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Planning Switches

The Planning module brings together the Engineering, Technical Records, Operations Schedule and Inventory information into one place, which then feeds more information into the Production module. This allows complete interrogation of the information relating to aircraft and component work.

Aircraft or part checks, inspections, modifications and maintenance can be forecast, and work specifications produced online in real time.

Deferred Defects on the aircraft can be monitored within this module, along with all other aircraft related time controlled items.

Options in Planning include Aircraft Planning, which is the mainstay of the Planning module; this allows interrogation of the Planning information on-screen, in different formats according to the user’s requirement. Additional reporting is available to show costs, and to overlay the material requirements for planned items against current and proposed inventory. Full integration gives major benefits in this area, providing mix and match of the information from all the relevant modules to give an effective scheduling and project management tool. The graphical planning query provides a very high capability by overlaying aircraft flight schedules with the maintenance work packages taking into account the available manpower, hangar capacity and spares/tools availability.

The A/C Flight schedule can be entered on the system, this will allow the maximum accuracy when forecasting and when controlled items become due. (Schedules can be downloaded from other flight planning systems), otherwise average utilization is employed for the calculation of due dates.

Man-hour Schedules can be entered, such as shift patterns and weekly working patterns. This then provides information for capacity planning and allows employees to be ‘reserved’ against work to be performed. Site Capacity Planning can be carried out.

Configuration switches allow administrators to modify specific features. Each module contains its own set of switches which can be found via System/Explorer/System Transaction Configuration.