ANK496 Aircraft Maintenance Management

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Objective: Knowledge about design and maintenance philosophies and their correlations to choose an optimal maintenance strategy. Maintenance management process for novel aircraft. Problems of aging aircraft. Knowledge of random phenomena influences the maintenance system.
Contents (lecture’s programme): Background of exploitation problems including operation and maintenance systems. Knowledge of historic and present aviation organizations, regulations and skills/tools of maintenance connecting with design process. Design and maintenance philosophies and correlations. Consideration of random phenomena as stochastic processes, random variables and events. Reliability and maintenance characterization. MSG 3 and Reliability Centered Maintenance – RCM methods in maintenance optimization. Authority regulations. International Civil Aviation Organization – ICAO, IATA, Polish Civil Aviation Authority - ULC, Federal Aviation Administration - FAA, Joint Aviation Administration - JAA, European Aviation Safety Agency - EASA, Certificate of Release to Service (CRS), CAMO, ATA, Standards And Recommended Practices – SARP, Joint Aviation Regulations - JAR, Certification Stardaryzations -CS, Part M, Part 145, Part 147, Part 66, Part-21. Maintenance task compiling. Maintenance Program – MP, Airworthiness Directives – AD, Service Bulletin, Type Certificate – TC, Supplementary Type Certificate – STC, Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition (CAME), Maintenance Organization Exposition (MOE), Maintenance Training Organization Exposition (MTOE), Life Limited Components– LLC, Corrosion Protection and Corrosion Prevention – CPCP, Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) Minimum Equipment List (MEL). Artificial intelligence. Non-Destructive Test (NDT) and Health Monitoring methods in diagnostics of novel aircraft.
Abilities: After completing this course the students will have skills to improve maintenance from safety and cost-effectiveness points of view
Assessment method: 100% assessment based on one project (in presentation form)
Prerequisites: Probabilistics. Basics of reliability and maintenance.