Heavy Maintenance Production Planning & Control
The assignment of work to a heavy maintenance facility sets in motion a detailed project planning and scheduling activity. In heavy maintenance, this activity has the objective of completing work within the scheduled time, while dealing with a significant number of non-routine tasks generated during the inspections, teardowns, and replacements. The Heavy Maintenance Production Planning & Control features of Maintenix provide the tools necessary to plan the initial work scope, to blend in non-routine work effectively as it is discovered, and to ensure the smooth completion of the check.
For project planning, Maintenix allows a production planner to create a master plan for the visit that makes optimal use of resources. This plan may minimize visit duration, or minimize the number of concurrent people working on the check, or be molded around any other restriction. Maintenix provides the ability to create plan templates and to project the number and type of non-routines that will be generated, based on defined estimates or previous check historical analysis. The production planner can refine the plan as the start date draws closer, adding DMIs and OOPs as applicable. The system also ensures that you are taking credit for any work already done and suppressing duplicate job cards (so that you are doing the least work that you can while still ensuring that all requirements are met). Additionally, Maintenix allows you to generate work package summaries and material pre-draw reports.
The production controller can then take the plan created by the production planner and assign labor resources to individual tasks based on qualifications, as well as reserve and order tools and materials. As the check progresses, the production controller can monitor the execution of the work package, view non-routines that are automatically added to the plan as they are found, and evaluate the impact of these non-routines, repair findings, and any other delays or bottlenecks. Visibility into potential delays and NR impacts, including the resource requirements for them, improves the production controller's decision-making ability with regard to overtime, work deferrals, crew assignment adjustment, etc. and allows the potential for informing Operations of late rollouts so that operational schedules and aircraft route assignments can be adjusted accordingly.
At any time, up-to-date check summaries can be generated that present routine and non-routine task statuses, planned vs. actual personnel utilized, materials consumed, total cost, driving tasks, and estimated completion date. This allows for real-time status monitoring, as well as post-check analysis to improve planning of future checks.
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