Having completed a number of reliability courses on behalf of Sofema, and advised on reliability programme development, the author is frequently asked about the challenge of low levels of reliability data, and whether there are enough data points in order to produce an adequate analysis. The biggest concern amongst reliability engineers is a somewhat thorny…

Until recently, Safety Management was considered almost devolved from all but flight operations, with reliability only concerning itself with operational metrics like ‘Despatch Reliability’. Nowadays, the introduction of other reliability metrics that are designed to project wear-out or failure rates has begun to address the requirement for Reliability to demonstrate Maintenance programme effectiveness. The question…

The reader will undoubtedly know, that the Approved Maintenance Programme or AMP, resembles a ‘bible’ of ‘Task Orientated’ aircraft maintenance around the eight tasks as required under MSG-3 (See opposite), with these tasks then categorized into three distinct areas: Aircraft Systems Structural Items Zonal   All regulators require some form of Continuing Analysis & Surveillance…