Method and apparatus for creating and updating maintenance plans of an aircraft
First Claim
1. An aircraft maintenance monitoring system, comprising:
- a maintenance plan unit to receive a maintenance document describing maintenance requirements and an update document describing an update to one of the maintenance requirement, the maintenance plan unit to generate maintenance plans when the maintenance documents are received and to generate updated maintenance plans by automatically updating the maintenance plans that are affected by the update when the update document is received, a repository to store the maintenance plans and the updated maintenance plans, the maintenance plans being linked to the related updated maintenance plans.
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Abstract
An aircraft maintenance monitoring system is provided. The maintenance system monitors the operator'"'"'s compliance with various technical and safety requirements imposed by various entities such as regulatory agencies, manufacturers, operators, and the like. The maintenance monitoring system provides a data structure that configures various technical objects and maintenance tasks in a hierarchical tree using object links. Such a data structure provides dynamics and flexibility to the aircraft maintenance monitoring system. This, in turn, allows updates to be automatically incorporated to the existing maintenance plans and maintenance schedule without any duplicate operations.
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1. An aircraft maintenance monitoring system, comprising:
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a maintenance plan unit to receive a maintenance document describing maintenance requirements and an update document describing an update to one of the maintenance requirement, the maintenance plan unit to generate maintenance plans when the maintenance documents are received and to generate updated maintenance plans by automatically updating the maintenance plans that are affected by the update when the update document is received, a repository to store the maintenance plans and the updated maintenance plans, the maintenance plans being linked to the related updated maintenance plans. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for updating maintenance plans, comprising:
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generating a plurality of maintenance plans related to one or more aircraft components receiving a maintenance plan update, determining an aircraft component to which the update is relevant;
identifying a maintenance plan that is related to the aircraft component that is affected by the update;
updating the affected maintenance plan automatically according to the update. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. A method of updating a maintenance schedule, comprising:
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generating a plurality of maintenance plans related to one or more aircraft components, one or more of the plurality of maintenance plans having a maintenance schedule for a routine inspection;
receiving a maintenance schedule update related to one of the maintenance plans;
determining which of the aircraft component concerns the update and which of the maintenance plans that are related to the aircraft component concerning the update are affected by the update;
updating the maintenance schedule of the affected maintenance plans. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. Computer readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed, cause an application to:
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generate a plurality of maintenance plans related to one or more aircraft components, receive an update to one of the plurality of maintenance plans, determine which of the aircraft component concerns the update and which of the maintenance plans that are related to the aircraft component concerning the update are affected by the update;
update the affected maintenance plans automatically according to the update. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. Computer readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed, cause an application to:
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generate a plurality of maintenance plans related to one or more aircraft components, one or more of the plurality of maintenance plans having a maintenance schedule for a routine inspection;
receive a maintenance schedule update related to one of the maintenance plans;
determine which of the aircraft component concerns the update and which of the maintenance plans that are related to the aircraft component concerning the update are affected by the update; and
update the maintenance schedule of the affected maintenance plans. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. A method for a computer system providing aircraft maintenance support, comprising:
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responsive to a maintenance plan update, creating a maintenance plan object identifying an aircraft component affected by the update and parameters representative of new maintenance procedures to be performed, storing the maintenance plan object, identifying previously stored maintenance plan objects related to the aircraft component, deactivating any previously stored maintenance plan objects that are supported by the created maintenance plan objects. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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