Selecting visit package for modification
In this page, you can select a visit package for confirmation, cancellation or modification. Tell me more
Select the “Edit Visit Package” link under the “Visit Package” business component.
The “Select 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 in the “Direct Entry” group box, if you know the visit package number to be modified:
Visit Package # |
The visit package for which the details are to be modified (Alphanumeric, 18). |
Note: You can modify only those visit packages that are in “Fresh” or “Confirmed” status.
Select the “Edit Visit Package Details” link displayed alongside, to modify the visit package information.
To search for a visit package
Enter the following in the “Search Criteria” group box, to search for a visit package. Data entry in the following fields is optional:
Visit Package # |
The number identifying the visit package (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. |
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 in the status specified here. Leave this field blank, if you wish to retrieve the visit package irrespective of the user-defined status. The system leaves the field blank by default. |
Aircraft Reg # |
The aircraft registration number for which the visit package is applicable (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 whose registration numbers are similar to the number entered here. |
Priority |
Use the drop-down list box to indicate the priority of the visit package. The system retrieves all the visit packages that are of the priority specified here. Leave this field blank, if you wish to retrieve details of visit package irrespective of their priority. The system leaves the field blank by default. |
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 starting date in the range of dates, for which the aircraft is grounded for the visit package execution (Date Format). The system retrieves all the visit packages, which have a grounding date that is later than the date specified here. The date entered here must be earlier than the date entered in the “To Date” field. |
Grounding Date: To |
The ending date in the range of dates, for which the aircraft is grounded for the visit package execution (Date Format). The system retrieves all the visit packages, which have a grounding date that falls 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 the 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. The system leaves the field blank by default. |
Visit Category |
Use the drop-down list box to specify the category of the visit package to be retrieved. The system retrieves all the visit packages that are of the category specified here. Leave this field blank, if you wish to retrieve details of visit package irrespective of their category. The system leaves the field blank by default. |
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 created for the customer name entered here. |
Click the “Search” pushbutton to display the search results.
Note: You can modify only those visit packages that are in “Fresh” or “Confirmed”.
The system displays the following in the “Search Results” multiline based on the filter criteria specified:
Visit Package # |
The number identifying the visit package retrieved by the system. |
Revision # |
The revision number of the visit package. |
Title |
The description of the visit package. |
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. |
Aircraft Reg # |
The aircraft registration number for which the visit package is applicable. |
Visit Type |
The type of the visit package, which could be “Planned” or “Unplanned”. |
Visit Category |
The category to which the visit package belongs. |
Grounding Date |
The date on which the aircraft will be grounded for the execution of maintenance activities. |
Priority |
The priority assigned to the visit package. |
Status |
The status of the visit package, which could be “Fresh” or “Confirmed”. |
Planned Start Date |
The date on which the visit package execution must start. |
Planned End Date |
The date on which the visit package execution must be completed. |
User Status |
The user-defined status assigned to the visit package. |
Approval Status |
The approval status of the visit package, which could be “Pending Approval” or “Not Required”. |
Customer # |
The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft. |
Customer Name |
The name of the customer owning the aircraft. |
Check the box in the “Select” column of the multiline, to mark the visit package for modification, confirmation or cancellation.
Note: You can modify only those visit packages that are in “Fresh”, “Confirmed”, “Released” or “Partially Released” status.
Click the “Confirm” pushbutton to confirm the details of the selected visit package.
The system verifies the following while confirming the visit package details:
The part and serial number, or the component ID must be attached to the aircraft.
The visit package must be in “Fresh” status.
The visit package must have been assigned to a visit group.
Atleast one work unit must be defined for the visit package with revision number “0”.
The part requirement specified for the work units must have the planning information defined in the “Create Part Main Information” activity of the “Part Administration” business component.
If the “Job Type” is set to “On-Wing” for the work units in the visit package, the component ID or the base part number of the part must have been defined as the component effectivity for the work unit in the “Maintenance Task” business component.
If the “Job Type” is selected as “Aircraft”, the system checks for the aircraft effectivity of the work unit in the “Maintenance Task” business component.
The system performs the following on confirming the visit package:
Sets the “Planned End Date” of the visit package to the latest of the planned end dates specified for the work units in the visit package.
Sets the status of the visit package to “Confirmed”.
Generates or modifies the plan entry according to the dispositionable part requirements specified for the visit package in the “Stock Planning” business component.
Note: You can cancel only visit packages of type “Unplanned” that are either in “Fresh” or “Confirmed” status.
Click the “Cancel Visit package” pushbutton to cancel the visit package.
The system sets the visit package to “Cancelled” status.
Details such as the components to be removed, access panel tasks, part requirements, resource requirements and task relationships are deleted.
Reservation entries, if any, made in the “Stock Planning” business component for the dispositionable parts, are deleted.
If the work units assigned to the unplanned visit package are planned work units, the system updates the status of those work units to “Pending” and moves the work units to the “Central Planning” pending tray for processing.
To proceed, carry out the following
Select the hyperlinked visit package number in the multiline, to modify the visit package information.
Select the “View Error Log” link to view the details of errors generated during confirmation or release of the visit package.
Selecting visit package for modification – An overview
In this page, you can select a visit package for confirmation, cancellation or modification.
If you know the visit package number, you can directly enter it. Otherwise, you can carry out a search based on the visit package number, user status, aircraft registration number, priority, grounding date, its type or category. Based on the search criteria entered, the details are retrieved by the system. The visit package number, revision number, description, the aircraft for which the visit package is applicable, the visit package type, category, priority, status, planned start and end date, user-defined status assigned to the visit package and the approval status are displayed in the multiline.
You can also confirm or cancel the visit package in this page. On confirmation, the visit package is set to “Confirmed” status; on cancellation, the status is set to “Cancelled”.