Dispatch Asset and Close Maintenance Visit
General
This process handles the dispatching/returning of an asset back to the
operator and conclusion of the heavy maintenance visit. Concluding the
maintenance visit allows:
- Service providers to report back to operators on work that has been
performed against the asset during the visit.
- Service providers to create, review and deliver release documentation.
- Customers or operators to review the completed work package before
returning the asset back to service.
Complete Maintenance Visit
On completion of all work orders against a work package, service providers
often have a large number of documentation records specific to the activities
performed during the visit that need to be updated and maintained. These include
recording the:
- Replacement, exchange and removal of serials from the structure.
- Modifications, AD (airworthiness directives), SB (service bulletins)
that have been embodied and completed.
- Asset usage recorded due to maintenance activities, for example, ground
runs and taxi runs.
Once this information has been successfully recorded, sign off can be done on
the maintenance order for the visit, release to service certifications can be
generated and all transactions transferred to history.
Once the operator is satisfied with the details provided by the service
provider, the asset is transferred back to the operator. This can include
changes to:
- Shipment (if the asset was receipted into Inventory).
- Owner details.
- Location.
- Part access.
Conclude Maintenance Visit
Often included in this process of concluding a visit are aspects of:
- Lessons learnt reviews, both internal facing and external facing. The
objective of these reviews, immaterial of the type, is to ensure that
aspects which could be improved is discussed and documented and that
corrective action plans are initiated.
- For a service provider, the lessons learnt review would include
aspects of:
- Reliability analysis
- Cost analysis, including earned value
- Duration and time spent against the various activities
- Turnaround time
- Non routine and emergent work trends
- Etc.
To support these type of reviews, historical records can be analyzed and
reviewed.
- Service order conclusion and transfer of transactions to generate the
required invoices etc.