Mean corrective maintenance time for a medium courier turboprop aircraft

Abstract

Logistics can be seen as the compound of all the considerations needed to ensure the efficient and economical support of a system throughout its life cycle. The unscheduled actions, performed as a result of a failure or a perceived failure, that are necessary to restore a system to its required level of performance is corrective maintenance. Such activities may include troubleshooting, disassembly to gain access to the faulty item, repair, remove and replace, reassembly, alignment and adjustment and checkout. The frequency of maintenance for a given item is highly dependent on the reliability of that item. In general, as the reliability of a system increases, the frequency of maintenance will decrease and, conversely, the frequency of maintenance will increase as system reliability is degraded.

Keywords

• aviation
• critical parts
• turboprop aircraft
• corrective maintenance
• reliability