Engineering and Technical Operations

The Challenge

Airline engineering and technical operations departments typically manage formal aircraft maintenance programs for all of the fleets operated. The duties of these groups involve such activities as:

• Assuring and being able to demonstrate that all maintenance requirements are being met by the maintenance program
• Creating, revising, and managing task cards
• Managing conflicts that arise because of changes to source documents such as the AMM
• Grouping work tasks into logical packages
• Publishing task cards and other data for use by end users and external systems

The Solution

InfoTrust offers a body of products and services that can provide an airline’s engineering and technical operations groups with a fully digital environment for technical data management, revision, approval, and publishing.

TechSight/X facilitates technical operations and engineering management by providing these main functions:

• Management of maintenance programs
• Management of maintenance requirements
• Authoring task cards, EOs, and EAs
• Content reuse
• Source content conflict management for documents such as the AMM
• Publishing data for use by other systems
• Work packaging
• Generation of dynamic open/close cards
• Generation of dynamic work packaging reports
• Integration of a maintenance planning/production control system

TechSight/X can be used to manage the following document types:

• Routine task cards, nonroutine task cards, and component change cards
• EOs and EAs
• OEM MPDs
• MRB documents
• Airline maintenance planning documents
• Service bulletins
• Airworthiness directives

The Benefits