One of the causes of aviation accidents is lack of overview and analysis of the data particularly obtained from its maintenance operation performance. The aircraft maintenance system of an airline is a complex structure with information flow involving various stakeholders ensuring aircraft airworthiness while adhering to several regulatory standards, policies and procedures of Federal Aviation ...

Aircraft market values are influenced by a host of determinants, and key among them is its maintenance status. Maintenance status is directly linked to maintenance value and, depending on the age of the aircraft, can account for a significant portion of a modern aircraft’s market value. However, the impact of maintenance status is rarely constant. Similar to aircraft values, maintenance status ...

Research and development related to human factors in aviation has traditionally focused on the pilot and the cockpit. However, recent reports have attributed 18% of all accidents to maintenance factors. The aircraft inspection/maintenance system is a complex one with many interrelated human and machine components. The linchpin of the system is however, the human. Since it is difficult to elimin...

The advancement of technology is ramping up the pace digitization and automation aircraft maintenance activities, with that, stakeholders’ interest in high-level has also increased over past few years. Thus, to stay relevant market capable competing, Aircraft Maintenance Overhaul (MRO) companies must reshape adapt newer methodologies enhance enrich quality aviation after-sales services. Operati...

American Airlines currently operates in excess of 550 aircraft and flies over 2200 scheduled flights a day to over 160 destinations worldwide. Maintenance planning in a route network of American's magnitude is a complex, decision-intensive task that is managed at the Maintenance Operations Center (MOC) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The employees in this center are responsible for planning all maintenance...

The safety and reliability of air transportation depends on minimizing inspection and maintenance errors that occur in the aircraft maintenance system. Efforts have been invested to track maintenance errors. These efforts are reactive in nature: they analyze maintenance errors after their occurrence. There is a lack of standardization in the assessment of maintenance errors across the maintenan...

The paper will provide a lifecycle cost-benefit analysis of the use of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) systems and a conditioned-based maintenance (CBM) concept in future aircraft. The proposed methodology is based on a discrete-event simulation for aircraft operation and maintenance and uses an optimization algorithm for the planning and scheduling of CBM tasks. In the study, a 150seat...

The current maintenance system of the national defense industry shall be schemed to complete and establish an integrated logistics support management system of the military aircraft commercial maintenance in the future, so as to provide a main information link system that carry out the military maintenance businesses. The methods of maintenance data collect and work orders release base on Maint...