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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"aircraft maintenance"”.
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Optimal scheduling of fighter aircraft maintenance
The effective scheduling of fighter aircraft maintenance in the Air Force is crucial to overall mission accomplishment. An effective maintenance scheduling policy maximizes the use of maintenance resources and aircraft availability. Currently, maintenance scheduling is a time consuming process that …
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Secure Aircraft Maintenance Records Using Blockchain (SAMR)
… to enhance the security and transparency of aircraft maintenance records in the aviation industry through the use of blockchain technology. A physical aircraft maintenance logbook is susceptible to being lost or destroyed. A nonexistent aircraft maintenance logbook hurts the confidence in …
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Aircraft Maintenance Engineering : developing Aircraft Maintenance Programme using Reliability Centred Maintenance / MSG3 analysis and taking into consideration ETOPs and low utilisation
The thesis is entitled "Aircraft Maintenance Engineering: Developing an Aircraft Maintenance Programme using Reliability Centred Maintenance/ MSG3 Analysis Taking into Consideration ETOPS and Low Utilisation", It brings together and explains an area that the author feels is not well documented or …
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Technology Acceptance of Virtual Reality for Aircraft Maintenance Training
… Virtual Reality (VR) technology acceptance for aircraft maintenance training by student mechanics. The study employed a survey methodology using the extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as the theoretical framework. Participants were student mechanics from Federal Aviation Administration …
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Managerial factors affecting aircraft maintenance : an agent based model and optimization with simulated annealing
… based model of managerial factors affecting aircraft maintenance was build based on a case study done regarding safety climate's effect on maintenance efficacy in the Korean Air Force. In particular the model measures the effect of managerial context and command on agents' motivation and …
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Safety Climate and Safety Outcomes in Aircraft Maintenance: A Mediating Effect of Employee Turnover and Safety Motivation
Aircraft maintenance is viewed as a critical safety component in general and military aviation industries, and thus it is crucial to identify the factors that may affect aircraft maintenance. Because the safety climate is considered as a leading indicator of safety performance and safety outcomes, …
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A study of reliability centered aircraft maintenance and opportunities for application by the United States Coast Guard
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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The Taiwan Civil Aviation Safety Reporting (TACARE) System in Aircraft Maintenance: An Evaluation of the Acceptance of Voluntary Incident Reporting Programs for Maintenance Personnel in Taiwan
… Aviation safety reporting (TACARE) system for maintenance personnel to improve aircraft safety. The research evaluated what are the issues that affect the participation of the TACARE system. The understandings of the safety culture for maintenance personnel in Taiwan were also analyzed. The …
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An examination of computer anxiety related to achievement on paper-and-pencil and computer-based aircraft maintenance knowledge testing of United States Air Force technical training students.
… respective mean computer-based or paper-based aircraft maintenance knowledge testing scores. The research population consisted of United States Air Force aircraft maintenance craftsmen students attending training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. The fourth chapter details the findings of the …
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A Summative Evaluation of FlightSafety International's Computer Assisted Instruction known as "Principles of Troubleshooting"
… (POT) educational course improved aircraft fault diagnostic ability in aircraft maintenance trainees. Sixty randomly chosen Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) students served as control and experimental subjects with the POT course as the independent variable. Because …
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Development and Application of an Automated “Scan to Plan” System for Precision Paint Ablation Using LiDAR and Laser Cameras on Robotic Arms
… presents an innovative approach to automating aircraft maintenance processes,particularly in paint and coating removal. It introduces a “Scan to Plan” system that combines LiDAR scanning and laser cameras with robotic arms for precision paint ablation. The work emphasizes the development of a …
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Noise and Time Pressure Effects on Situation Awareness and Aviation Maintenance Tasks
<p>Aircraft maintenance technicians (AMTs) working in a line maintenance work setting are very susceptible to the deafening occupational noise from the airport vicinity or the maintenance machinery itself. Compared to a base maintenance working period, a line maintenance job requires AMTs to …
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Towards and embeddable structural health monitoring sensor : design and optimization of MEMS piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters
… interest as a potential method of reducing aircraft maintenance costs while increasing safety. Distributed power supplies for the sensing nodes are needed for a practical implementation of this technique. Vibrational energy harvesting using MEMS piezoelectric resonant devices is an appealing …
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Implementation of an airline recovery model in an event-based simulation
… time between consecutive flight legs in their aircraft and crew schedules. As a result, bad weather or unscheduled aircraft maintenance events can have a significant impact on an airline's operations. The consequences of these disruptions are major costs to airlines, passengers and, ultimately, …
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Software agents : an application to the airline MRO industry
Poor management of aircraft spare parts, human-related maintenance errors and the lack of coordinated decision-making in maintenance scheduling are some of the problems plaguing the airline MRO industry. Airlines, independent MRO providers and government agencies, particularly the Federal Aviation …
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Robust airline schedule planning : review and development of optimization approaches
… flight schedule design, fleet assignment, aircraft maintenance routing and crew scheduling. Almost all aircraft and crew schedule optimization models assume that flights, aircraft, crews, and passengers operate as planned. Thus, airlines typically construct plans that maximize revenue or …
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Comparative analysis of legislation governing maintenance check flight of aircraft
… of agreed-upon international standards. The Maintenance Check Flight (MCF) is one such activity. An MCF supports the aircraft maintenance process by verifying aircraft system operability after the completion of a maintenance task, or as a troubleshooting step before corrective maintenance …
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Human error and interactions with technology in safety-critical workplaces: Learning from the aviation industry
… business that also operated a flight school and aircraft maintenance repair. By focusing on the interfaces between humans performing high-consequence tasks and technology, this research re-examined the conventional human error model of skill, rule and knowledge-based error and considered adding …
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Implementing technical transitions through schedule-based policy : insights from the Military's Airborne Tactical Network
… to simulate a representative environment of aircraft maintenance routines, flight time, and network usage. Using this model, four incremental strategies were compared including regional, stakeholder-specific, platform-specific, and "big bang" approaches. By evaluating network performance …
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