Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) considers the roles and responsibilities of a CAMO Maintenance Planning Engineering Function
Introduction
The Continuous Airworthiness Management Organization “CAMO” is essentially responsible for 4 primary functions Planning, Technical Records, Engineering, and Reliability, these groups work together to ensure that the Aircraft remains fully compliant with all requirements concerning aircraft maintenance management and associated oversight.
Within the CAMO the Maintenance Planning, Technical Records, Engineering & Reliability groups work together to ensure that the aircraft remains fully compliant with all requirements concerning the aircraft maintenance management and associated oversight.
Within the CAMO department, the Maintenance Planning Group has a range of responsibilities including
Fixed Workload
- The delivery of the aircraft maintenance work package
- To ensure the aircraft remains fully compliant with the Maintenance Program.
- Does not fluctuate rather it is based on the MPD”
Variable Workload
- Driven by: ADs, Modifications (Mods), Service Bulletins (SBs), and Deferred Defects.
- Very “Ad Hoc” in nature!!
- The activities contribute an additional dimension that complicates the planning process.
Together with the fixed workload, there is an associated and variable workload driven by Airworthiness Directives (ADs), Modifications (Mods), Service Bulletins (SBs), and Deferred Defects.
Because of the “Ad Hoc” nature of the activities, an additional dimension is added which complicates the planning process.
It becomes more challenging for the planning process both in terms of maintenance planning and production planning.
The variability of the work required by ad hoc task(s), can in some cases be very significant
Result:
Repercussions which impact other elements of the maintenance activity.
How to deal with the Ad-hoc activities
Draw on additional expertise provided by Engineering or Technical Services departments.
Create a Support Group.
Typical Duties
- Review the content of the proposed activity
- Determine:
– the required tooling and equipment
– the various steps which have to be performed
How to deal with ADs
It is mandatory that we comply fully with the requirements of the directive.
Sometimes the compliance requires a detailed understanding of the component configuration within the aircraft system.
For this reason, it is usual to involve a technical expert group.
The more detailed the planning,
the more effective will be the performance of the task.
*** There is a trade-off ***
The time we allow ourselves to analyze the task and prepare detailed accomplishment instructions has to be weighed against:
• the size of the task and
• the number of times the task is going to be performed across the fleet.
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AD Hoc, Aircraft Maintenance Planning, CAMO, Reliability, SAS blogs, Technical Records
