Life Cycle Approach to Aircraft Maintenance

Life Cycle Approach to Aircraft Maintenance

Introduction

Maintainability, reliability and supportability are considered to be significant elements in order to achieve a high quality and competitive product. In the process of designing and manufacturing, cost is a very important aspect which plays a vital role in the progression of the product. Operating quality and enhanced manufacturing and performance combined with reduction in cost produces a positive impact in achieving a continuous success and the maintenance of the company in the competitive market place for a long term. The initial phase of any product manufacturing is its designing which provides the highest opportunities to fulfill all the relative needs and result in establishing life cycle efficiency. The main purpose of Life Cycle approach to aircraft maintenance is to offer an integrated insight to maintainability, reliability, logistic support and maintenance analysis (Kumar, Crockerand Knezevic, 2010).



Discussion

Why Focus on Life Cycle Planning?

In order to improve the value and quality of the products, it is not only required to focus on the techniques that can enhance the design but it is also very important to focus on the aspects that must be involved o to make the product acceptable, profitable and most demanding in the market. In this existing situation, market is very competitive and it is not an easy task to compete in the market. The approach of life cycle maintenance provides significant ways of involving maintainability, reliability, and reliability. It not only helps in improving the performance of the product but it also helps in finding out more opportunities of sale. A business strategy theory is observed to be very useful to support the aviation researches by providing them a sense of existing competitive pressure faced by all the airlines globally. Strategy can be assumed as a hierarchy which represents the organizational framework of multidivisional companies in which the common direction is stated by the corporate strategy in terms of choice and scope of business field that are to be followed by the company (Lee, Maa, Thimm and Verstraeten, 2011). The business strategy is comprised of the effective plans that ensure the prosperity of the company in the competitive market place(Kumar, Crockerand Knezevic, 2010).. A low-cost airline or low-cost carrier refers to an airline that is comprised of less comforts and facilities with low cost. In order to generate revenue in low cost, these airlines also charge extra to provide food and beverages, baggage and seat allocating etc.

For implementing a life cycle approach in aircrafts the following main points must be significantly considered:

Introduce the ideas of maintainability, reliability and supportability and their effective roles and impact on the life cycle process and efficiency.

It is very important to introduce the statistical techniques and fundamental probability in order to model the aspects of maintainability, reliability and supportability.

Design some measures of reliability, the way to predict them, the way to determine them and the effective way to implement them.

Analyze the advanced models of reliability.

Discuss some advance and basic ideas in ...