How to achieve aircraft availability in the MRO&U triad

How to achieve aircraft availability in the MRO&U triad

Kaelen, J.W.E.N.

Santema, S.C. (promotor)

Industrial Design Engineering

PIM

2014-10-28

The financial crisis and the introduction of low-budget companies have brought major changes to the air freight community. Competition became stronger and cost control became more important. This led to new ways of organizing aircraft Maintenance, Repair, Overhauls and Upgrades (MRO&U), which became performance oriented. For the triad of participants in the maintenance process, the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the maintainers and the operator, this meant that they had to change their way of working, their processes and their culture. The focus shifted to delivering performance i.e. aircraft availability. The objective of the current research is to contribute to the development of a theory on how to achieve the performance objective aircraft availability as outcome of the MRO&U triad collaboration. This qualifies the current research as a theory building research. The outcome of the present research is a model on how to improve and optimize aircraft availability as outcome of collaboration in the aircraft MRO&U triad. This model on how to improve aircraft availability in the MRO&U process contributes to the increase of the turn-over per aircraft and hence the financial performance of airliners, as well as to the optimization of the MRO&U process. This research is therefore of interest for airline operators, aircraft maintainers and aircraft OEM’s.

aircraft
maintenance
optimization
MRO&U
collaboration
performance

https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:9bb17c02-80c4-4e2a-917b-6b3eed182132

9789088919701

Institutional Repository

doctoral thesis

(c) 2014 Kaelen, J.W.E.N.