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Industry : Aerospace & Defense 

Sub-Industry : MRO 

Line of Business : Engine MRO / Landing Gear / Component MRO

Business Background : 

  1. Parts (E.g. Blade, Fan, Bushings) removed from large assembly (E.g. Engine, Landing Gear, APU) are subjected to cleaning and inspection process, post which the repair actions will be determined. This will be captured against the part by the Engineering / Team in the form of Component Job cards and Inspection forms.
  2. Detailed inspection procedures are carried out stringently by recording the measurements of applicable parameters msuch as inner diameter, outer diameter, length, width, thickness..] and validated with standard values / limits that are prescribed the manufacturers in their maintenance manuals (embedded within work instructions).
  3. Mechanics, Technicians record the measurements of the parts subjected to inspection and validated with the standard limits and report the outcome as to whether the reported values are within the standard limits (or) out of limits.
  4. Subject to the review, if the reported value is out of standard limits, shop inspector will recommend the applicable repair procedures for work execution to restore the part back to its serviceable condition.

Business Pain Points :

  1. Measurement of the parts to record the parameter attributes (thickness, width, diameter, fits, clearances) etc. are carried out manually outside the application resulting in zero traceability and tracking. 
  2. Based on the standard limits (Max / Min) data conditions, user needs to analyze the (measured) entered value manually and declare the outcome for each and every part. This results in lot of manual effort, time and more importantly subject to human errors. 
  3. Increase in process time, TAT between Engineering (Policy Makers), Shop Floor Mechanics (Reporters) and Shop Floor Inspectors (Reviewers). Challenges in workflow interactions. 
  4. Lack of measurement template for parts results as a blocker for continuous improvement process as they would not be able to learn from past work execution experience and rectify in the next occurrence.  
  5. One of the key hurdle to achieve  the vision of digitalization, paperless shop floor operations.
  6. Results in poor reporting and analysis.

   

 

Hi Johnny,

It is possible to record multilple measurements per MRO Shop Order Operation by attaching that operation to a Manufacturing Control Plan.

The user can set Manufacturing Control Plans to mandatory, ensuring no operation is closed without registering measurements in a Control Plan Analysis. If the measurements are Out of Specification, a Non Conformance Report can be generated to schedule & execute a corrective action.

If the user wishes to register measurements while receiving the engine prior to disassembly, a Purchasing Control Plan can be set up. These inspection results and measurements are captured from the Arrival Receipt screen as part of the Control Plan Analysis.

Do let me know if you have more questions - Thanks!

Sayeef

This is the established practice in MRO business. Suggested solution seems sensible and feasible. Should try and see.

Hi @Johny HP 

Happy to help you by providing some insights that we use in MRO.

As I can see that, most of your pain points related to quality department w.r.t measurements and etc. In IFS, you can use part “Characteristics” to define attributes which could show your inspectors to update those details in ‘Disposition Shop Order’ level.

Further, you can control and alert using custom events linking those custom attributes.

Hope this might help you.

 

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