Closing visit package

You can select a visit package, which is in the “Released” or “Partially Released” status for closing. Tell me more

Select the “Close Visit Package” link under the “Visit Package” business component.

The “Close Visit Package” page appears.

The system displays the following field:

Date Format

The format in which the date fields are displayed in this page. 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 format from the “Enterprise Modeling” business component by default.

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:

Visit Package #	The visit package for which the details are to be closed (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system lists all the visit package numbers that are similar to the values entered here.
Aircraft Reg #	The aircraft registration number for which the visit package details are to be retrieved (Alphanumeric, 30). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system lists all the visit packages that are created for the aircraft that are similar to the values entered here.
Title	Enter the description of the visit package in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system displays all the visit packages whose description are similar to the description entered here. Zoom facility available.
User Status	Use the drop-down list box to select the user-defined status of the visit package. The system lists all the visit packages that are of the status specified here. Leave this field blank if you wish to retrieve the visit package irrespective of their user-status.
Primary Work Center #	Use the drop-down list box to select the primary work center of the visit package. The system lists all the work centers to which the login user has access. Leave this field blank, if you wish to retrieve details of visit package irrespective of their primary work center. The system leaves the field blank by default.
Grounding Date: From	The date on which the aircraft is grounded for the execution of maintenance activities (Date Format). The system retrieves the visit package, which has the grounding date on or after the date specified here. The date entered here must be earlier than the date entered in the “To Date” field.
Grounding Date: To	The date on which the aircraft is grounded for the execution of maintenance activities (Date Format). The system retrieves the visit package, which has the grounding date on or before the date specified here.
Visit Type	Use the drop-down list box to indicate the type of the visit package to be retrieved, which could be “Planned” or “Unplanned”. The system retrieves all those visit packages that are of the type specified here. Leave this field blank if you wish to retrieve details of visit package irrespective of their type.
Visit Category	Use the drop-down list box to specify the category of the visit package to be retrieved. The system retrieves all those visit packages that are in the category specified here. Leave this field blank if you wish to retrieve details of visit package irrespective of their category.
Customer #	The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the customer number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the visit packages created for the customer number entered here.
Customer Name	The name of the customer owning the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the customer name in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the visit packages whose description created for the customer name entered here.

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” pushbutton to retrieve the visit package details.

Note: The system retrieves the visit packages, which are in the “Released” or “Partly Released” status.

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

Visit Package #	The number identifying the visit package.
Revision #	The revision number of the visit package.
Title	The description of the visit package.
Aircraft Reg #	The aircraft registration number for which the visit package is applicable.
Primary Work Center #	The primary work center of the visit package.
Work Center Description	The description of the primary work center of the visit package.
Visit Type	The type of the visit package, which could be “Planned” or “Unplanned”.
Visit Category	The category to which the visit package belongs.
User Status	The user-defined status assigned o the visit package.
Planned Start Date	The date on which the visit package execution has to be started.
Planned End Date	The date on which the visit package execution has to be completed.
Status	The status of the visit package, which could be “Released” or “Partly Released”.
Enter the following fields:
File Name	The name of the file containing the visit package details (Alphanumeric, 50). Help facility available.
Closing Comments	Any comments pertaining to the closure of visit package details (Alphanumeric, 255).
The system displays the following fields:
Customer #	The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft.
Customer Name	The name of the customer owning the aircraft.

Check the “Select All” box to select all the visit packages in the multiline for closing.
Select the “View File” link provided below the multiline, to view the file contents.

To proceed, carry out the following

Select the “View Pending Work Units” link at the bottom of the page, to view the pending unit details.
Select the “Create Deferment Request” link at the bottom of the page, to create a request for deferring work unit execution.
Select the “Review Visit Package Execution” link at the bottom of the page, to view the visit package execution details.
Select the "Report Additional Man Hours" link at the bottom of the page, to manage additional man hours and visit extensions.

To close the visit package

The system ensures the following before closing the visit package:

The work orders associated to the visit package must be closed.
If the “CoM Required’ field is set to “Yes” for the selected visit package, then the CoM must be issued for the visit package on the aircraft registration number.
The discrepancy associated to the visit package must be defered before closing the visit package.
The parts issued for the visit package must be returned.
If the visit pacakge is in “Partly Released” status, the work units that are not associated to the work order must be in “Cancelled” or “Deferred” status.
Click the “Close Visit Package” pushbutton to close the selected visit package(s).

Note: The system sets the status of the visit package to “Closed”.

The system performs the following:

On closing of the visit package, the financial postings are made and the cost incurred on the visit package is updated in the finance modules.
The system removes those work units that are in “Completed” job status from the pending tray, for the visit package that is being closed.
For the work units of type “Aircraft Work Package”, the system updates the “Last Performed Date” with the closing date of the visit package, in the corresponding aircraft maintenance programs that are in “Fresh”, “Active” or “Confirmed” status.
For the work units of type “Component Work Package”, the system updates the “Last Performed Date” with the closing date of the visit package, in the corresponding component maintenance programs that are in “Fresh”, “Active” or “Confirmed” status.

Note: The system updates the “Last Performed Date” even for un-forecasted work units.

If the visit package is marked as not required for “COM”, then the system updates the condition of the aircraft that is associated to the visit package as “Operational” from “Under Maintenance”, and sets the “AOG Status?” field to “No” in the ”Aircraft” business component.
For those work units that has an execution status as “As Required” and if they are a part of the primary maintenance program of the aircraft, the system updates the compliance history of the work units.
If the visit package is based on a customer order and any internal part was issued against the visit package, the stock status of the internal part that was issued, will change to "Customer".

Note: The component ownership must be changed from ‘owned’ to ‘customer’ in “Stock Maintenance” as well as in “Aircraft Component”

If the component is not attached, the “stock status” and “preferred stock status” of the component must be updated in “Stock Maintenance” as well as “Aircraft Master” with the “preferred stock status” of the aircraft on which the Visit Package is executed.
The component ownership change history in the aircraft component must be updated as “Owned” to “Customer”.
The “Transfer Type” must be updated to “Sale”. The “Change Description” must be updated to “Component Ownership, Owning Agency Edited”.

Closing visit package – An overview

You can select a visit package, which is in the “Released” or “Partly Released” status for closing. You can carry out a search based on the visit package number, aircraft registration number, description, user status, grounding date visit package type and the category. Based on the search criteria, the details are retrieved by the system. The visit package number, revision number, description, aircraft for which the visit package is applicable, its type, category, user defined status, planned start and end date of the visit package and the status are displayed in the multiline.

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