Maintenance program taskcards - An Example of Aircraft data enrichment and why it’s important
what is Aircraft data enrichment
Aircraft Data enrichment is the process of enhancing available aircraft data with relevant context from other sources. Data enrichment will ensure data validity and enhances data by adding relevant meta-data where possible. Additionally through this process common data standards will be introduced to ensure high data integrity and validity in the future.
data enrichment in engineering and maintenance
Within aviation engineering and maintenance, common area's that require data enrichment are:
Parts
Descriptions
ATA chapters
Material classes
Alternate parts
Order quantities
Dangerous good codes
Maintenance Findings
Validity – templating
Part consumption
Panel and zone information
Use of abbreviations.
Modifications
Taskcards
Maintenance worksteps
Hereby the Example and why it’s important
One of our clients just went live with their new MRO software system. EXSYN conducted the aircraft data migration and accompanied the client in cleaning up their data and introducing improved data standards. One of the major area’s to prepare for go-live was the enrichment of data for maintenance program task cards in the new MRO software system.
Based on the approved maintenance program of the airline, the basic information of each task was available. Such as task reference, title, effectivity and interval. However the new MRO software system uses maintenance program task data to create task cards with work instructions for engineers. Hence additional data was required such as aircraft panels affected, zone’s affected, required manhours, required tooling, required spare parts and AMM references. By adding OEM data sources such as the MPD, RSPL, AMM, IPC as well as historic performance data of each task all applicable additional meta data was identified and added for each task card in the maintenance program. This saved the engineering department to invest hundreds of manhours to manually enrich each task card based on their own engineering knowledge.