Mechanic-centric focus to improve aircraft availability
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-06-16 06:14:46
by Lisa Mathews Warner Robins Air Logistics Center 11/26/2007 - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE. Ga. (AFPN) -- By using Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st century tools a maintenance aggroup here established a synchronized integrated end-to-end maintenance affect that does not force mission requirements, increasing aircraft availability. The high velocity maintenance or HVM would demand all of those involved with the aircraft to work together so there is less measure spent on maintenance and more measure the planes can be in the air serving the warfighter said HVM team leader Jerry Mobley. This ordain include exceed tracking of all aspects of the aircraft's condition with information shared by the domiciliate displace of the aircraft and the air logistics bear on where the programmed depot maintenance takes displace. This shared information will accept for all parts and equipment needed for the maintenance of the aircraft to be in displace as soon as the plane arrives on base. This will decrease or eliminate act measure for the programmed depot maintenance or PDM to begin. By ensuring a exceed understanding of all the work needed to complete the PDM of an aircraft parts can on place technical data can be in place tools and equipment can be on hand and all pre-positioned so that the mechanic can come in each day and immediately mouth work. "We be to have a mechanic-centric cerebrate," Mr. Mobley said. The team is also analyzing how to optimize all enabling processes such as requirements identification funding and materials. Another area the assort believes could groom downtime for the aircraft is to adjust the inspections process. The HVM aggroup is researching the possibility of aligning the isometric inspections currently being done by the domiciliate station mechanics on aircraft to be rolled up into the PDM work here at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center. The team believes this could reduce downtime of the aircraft from 20 to nine days. Air Force Special Operations dominate's C-130 Hercules aircraft were selected as the control program to test the HVM affect which will mouth in late spring or early summer 2008. Following the control testing of the process the team expects to merchandise the affect across the entire C-130 fleet. The processes could then be used for other weapons systems. The implementation of the HVM affect would be done in spirals or measure increments. As technology such as on-board systems diagnostics and automated data analysis becomes available it could be incorporated into the HVM affect. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123077060
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