Aircraft Maintenance Management Research Articles

A Comprehensive Review on the Global Aviation Industry and Aircraft Maintenance Management Processes

The vision of the Turkish Republic is to surpass the level of contemporary civilization, and one of the main principles to achieve this is "The future is in the skies." To make this a reality, it is imperative to establish a national and domestic aviation industry. The first step towards this goal is to ensure the safe operation of aircraft, which requires a maintenance management system. To create and use the necessary maintenance documents, an international standard management process should be followed for airframe manufacturers and component and part manufacturers in the aviation industry. Airline operators should then create their maintenance documentation according to this system and work with airplane maintenance organizations to ensure the airworthiness of their aircraft. This study discusses and evaluates the documents used within the essential management and organization principles framework, primarily focusing on the aircraft maintenance management system.

Analyzing the Critical Factors in Aircraft Maintenance That Affect Low-Cost Airlines in Thailand

This study offers an in-depth examination of salient factors pivotal to aircraft maintenance management. Through a rigorous statistical methodology, critical variables—namely, flexibility, cost control, and service quality and delivery—were discerned as cardinal elements in efficacious management within this domain.The constructed model demonstrated formidable statistical validity, solidifying its utility as a potent instrument for both evaluation and strategic guidance within the aviation milieu. The relative weights ascribed to each variable shed light on their hierarchical significance, furnishing actionable insights for organizations in their quest for operational enhancement. For the rigorous scrutiny and validation of such statistical models, a repertoire of goodness-of-fit indices is paramount. To this end, the current study leveraged a myriad of indices including the Comparative Fit Index (CFI), Goodness of Fit Index (GFI), Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI), Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA), Normed Fit Index (NFI), Incremental Fit Index (IFI), and Root Mean Square Residual (RMR).Nonetheless, it is prudent to recognize the potential variances in the weightages and salience of these variables across diverse organizational landscapes and contexts. This underscores the necessity for bespoke adaptations to cater to unique organizational exigencies. Cumulatively, this investigation augments the existing corpus of knowledge on aircraft maintenance management, proffering a robust quantitative scaffold for aviation entities to streamline operations, institute cost efficiencies, and uphold service excellence.

Aircraft Maintenance Management - An Analysis of Defect Trend for Maintenance of Aeroengine (Artouste III B)

Maintenance of Aeroengine plays a vital role in the Aircraft Maintenance Management. In this paper. an analysis of defect trend for maintenance of aeroengine (Artouste III B) has been carried out on premature withdrawals of ninety - one aeroengines (Artouste III B) fitted in Chetak / Cheetah helicopters under operation for a period of five years in the various parts of India. Based on the analysis, the trend of defects occurred has been established and the remedial measures are suggested to the manufacturer, overhaul agency and operators to prevent occurrence of such defects. Some of them are implemented in the form of mandatory modifications issued by Director General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) based on the Service Bulletins issued by the manufacturer.

Managing Aircraft Maintenance In Thailand For The Next Normal

Purpose: This article examines the direction of aircraft maintenance management in Thailand for the new era, emphasizing the importance of safety, efficiency, and international standard certification. Theoretical framework: Appropriate management of aircraft maintenance can pave the way for increased revenue and survival of airlines in the current situation. Design/methodology/approach: This article proposes management principles to improve the aircraft maintenance process in Thailand, with the primary goals of increasing work efficiency and reducing costs. Findings: Additionally, this article explores the improvement of laws and regulations related to aircraft maintenance in Thailand, considering their alignment with international standards and the prevention of environmental impacts. Research, Practical & Social implications: In conclusion, the management of aircraft maintenance in Thailand for the next era requires the ability to adapt to technology and scientific advancements to accommodate the increasing demands of the aviation industry. Providing training and skill development for employees in the aviation industry is crucial for achieving efficient and safe operations. Originality/value: Promoting collaboration between the public and private sectors in developing and improving the infrastructure supporting aircraft maintenance is another significant factor, particularly in the development of areas for Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) centers and the advancement of information networks in the aviation sector.

Planning and management of aircraft maintenance using a genetic algorithm

The aim of the article was to develop a tool to support the process of planning and managing aircraft (ac) maintenance. Aircraft maintenance management has been presented for scheduled technical inspections resulting from manufacturers’ technical documentation for ac. The authors defined the problem under investigation in the form of a four-phase decisionmaking process taking into account assignment of aircraft to airports and maintenance stations, assignment of crew to maintenance points, setting the schedules, i.e. working days on which aircraft are directed to maintenance facilities. This approach to the planning and management of aircraft maintenance is a new approach, unprecedented in the literature. The authors have developed a mathematical model for aircraft maintenance planning and management in a multi-criteria approach and an optimisation tool based on the operation of a genetic algorithm. To solve the problem, a genetic algorithm was proposed. The individual steps of the algorithm construction were discussed and its effectiveness was verified using real data.

THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ATTRIBUTES AND AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE EFFICIENCY IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRIES IN OMAN

The main purpose of the study is to investigate existing available literature for determining of relevant factors that have cause and effects on the ensuring of aircraft maintenance efficiency in the aviation industry in Oman. Therefore, the study uses available sources of existing literature based on the four main keywords ‘aircraft maintenance efficiency’, ‘aircraft maintenance and resource management attributes ‘or ‘effective planning and aircraft maintenance, and ‘internal control and aircraft maintenance, etc., and explored to covers from Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Scopus, and other online resources. The study also justified of above summary literature gap by the most relevant theories such as stakeholder, agency, and resource-based theories accordingly. Based on this extensive review, the study developed a conceptual framework, where effective planning and internal control have moderating role on the relationship between the resource management attributes and aircraft maintenance efficiency in the aviation industry in the sultanate of Oman. The summary review findings of the study will fill the gap in the existing body knowledge especially prime factors affecting the attainment of aircraft maintenance efficiency, resource management attributes, effective planning and ‘internal control and aircraft maintenance in the aviation industry in the sultanate of Oman. The study recommends to justify this conceptual framework by empirical data from the in the aviation industry in the sultanate of Oman and draw a policy guideline for ensuring of determining of relevant factors that have cause and effects on the ensuring of aircraft maintenance efficiency in the aviation industry in Oman.

Discussion on APS Theory of Aircraft Maintenance Management and Prevention of Human Error

One of the main purposes of maintenance management is to reduce human error and improve the safety of aircrafts. On May 2014, China Southern Airline puts forward the APS theory of Aircraft Maintenance Management. Data on large aircrafts collected since 2013, shows that due to the application of APS, the safety assurance of the aircrafts has steadily improved. In 2016, accidents caused by human were eliminated. This paper illustrates how APS ensures the safe operation and prevents human error.

The process of building the upper-level hierarchy for the aircraft structure ontology to be integrated in FunGramKB

In this article we collect a corpus of texts which operate with a controlled language (ASD Simplified Technical English) in order to facilitate the development of a new domain-specific ontology (the aircraft structure) based on a technical discipline (aeronautical engineering) included in the so called “hard” sciences. This new repository should be compatible with the Core Ontology and the corresponding English Lexicon in FunGramKB (a multipurpose lexico-conceptual knowledge base for natural language processing (NLP)), and, in the same vein, should eventually give support to aircraft maintenance management systems. By contrast, in previous approaches we applied a stepwise methodology for the construction of a domain-specific subontology compatible with FunGramKB systems in criminal law, but the high occurrence of terminological banalisation and the scarce number of specific terms, due to the social nature of the discipline, were added problems to the most common NLP difficulties (polysemy and ambiguity). Taking into consideration previous results and the complexity of this task, here we only intend to take the first step towards the modelling of the aircraft ontology: the development of its taxonomic hierarchy. Consequently, the hierarchy starts with the whole system (i.e., an aircraft) and follows the traditional decomposition of the system down to the elementary components (top-down approach). At the same time, we have collected a corpus of 2,480 files of aircraft maintenance instructions, courtesy of Airbus in Seville. For the bottom-up approach (under construction), we consult specialised references end explore the corpus through the identification and extraction of term candidates with DEXTER, an online multilingual workbench especially designed for the discovery and extraction of terms.

Separation and sequence solving maintenance problems aircraft

The problem of constructing mathematical model of aircrafts maintenance management task iscontemplated. This model should allow using modern computing facilities for its operative solving.The decomposition of efficient aircraft maintenance management task is described. This leads aproblem of mathematical model nonlinearity to the solution of three problems with linear structure,and thus allows applying combinatory methods, which give finite set of solutions together withpossibility of their reception in an admissible time, to their solution

Development of total logistics support management information system and its applications to the aerospace industry

This research is based on the concept of computer-aided acquisition and logistics support (CALS) information management methods, to establish the information interactive sharing relationship between aerospace industry, customers and sub-contractors, total logistics support (TLS) system is developed to provide the information platform for a variety of military aircraft maintenance management. As for the maintenance data record collection is used mainly to establish a database of advanced materials acquisition and other related information that can be inputted into maintenance data collection analysis system (MDCAS) and TLS for further utilising. This paper provides the overall applied benefits of TLS and the major applications are to access required information promptly, via data collection, storage, statistics, and analysis, and required information transfer so as to improve the integrated logistic ability of aerospace industry and enhance overall competence in logistics of military aircraft maintenance management.

Maintenance management system for a defence aircraft development programme

Design and development of a defence aircraft involves solving of multi disciplinary problems over the development lifecycle. The ground and flight tests evaluation play a crucial role during the certification of the aircraft. The observations from the field trials viz. reported failures and corrective actions taken are of immense value for the performance assessment of aircraft. In addition to the aircraft performance assessment and root cause analysis of the failures, the data from the field also facilitates to assess and refine the maintenance procedures. This paper brings out a conceptual model of computerised aircraft maintenance management system (CAMMS), which is a product lifecycle management (PLM) enabled enterprise–wide solution involving designers, maintenance planners, test pilots, flight test engineers, inspectors and certification agency. This supposed system will encapsulate a framework for failure reporting analysis and corrective action that shall assist in failure, reliability and maintainability analysis, aiding a tighter control on the schedule and budgetary escalation.

Development of an integrated information system for automated scheduling and control management in an aircraft maintenance plant

This paper is to develop an integrated information platform of aircraft maintenance management (AMM) for optimisation of scheduling planning and control management in aircraft maintenance plant of an aircraft manufacturer. The AMM is offering the environments which maintenance resources are shared and improve the production control, and as a result enhance the competitiveness of the whole aircraft production and maintenance management. The scheduling problems adopt an iterated greedy algorithm to solve the problem and find an optimised solution. Aircraft maintenance management information system with all updated electronisation maintenance records, and the application of logistic engineering analysis also improves the efficiency of the whole aircraft production and maintenance management. The beneficial effect on striving for fleet management and maintenance business will be founded in the future for aircraft maintenance plant. In this paper, we provided the applications of the AMM and the advantages are presented in the conclusions.

Applying a new Communication Technique among Agents in Hospital Management System

Multi Agent System (MAS) play a central role in the field of distributed artificial intelligence. MAS' applications go from electronic commerce, aircraft maintenance and business process management to e mail filtering. One of the important features in Multi Agent System is the communication among agent. The communication methods enable cooperation and coordination of agents in the system. The standard and important one is the Contract Net Protocol. Also, Round Contract method is created to overcome the limitations of Contract Net Protocol. This paper proposed a new communication technique among agents in MAS. This technique combines the advantages of both previous methods and avoids their disadvantages. All these techniques are applied To Hospital Management System that uses Multi Agents Systems. There is a comparison among these methods according to their performance.

Maintenance of aircraft in varying degrees of certainty parameter mathematical model automated

The problem of making decisions on aircraft maintenance (aircraft maintenance) using a mathematical model of aircraft maintenance management for planning and management (correction) in the presence of incoming information is seen as suf-PHA, as well as such key whose parameters are uncertain

Task network-based project dynamic scheduling and schedule coordination

The resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is an extensively explored area. The existing RCPSP solutions tend to focus on single project scheduling problems without practical supports to address complex constraints, dynamic environments, and multi-project schedule coordination. This paper proposes a dynamic project scheduling algorithm based on partial task network heuristics. This algorithm takes time constraints, resource constraints, and particularly the changing task execution status into consideration. To coordinate conflicting schedules of multiple projects, we proposed an interactive decision support process and developed new algorithms for conflict detection, conflict resolution, and impact analysis. The proposed algorithms have been fully implemented and tested in a web-based aircraft maintenance management system and are being applied in construction for project scheduling and facilities maintenance management.

Organizacije za održavanje zrakoplova prema JAR-u 145

The paper deals with the issues of aircraft maintenance management per JAR 145. The introduction of JAR 145 has set the requirement for European airlines to adjust to the new system of maintenance and issuance of certificates on completed servicing as required by the Joint Airworthiness Requirements. From JAR 145 standards originate the requirements for personnel and equipment in compliance with ISO 9002, management aspects and types of servicing.