Approving a maintenance program

Approving & activating a maintenance program

This page allows you to approve a maintenance program. Tell me more.

Select the “Approve & Activate Aircraft Maint. Program” link under the “Aircraft Maintenance Program” business component.

The “Approve & Activate Maintenance Program” page appears.

To search for an aircraft maintenance program

Enter the following fields in the “Search Criteria” group box:

Maintenance Program #	The maintenance program to be activated, inactivated or returned (Alphanumeric, 30). You can enter the maintenance program number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all maintenance programs with similar numbers.
Status	Use the drop-down list box to retrieve maintenance programs based on the status. The system provides the options “Active”, “Inactive” and “Confirm”. The system displays “Confirm” by default.
Program Desc	The description of the program to be activated, inactivated or returned (Alphanumeric, 150). You can enter the description in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all programs with similar description.
Program Category	Use the drop-down list box to retrieve programs belonging to a specific category. The system lists all quick codes defined in the “Create Quick Codes” activity of type “Program Category”.
Aircraft Reg #	The aircraft for which you wish to retrieve the maintenance program (Alphanumeric, 30). Enter the aircraft registration number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all maintenance programs specified for similar aircraft.
Primary Model #	Use the drop-down list box to retrieve maintenance programs created for specific models. The system lists all aircraft models created in the “Create Aircraft Model” activity of the “Aircraft” business component, which are in the “Active” status.

Click the ‘Search” pushbutton.

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

The system retrieves the following fields in the “Search Results” multiline:

Maintenance Program #	The maintenance program retrieved by the system.
Revision #	The revision number of the maintenance program.
Status	The status of the maintenance program, which can be “Active”, “Inactive” or “Confirm”.

Enter the following field:

Maintain Prev Rev.?

Use the drop-down list box and set the field to “Yes” if you wish to maintain all the previous revisions of the maintenance program, when this version of the program is activated. Otherwise, set the field to “No”.

The system displays the following fields:

Program Desc	The description of the maintenance program.
Program Category	The category to which the program belongs.

Enter the following field in the “Search Results” multiline:

Comments

Any additional information about activating, inactivating or confirming the maintenance program (Alphanumeric, 255).

Select the hyperlinked maintenance program number to edit the maintenance program details.
Check the box in the multiline to select the programs for activating, inactivating or returning or for comparing the revisions.
Click the “Activate Program” pushbutton to activate the selected programs.

Note: Ensure that the selected programs are not already in “Active” status. The system activates the selected programs and sets the status of the programs to “Active”. If there is already exists a previous revision of the program in the “Active” status, the system sets the status of the previous revision to “Revised”. In addition, if the “Maintain Prev Rev.?” field is set to “Yes” for the selected program, the system maintains all previous revisions of the programs on activating the selected revision.

The system activates/ approves the maintenance program only if the following information is available;

The Next Scheduled Date or the Next Scheduled Value for one-time as well as recurring tasks of Prog. Item Type = Block, Base and Non-Block tasks with Schedule Status other than “Inactive” and “Terminated”.

If any task (one-time or recurring) in the maintenance program does not have Next Scheduled Date or the Next Scheduled Value, the following information is mandatory for approval of the maintenance program;

The Next Scheduled Date or the Next Scheduled Value of any related task with which the task shares “Conditional” relationship.

If the task available in the Aircraft Maintenance Program with Escalation Ref # is inactivated in the “Edit Aircraft Maintenance Program” page of the “Aircraft Maintenance Program” business component, the system deletes the task from the pending tray, if the Line Status of the task is updated as “Cancelled” as shown in the below table.

Scenario	Escalation Status of task	Line Status of inactivated task
Only one task is available against the Escalation Ref #	Cancelled	Cancelled
Multiple tasks are available against the Escalation Ref # and some of the tasks are pending for compliance	No change	Cancelled
Multiple Task is available and all the tasks are complied, except the task which is inactivated	Closed	Cancelled

The system deletes all the tasks whose Line Status is updated as “Cancelled”, from the pending tray.

Click the “Inactivate Program” pushbutton to inactivate the maintenance program.

Note: You cannot inactivate the maintenance program, which is already in “Inactive” or “Confirmed” status.

The system sets the status of the maintenance program to “Inactive”.

Click the “Return” pushbutton to return the maintenance program.

Note: Ensure that the maintenance program is in the “Confirm” status. The system sets the status of the maintenance program to “Return”. The returned program can be modified further in the “Edit Aircraft Maint. Program” activity and confirmed for activating it at a later date.

To proceed, carry out the following,

Select the “Compare Program Revisions” link to compare the selected revision of the maintenance program with other revisions.

Activate/Inactivate/Return a maintenance program – An overview

This page enables you to select an aircraft maintenance program and allows you to activate, inactivate or return more than one maintenance program at the same time. You can carry out a search based on the maintenance program number, its status, program description, program category, the aircraft on which the maintenance program can be performed and the primary model for which the maintenance program is applicable. Based on the search criteria entered, the system retrieves the maintenance programs in the multiline. You can select more than one program from the multiline and carry out one of the following:

Activate – You can activate a program only when the program is in the “Confirm” status. The status of the program is set to “Active”.
Inactivate – A maintenance program that is in the “Active” status can be inactivated. The status of the program is set to “Inactive”.
Return – If the program cannot be activated it can be returned back for further modifications. Only a maintenance program that is the “Confirm” status can be returned. The status of the program is set to “Return”. A returned program can be further modified and then confirmed to be activated again.

You are also provided with the option of deleting all previous revisions of the maintenance program on activating a specific revision. There can only one aircraft maintenance program and revision # combination in an " Active" status.