Planning Aircraft Revisions Based on Work Session Records

On Friday 27th October speaker Bogdan Kostov held an Open Mic session with the topic "Planning Aircraft Revisions Based on Work Session Records.". Video and presentation included.

The abstract

In order to operate aircraft safely maintenance is required [1]. During aircraft maintenance the mechanics investigate the state of the aircraft and replace worn or damaged parts and equipment in order to reduce the risk of failure during operation. Aircraft maintenance in civil aviation is organized in maintenance blocks or revisions which are packages of maintenance tasks. How often which task should be performed is specified in aircraft maintenance manuals (AMM) provided by the aircraft manufacturer. An aircraft revision could contain hundreds of non trivial maintenance tasks. Therefore, planning of aircraft revisions is not an easy task and it might lead to inadequate deadline predictions. In order to learn and improve from previous aircraft revisions maintenance companies document aircraft revisions. This presentation will be on the topic of automated planning of aircraft revisions based on historical work session records. This includes describing the analysis of the input data, i.e. the work session records, the current algorithm to schedule tasks automatically and validation of created schedules.

The discussion about evaluation is also part of the record.

The presentation slides are available at this link.

Further reading:

[1] Aircraft Maintenance, including refrences to international standards