Sofema Aviation Services provides a 2 day training on Developing an Effective Reliability Program.
Driven by EU OPS The Operator is required to have a policy on how to deal with Repetitive Defects.
A typical procedure could be for example require that after 3 failed attempts at trouble shooting a defect in a period of 7 to 10 days an in depth action should be taken.
This could be for example to take the aircraft out of service or to allocate specific resources with the necessary competence to manage the troubleshooting of the defect.
This procedure could be varied based on utilization where a lower level of Utilization would require that after 3 failed attempts at trouble shooting a defect in a period of 1 month an in depth action should be taken.
Some organisations use a Maintenance Control Centre (MCC) to manage all outstanding defects including Repetitive Defects. The MCC may also control all follow up activities including the provision of labour or other Material resources.
Such a focused approach often leads to follow-up work and rectification of deferred defects at every opportunity, including the planning of spares for defect repairs at outstations where suitable ground time is available.
By monitoring repetitive defects, the Maintenance Control Centre are able to ensure that trouble shooting and rectification actions are done before any loss of scheduled operation.
In addition this approach provides a structured and logical action plan for all such defects to prevent duplication of effort and unnecessary wastage of spare parts and time.
Specialist systems support is usually available to provide Technical Support to the maintenance Department in respect for example for major modification programmes or for specific requests on Aircraft System.
As fully described in the 2 day training Developing an Effective Reliability Program – Monitoring and reviewing the defect history Specialist systems engineers are able to assist in the process of identifying repetitive defects on Aircraft Systems and providing trouble-shooting/rectification information whenever requested in order to assist in routine and special aircraft defect analysis.
In addition the systems engineer is responsible for the following
To inform the management on upcoming significant technical issues, and to Liaise with the various vendors and to monitor the Modification status of the fleet To assess reliability an consider appropriate organization stratergy to develop product improvement modifications.
To Analyze the reliability trends and in liaison with manufacturers /OEMs, provide recommendations to improve Technical Dispatch Reliability of the fleet.
To Liaise with various vendors and to monitor the Modification status of the fleet by developing product improvement modifications.
Analysis of Aircraft Systems reliability trend and issue Reliability Airframe Form (RAF) in order to restore the performance of system and component MTBUR.
