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having similar ATA number.

2. If “Skill Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having similar skill requirements.

3. If “DSC Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having similar DSC number

4. If “Zone Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having similar zone number

5. If “Task Group Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work unts having similar task groups.

6. If “Plan Item Group Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having similar plan item groups and the plan item group is copied as the work order category.

7. If “Work Area Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units associated to similar work area.

8. If “Task Type Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having similar task types.

9. If “Related Task Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having the same related Parent task.

10. If  “Eng. Doc Wise” box is checked, one work order is created for the work units having the same Engineering document number as reference.

• The work order for access panel tasks will be generated based on the option selected in the “Set Options” activity of “Hangar Work Order” business component.

1. If the “Create Work Order” field is set to “Independent”, seperate work orders are generated for each access panel task.

2. If the “Create Work Order” field is set to “Combined” and “Task Grouping Options” is set to “Task Type”, separate work orders are created for open access panel tasks and close access panel tasks.

3. If the “Create Work Order” field is set to “Combined” and “Task Grouping Options” is set to “Main WO”, single work order is created for all the open access panel tasks and close access panel tasks.

Note: If both “Task Type” and “Main WO” option is checked, separate work orders are generated for open access panels and close access panel tasks.

• Copies the incoming part number and serial number details that are identified (including “Need frequency”) for the replacement type “Replacement” and “Attach Only” in the “Update Component Removal List” page, as part requirement and preferred serial / lot information of the task, for the work order generated against the visit package.

The system updates the work order with the following details:

• The “Exec.Phase” is updated against each work unit in the work order, as retrieved from the “Maintenance Task” business component.

• The “Status” of the work order is set to the status selected in the “WO Status on Release” field of the “Set Options” activity.

• The “Authorization Status” of the work order is set to “Not Required”.

• The released work units will have the reference of the work order number.

• The task will be sequenced in the work order based on the sequence number specified.

• The task requirements such as resource and parts are also copied to the respective task in the work order.

• The standard procedure requirements are copied as the work order level requirements.

• The earliest of all the priorities of the tasks, is taken as the priority for the work order.

• The task relationship details are also copied to the work order.

Note: The released work order will have dependency with some other work order that is released.

The system updates the material request details as follows:

• A material request will be generated for the parts required for the visit package, if the “Automatic Material Request Generation” field is set to “Yes” in the “Set Options” activity and based on the options selected in the “Hangar Work Order” business component and “Logistic Common Master” business component. The system updates the material request details in the “Hangar Work Order” and “Central Planning” business component.

• The numbering type and the status of the material request will depend upon the option selected in the “Set Option” activity of “Hangar Work Order” business component

• The material class is set to “Maintenance” and its type is set to “Planned”.

• The need date of the material request is updated with either the scheduled start date of the work order that is generated on release of the visit package, or the current server date, whichever is later. The system also updates the login employee code as the requestor number for the material request.

For customer-owned aircraft, the system retrieves the stock status for each part from the “Customer Order” business component, if a valid customer order is specified, and if the current business component interacts with the “Customer Order” business component.

For owned aircraft, the system updates the stock status of each part as the preferred stock status of the aircraft, specified in the “Aircraft” business component.

The system sets the visit package to “Released” status. The plan entries in the “Stock Planning” business component will be converted to firm entries.

What you can do in this page

Choose a numbering pattern to generate work order

Choose a numbering pattern to generate work order

You can select a numbering type for the work order to be generated on release of the visit package. A unique work order number will be generated by the system based on the numbering type you select in this page.

• Enter the work order description.

• Select the numbering type in the “Numbering Type” drop-down list box.

On clicking the “Release Visit Package” pushbutton, the system generates the work order number using the selected numbering type.

Releasing visit package – An overview

In this page, you can select a visit package to be released. You can carry out a search based on the visit package number, aircraft registration number, visit package description, visit package type, category, status and the user status. Based on the search criteria, the details are retrieved by the system. The visit package number, revision number, its description, aircraft for which the visit package is applicable, visit type, visit category, user defined status, planned start date and end date of the visit package and the status are displayed in the multiline.

You must enter the work order description, and the work order number will be generated for the work units in the visit package, based on the numbering type you select in this page. On release of the visit package, the system generates the work orders on the respective work centers, which are responsible for work execution.

The system updates the status of the visit package to “Released” status and stores the name of the currently logged in user and current server date.

You can select a set of work units belonging to the visit package and partly release the visit package in the “Selective Release of Visit Package” page.