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Dynamic aircraft maintenance management system

  • US 6,442,459 B1
  • Filed: 12/01/2000
  • Issued: 08/27/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for enabling an operator to dynamically manage maintenance of an aircraft, the system comprising:

  • a program manager system for extracting maintenance tasks from aircraft maintenance publications, and for guiding the formation of maintenance tasks groups;

    a tracking manager system for monitoring accumulated usage data of the aircraft, and for identifying maintenance due tasks and maintenance due task groups from the respective maintenance tasks and maintenance task groups for which a difference between the control point and the accumulated usage data is less than a user-defined critical value; and

    a production manager system for generating and implementing a dynamic maintenance flow chart which details scheduling data for each individual task of the maintenance due tasks and maintenance due task groups, the production manager system continually updating the maintenance flow chart to reflect current system data.

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