Lead-the-Fleet (LTF): Transitioning Army Aviation Maintenance from a Time Based Maintenance System to a Usage Based System

A key element of exploitation processes constitutes maintenance operations and tasks. While being conducted in the proper way, they have a crucial effect on achieving the assumed by aircraft designer and operator goals. Properly conducted maintenance operations allow to meet all the technical objects readiness requirements as well as to achieve desired acceptable risk level. Maintenance system effectiveness might be generally a crucial task for company or entity responsible for the maintenance. In this context, particularly relevant become technical object maintenance procedures and tasks developed by their manufacturers. Experience of the article authors quite early shows the need of the mainte-nance programmes modification. Aircraft manufacturers usually are not so eager to develop and implement mainte-nance programme modifications. Presented situation is very much the case in aviation transport. This was the reason why authors of this article decided to prepare and develop this elaboration which might constitute the assistance and supports complex technical objects users in maintenance decision. The main purpose of this article is to present maintenance decisions’ supporting method for the aircraft operators. This article provides guidelines which include a description of risk in the context of aviation maintenance and introduction of some methodologies, tools and criteria that support identification, analysis and evaluation of risk. Authors included idea, how the aircraft preventive maintenance could be used to mitigate aircraft failure risk during flight operations. It also shows how to adopt and develop effective maintenance program using tools for adequate risk analysis, optimal interval assignments, and selection of the most effective maintenance task. Authors presented methodology and de-scribed steps of the logic diagram analysis for the aircraft systems and their components, in order to manage and adopt aircraft maintenance program to fulfil aircraft airworthiness requirements and operational availability. The whole methodology was described on the basis of the F 16 aircraft maintenance system and with reference to the maintenance data. This article might also constitute an introduction to the aircraft maintenance programme development method.

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Telaahan Literatur Tentang Program Perawatan Pesawat Udara

WARTA ARDHIA ◽

10.25104/wa.v38i4.205.356-372 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 356-372

Author(s):

Minda Mora

Keyword(s):

Steering Committee ◽

Maintenance Planning ◽

Initial Development ◽

Aviation Maintenance ◽

Failure Resistance ◽

Regulatory Authorities ◽

Maintenance System ◽

Maintenance Program ◽

Policies And Procedures ◽

The Right

Maintenance is one of the most important thing in aviation. Maintenance is the process where a systems designed-in level of failure resistance is restored to or as close as economic viable to the most adequate level of the design. In order to conduct maintenance in the right way, each aircraft is required to have a Maintenance Program (MP). There are three main actors relating to the initial development of the MP, which are the manufacturer, the Industrial Steering Committee (ISC) and the Maintenance Review Board (MRB). In the manufacturers, PPH (Policies and Procedures Handbook) process for developing the initial MP is clearly described. The PPH is prepared by the manufacturer and presented to the ISC (Industrial steering committee) for review and approval. ISC then forwards it to the MRB chairpersons and other regulatory authorities for acceptance.Based on MRB review, the manufacturer develop Maintenance Review Board Report (MRBR) and Maintenance Planning Document (MPD). When introducing a new fleet of aircraft into the operator, there is no experience and the organization must follow the MRBR (Maintenance Review Board Report) and MPD (Maintenance Planning Document) when setting up their own MP. It is the operator’s responsibility to ensure that their MP is up to date. When a new revision of the MRBR and MPD is released the operator should incorporate the alterations into their MP and update their maintenance system and make the revision active at next suitable opportunity. The next suitable opportunity would be before next major base input or c-check.Perawatan pesawat udara merupakan salah satu unsur penting dalam penerbangan. Perawatan adalah semua kegiatan yang dilakukan untuk mempertahankan pesawat udara, komponen-komponen pesawat udara dan perlengkapannya dalam keadaan laik udara termasuk inspeksi, reparasi, servis, overhaul dan penggantian part. Untuk dapat melakukan perawatan dengan benar, maka setiap pesawat udara diharuskan memiliki Program Perawatan. terdapat 3 (tiga) pihak yang terlibat dalam penyusunan awal Program Perawatan, yaitu pabrikan pesawat udara, the Maintenance Review Board (MRB), dan the Industrial Steering Committee (ISC). Pabrikan berkewajiban membuat Policy and Procedures Handbook (PPH) yang berisi informasi lengkap dan jelas tentang proses penyusunan Program Perawatan Pesawat Awal. PPH kemudian diserahkan kepada ISC yang berkewenang untuk melakukan peninjauan terhadap PPH dan apabila telah memenuhi persyaratan maka ISC mengeluarkan persetujuan terhadap PPH (approval). Selanjutnya, ISC menyerahkan PPH kepada MRB untuk evaluasi dan analisis lebih lanjut. Berdasarkan evaluasi dan analisis MRB, pabrikan membuat Maintenance Review Board Report (MRBR) dan Maintenance Planning Document (MPD). MRBR dan MPD merupakan panduan bagi operator pesawat udara untuk melakukan perawatan pesawat udara dan membuat Program Perawatan pesawat udara sendiri. Namun, operator berkewajiban untuk memperbahatui Program Perawatannya apabila terdapat perubahan MRBR dan MPD dari pabrikan.

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Applying Systems Modeling Language in an Aviation Maintenance System

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management ◽

10.1109/tem.2021.3089438 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Fatine Elakramine ◽

Raed Jaradat ◽

Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain ◽

Marc Banghart ◽

Chad Kerr ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Modeling Language ◽

Systems Modeling ◽

Aviation Maintenance ◽

Maintenance System

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ASPECTS OF QUALITY EVALUATION IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE

Aviation ◽

10.3846/16487788.2004.9635877 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 18-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Artūras Gališanskis

Keyword(s):

Quality Evaluation ◽

Quality System ◽

Civil Aviation ◽

Total Quality ◽

Aviation Maintenance ◽

Maintenance System ◽

System A ◽

Assurance System ◽

High Level ◽

And Training

This article deals with the review of the main parameters and assessment of a quality system. A quality assurance system and its management are of great importance to an aviation organization whether it is large or small. The final task of the quality system is to ensure the technical aircraft maintenance system at a high level of quality, to ensure airworthiness of the aircraft. In our days Total Quality Management (TQM), as a new philosophy, is gaining power in civil aviation. Seeking quality is vital for maintenance organization for such reasons as the survival of the organization and competitiveness in the market. TQM is directly connected with the ISO 9000:2000 series standard implementation and involves many other parameters such as the qualifications of personnel and training. As an instrument for control, an audit, done by themselves or by an outside company, is indicated.

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