Aviation Maintenance Management

This unique resource covers aircraft maintenance program development and operations from a managerial as well as technical perspective. Readers will learn how to save money by minimizing aircraft downtime and slashing maintenance and repair costs by increasing maintenance standards.

• Plan and control maintenance
• Coordinate activities of the various work centers
• Establish an initial maintenance program
• Develop a systems concept of maintenance
• Identify and monitor maintenance problems and trends

Table of contents:

• Part I: Fundamentals of Maintenance
  • Chapter 1: Why We Have to Do Maintenance
  • Chapter 2: Development of Maintenance Programs
  • Chapter 3: Definitions, Goals, and Objectives
  • Chapter 4: Aviation Industry Certification Requirements
  • Chapter 5: Documentation for Maintenance
  • Chapter 6: Requirements for a Maintenance Program
  • Chapter 7: The Maintenance and Engineering Organization
• Part II: Technical Support
  • Chapter 8: Engineering
  • Chapter 9: Production Planning and Control
  • Chapter 10: Technical Publications
  • Chapter 11: Technical Training
  • Chapter 12: Computer Support
• Part III: Maintenance and Material Support
  • Chapter 13: Line Maintenance (on-Aircraft)
  • Chapter 14: Hangar Maintenance (on-Aircraft)
  • Chapter 15: Maintenance Overhaul Shops (off-Aircraft)
  • Chapter 16: Material Support
• Part IV: Oversight Functions
  • Chapter 17: Quality Assurance
  • Chapter 18: Quality Control
  • Chapter 19: Reliability
  • Chapter 20: Maintenance Safety
• Part V: Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Systems Engineering
  • Appendix B: Human Factors in Maintenance
  • Appendix C: The Art and Science of Troubleshooting
  • Appendix D: Investigations of Reliability Alerts
  • Appendix E: Extended Range Operations (ETOPS)
  • Appendix F: Glossary
• Index

About the Author:

Harry A. Kinnison, Ph.D., worked for the Boeing Company for 20 years, 10 as a specialist in the Maintenance and Ground Operations Systems Group of the Customer Services Organization. Specifically, he represented Boeing to airlines on the ETOPS (extended-range twin-engine operations) program, participated in airline maintenance evaluations, and helped airlines develop reliability programs. Since his retirement from Boeing in 2000, he has taught aviation maintenance management courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. He developed this book because no suitable text for courses such as his existed.

Softcover, 300 pages.