Application Of Lean Project Management In The Aircraft Inspection And Maintenance Program

The year 2008 global economic crisis brought about a crisis awareness in civil aviation maintenance enterprises and more fierce competition situation.T company aim for improvement in maintenance projects management techniques,through optimization of organizational structures and work processes,and provision of more efficient service for customers to reduce the maintenance costs and the presence time,improving aircraft utilization.This goal is accomplished through a combination of lean management,reasonable scientific compression fixed maintenance ground time.This thesis takes the Boeing B777 aircraft maintenance project as a case study,to analyze civil aircraft maintenance project scheduling problems and put forward solutions.Research contents include:the application of project management theory and methods,establishment of a complete project work breakdown structure onto work package to determine the task sequence and responsibility by using project management software,establishment of aircraft maintenance project schedule and the critical path.Task construction method of using waterfall structure,with lean management concept as the starting point to crash the project duration to meet customer requirements.During the inspection process on the aircraft,resources are optimized and made rational use.And finally,communication and information technology are applied with lean management to ensure the project progress under control.The results show that the model combined with critical path method,resource constraint plan and lean management is an effective mode to guarantee the schedule control of aircraft inspection and maintenance program.