Delivering Aircraft Production Planning

MRO and 145 organizations are required to have a Production Planning function, however this could in fact be delivered as a sub department of Base Maintenance. Developing a Stand alone Production Planning Department may provide significant benefits in the management of the maintenance process. The Production Planning department provides (if fully utilized) a key opportunity…

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Aviation Quality Management and Auditing

With the introduction of the new EASA requirements for Air Operators, together with the forthcoming requirements applicable to Part M, Part 145 & Part 21 the term ‘Compliance Monitoring’ is being used to describe the primary function of Quality Manager, indeed the role definition is also changed typically to be know as the “Compliance Manager”…

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Aviation Safety Management System SMS – Update 2014

Driven by the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO Safety Management Systems are being implemented as a Compliance Driven requirement, however SMS is a performance based system, whereby the objective is to deliver organisational safety at a lever as low as reasonably practical ALARP. The last 30 years have seen changes in the  aviation industry understanding…

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