The privacy and compliance team at MRO leads several initiatives, working groups, and training for the entire organisation to promote compliance.
FREMONT, CA: Along with other associations, the European Asian Safety Administration (EASA) recognised the threat to aviation maintenance efficiency and profitability led a coalition to resolve the problem and since then kept the pressure on the agencies to make workable solutions.
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The safety of passengers is what motivates regulation in the commercial aviation sector, and the objective is to govern how aircraft are maintained to assure that safety. Regulations are essential for safety reasons, of course, but they are also necessary to prevent the cost of upkeep from unreasonably deterring people from maintaining their assets.
A constant balancing act must be performed between the expense of maintenance and the desired degree of safety because maintaining aircraft costs money. Commercial airlines would prefer to reduce the amount of time their aircraft is being serviced because they need to keep their aircraft in service and increase their service hours.
The Process of MRO Compliance
Maintenance standards, schedules, and plans—which are often outlined in OEM maintenance manuals—are where compliance begins. The OEM develops both the specifications for the service and the product. Ideas regarding how frequently parts need to be cleaned, greased, calibrated, etc. are established. The need of doing routine maintenance on landing gear brakes, for instance, cannot be stressed because they experience severe wear over time similar to brake pads in an automobile.
These MRO requirements, however, are not constant. The need for aircraft is evolving. Aircraft directives and service bulletins are continuously released. Maintaining the cross-reference between the aircraft's configuration requirements, maintenance requirements, and the current maintenance job catalogue is therefore a crucial, important responsibility.
Due to the requirement of MRO compliance, documentation is important to ensure that these changing processes have been carried out correctly. This includes maintaining accurate records of the aircraft's inspection, maintenance work, reassembly, and testing. Additionally, documentation is required to prove that the technicians used for the service were qualified and certified and that the tools they used were the necessary tools. The documentation specifications are stringent. They are intended to guarantee that all work is completed in accordance with the most recent standards and that nothing is overlooked.
Streamlining the Process of MRO Compliance
Today, many establishments still use a lot of paperwork, such as paper to track configuration control, recordkeeping, items installed, removed, disposed of, and so on. Dealing with such paper-based operations requires a large amount of time. Given that all MRO procedures take more time than they should and cause aircraft to be out of service, there are several options to cut expenses. Every additional day that a plane spends in the hangar for maintenance is a day that it is not in the air. Therefore, there is a strong incentive to shorten the cycle time.
