The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at. Apply to maintenance planner, plannerscheduler, document specialist and more. The primary output from maintenance planning is a check pack, work pack or engineering order, the inputs into maintenance planning are. Depot maintenance strategic plan executive summary this depot maintenance strategic plan articulates the department of defenses strategy and plans for ensuring its organic depot maintenance infrastructure is postured and resourced to meet the national security and materiel readiness challenges of. Smaller aircraft usually have the tch recommended maintenance in the maintenance. An optimization model for aircraft maintenance scheduling and. Part i depot maintenance strategic plan executive summary. Planning, technical records, engineering, and reliability.
Pdf current practices and problem areas in aircraft. Understanding the easa maintenance planning process sofema. The maintenance programme must be produced for each aircraft type by the operator aoc holder and subsequently approved by the naa. The purpose of this paper is to examine how certain limitations of the current approaches to planning and scheduling of aircraft heavy maintenance can be addressed using a single integrated framework supported by unified data structures. Predictive maintenance is the complement of preventive maintenance. Everyone needs to know how the maintenance work will be planned, scheduled and executed, and what they will do in the maintenance process. Aircraft maintenance plan is arranged by aviation production management, that is how to arrange the right time, right place, and correct sequence of maintenance tasks to ensure the normal execution of the original flight plan and the maintenance costs are minimized at the same time. Airport compatibility airplane characteristics for. Through the utilization of various nondestructive testing and measuring techniques, predictive maintenance determines equipment status.
In this paper we consider the problem faced by an airline needing to construct a 7 day planning horizon cyclic schedule with maintenance constraints for a. Maintenance planning and scheduling for reliability helps to double operating profit in the average industrial company. The planning and scheduling program provides a structure into which ppm routines are woven. Specific planning advice to go along with a cmms 340 advanced helpful features for planning and scheduling 341 summary 342 10 how planning interacts with preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and project work 343 preventive maintenance and planning 343 predictive maintenance and planning 348 project work and planning 350. An optimization model for aircraft maintenance scheduling and re. Chapter 5 types of maintenance programs us department of energy. Aviation maintenance technician handbook general pdf, 64. Establishing an aircraft maintenance facility management essay over the years, there has been a high demand for the establishment of an aircraft maintenance facility in nigeria. Kinnison as cited in eurocontrol stated that maintenance planning document mpd of airbus or maintenance planning data mpd of boeing are examples of documents that are released by aircraft manufacturers for maintenance program preparation. In a 24x7 manufacturing operation, it is typically better to perform the 10 hours of activities in several smaller periods of time, for instance 5 pm activities that take 2 hours each.
The maintenance checks on aircraft are to be scheduled based on the given. Eurocontrol described that these documents contain usually what, how, and when the minimum mandatory. Preventive and predictive maintenance 700zb00102 42 preventivepredictive maintenance the guiding principle of ppm is the regular and systematic application of engineering knowledge and maintenance attention to equipment and facilities to ensure their proper functionality and to reduce their rate of deterioration. These reference documents provide airlines, mros, airport planners and operators with the general dimensions of the aircraft, as well as the necessary information for ramp, servicing operations or maintenance preparation. Anant sahay, in leveraging information technology for optimal aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul mro, 2012. This paper reports current practices, problem areas and issues in aircraft maintenance planning and scheduling using both interfaced and integrated systems, based on a case study. Maintenance planning documents mpds are provided by aircraft manufacturers to describe the repetitive tasks that are required to maintain their aircraft. Doing maintenance planning and scheduling is important. Basics of aircraft maintenance programs for financiers v1. The continuous airworthiness management organization camo is essentially responsible for 4 primary functions.
An optimization model for aircraft maintenance scheduling. You need to know how the maintenance work will flow through your company from its request to its completion. For large transport aircraft, the tasks can be found in maintenance planning document provided by the tch, these are described further in. Aircraft maintenance planning engineering function blog. Oct 19, 2012 the purpose of this paper is to examine how certain limitations of the current approaches to planning and scheduling of aircraft heavy maintenance can be addressed using a single integrated framework supported by unified data structures. Organizational structures of maintenance and operations. Jun 10, 2014 sofema aviation services offers aircraft maintenance planning and aircraft production planning training courses please see. Based on the list of tasks for which a decision should be made, a set of feasible alternatives is identified. Aircraft maintenance planning and documents engineer lufthansa technik is the worlds leading provider for maintenance, repair and overhaul mro of aircraft components and engines with more than 50 years experience in helping the worlds leading airlines deliver. Maintenance planning engineers use the mpd information to develop operator maintenance programs omps that are then submitted to the relevant aviation authority for approval. Aircraft scheduled airframe maintenance and downtime. Jan 25, 2017 in short, an approved maintenance program is a list in the form of a long table of all maintenance tasks which need to be performed on an aircraft from time to time.
The main challenge for aircraft maintenance engineers is to keep the aircraft airworthy without any service interruptions. Planning experience related to vvip aircraft completions. Depot maintenance strategic plan executive summary this depot maintenance strategic plan articulates the department of defenses strategy and plans for ensuring its organic depot maintenance infrastructure is postured and resourced to meet the national security and materiel readiness challenges of the 21st century. Jan 29, 2014 the continuous airworthiness management organization camo is essentially responsible for 4 primary functions.
The report has been subdivided into five chapters, and it can be read as follows. In this paper we consider the problem faced by an airline needing to construct a 7day planning horizon cyclic schedule with maintenance constraints for a. Aircraft manufacturers prescribe how often parts of an aircraft need to receive maintenance in a maintenance planning document mpd. Typically a good maintenance planning engineer has a strong aviation background, such background knowledge aids and supports the maintenance planning role and enables a strong understanding of how to comply with the various tasks. Hence, in theory, an aircraft should visit a hangar only as planned.
This system is widely used by amos and operators to track and manage aircraft maintenance. Understanding the easa maintenance planning process. This report is a business plan that summarises the research methodologies and methods that will be applied when the maintenance repair overhaul mro project is being. Analysis on costs for aircraft maintenance 179 airline. In other words, based on the amp an airworthiness engineer knows exactly what tasks need to be performed after an aircraft reaches a certain point in life, be it calculated based. Consideration of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and project work 3 preventive maintenance and planning 3 predictive maintenance and planning 319 project work and planning 320 x contents. Optimization of aircraft maintenance plan based on genetic. Trainers and educators throughout the army will also use this publication. Duration and variability in preventive maintenance are key. Tracware specialises in providing software solutions for the aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul mro industry, including aircraft maintenance modification and maintenance planning, engine component overhaul, piecepart processing and repair, manufacturing and parts distribution. Purpose the purpose of this paper is to examine how certain limitations of the current approaches to planning and scheduling of aircraft heavy maintenance. In this paper we consider the problem faced by an airline needing to construct a 7day planning horizon cyclic schedule with maintenance constraints for a heterogeneous. How to create an approved aircraft maintenance program.
Developing the aircraft maintenance planning document mpd. Establishing an aircraft maintenance facility management essay. Can allow for greater control of all aspects of operations and act as a clearinghouse for all work orders. Maintenance planning optimisation for the boeing 737 next. The aircraft maintenance program and its importance on continuing airworthiness management vitor monteiro correia instituto superior tecnico abstract in air transport, besides safety, the economical aspect of operation is the other base element for the success of the aviation industry. Jul 03, 2012 typically a good maintenance planning engineer has a strong aviation background, such background knowledge aids and supports the maintenance planning role and enables a strong understanding of how to comply with the various tasks. Maintenance done as explained in this book is not a cost. In the late 1960s, with the introduction of the boeing 747, the airline industry needed to reevaluate its maintenance philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to examine how certain limitations of the current approaches to planning and scheduling of aircraft. Maintenance free operating period mfop in order to reduce the costs, a new method based on maintenance free operating period mfop has been developed. For manufacturers like airbus or boeing, this document is called the maintenance planning document mpd.
An approach to operational aircraft maintenance planning. A descriptive model of aircraft inspection activities george nickles, hector him, scott koenig, anand gramopadhye and brian melloy department of industrial engineering clemson university clemson, sc 296340920 abstract task analyses of aircraft inspection maintenance activities have shown the importance of. For large transport aircraft, the tasks can be found in maintenance planning document provided by the tch, these are described further in paragraph 3 of this document. Register to access technical data for the a220 family, which joined airbus product portfolio in 2018. Preventive maintenance principles mit opencourseware. Contact boeing for any additional airplane information not. A maintenance planning and scheduling process needs to be designed. At that time, most maintenance involved replacing components based on the number of hours flown. This manual applies to all dcma personnel assigned to aircraft operations ao headquarters hq, or region staffs, or performing aircraft operations functions described in this manual and dcma instruction dcmainst 82101, or performing the following federal acquisition regulation far 42. Aircraft maintenance plan is arranged by aviation production management, that is how to arrange the right time, right place, and correct sequence of. In short, an approved maintenance program is a list in the form of a long table of all maintenance tasks which need to be performed on an aircraft from time to time.
Sofema aviation services offers aircraft maintenance planning and aircraft production planning training courses please see. Past and current maintenance practices in both the private and government sectors would imply that maintenance is the actions associated with equipment repair after it is broken. These groups work together to ensure that the aircraft remain fully compliant with all requirements concerning the aircraft maintenance management and associated oversight. Maintenance planning and scheduling mechanical team. Existing approaches to aircraft maintenance planning and scheduling are limited in their capacity to deal with contingencies arising out of inspections carried out during the. Faah808331a, aviation maintenance technician handbookairframe volume 1 pdf, 193. The avdex team realized that documentation of aircraft. The unscheduled maintenance tends to be most expensive in terms of maintenance costs because it is unplanned. Rotary wing suitable for maintenance services providers, aircraft modification and. These arguments are also supported by the fact that there is a lack for communication between operational planning and maintenance planning, resulting in high operational costs and low operational reliability despite the materialization of operational and maintenance planning approaches into software systems.
Aircraft characteristics airport and maintenance planning content chg code last revision date figure ground clearances leading edge slats extended may 0115 subject 241 interior arrangements plan view may 0116 figure interior arrangements plan view typical configuration singleclass, high density may 0116. The avdex aircraft maintenance planning amp system has grown to become a south african aviation industry standard. Often the improvements dont last, even when the initial implementation seemed successful. Basics of aircraft maintenance programs for financiers 1012010 specified age, expressed as the number of operatin 1. The aircraft maintenance program and its importance on. Backlog work originates from pmpdm inspections, in the form of corrective work orders, from projects and nonurgent requests from sources throughout the organization. Aircraft maintenance an overview sciencedirect topics. A descriptive model of aircraft inspection activities. This process has been implemented in the form of a software system. Pdf aviation maintenance management, second edition. Most organisations that implement maintenance planning and scheduling do not achieve the longterm results they expected. Aircraft maintenance planning and documents engineer. The mrb report, the manufacturer publishes its own document for maintenance planning.