What do Delta TechOps, Lufthansa Technik, the Navy’s Cherry Point Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) and the Air Force’s Ogden Air Logistics Center (ALC) have in common? They have adopted critical chain business rules and use Realization’s critical chain project management (CCPM) software.
mechanics don’t like this counterintuitive approach at first, projects get done faster because labor and materials are used more efficiently. Critical chain also means staggering projects and constantly evaluating tasks, based on metrics such as time buffer consumption vs. degree of completion. Delta TechOps’ Engines and Components unit was the first
F
TechOps group to work with Concerto, Realization’s project management software. In the period from 2006—before the Realization engagement began—to 2008 the group’s engine turnaround times (TATs) decreased by an average of 30 percent and engine production increased by 23 percent, thanks in part to the CCPM technology.
or an MRO running behind schedule, critical chain might mean roping off all of the airplanes in the hangar except the most urgent ones and finishing those first. Although
Realization says real-time synchronization is to projects what just-in-time was to manufacturing. It helps projects get done faster by making sure the required resources, inputs and decisions are available when needed - which cannot be achieve through “static” Gantt schedules.
Aviation Maintenance |
avm-mag.com | February / March 2012 25
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53