Industry : Aerospace & Defense
Sub-Industry : MRO
Line of Business : Engine MRO / Landing Gear / Component MRO
Business Background :
- 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.
- Detailed inspection procedures are carried out stringently by recording the measurements of applicable parameters [such 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).
- 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.
- 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 :
- 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.
- 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.
- Increase in process time, TAT between Engineering (Policy Makers), Shop Floor Mechanics (Reporters) and Shop Floor Inspectors (Reviewers). Challenges in workflow interactions.
- 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.
- One of the key hurdle to achieve the vision of digitalization, paperless shop floor operations.
- Results in poor reporting and analysis.
