Strategic planning of aircraft preventive maintenance program
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https://doi.org/10.55972/spectrum.v24i1.394Keywords:
Operational research, Optimization, Logistics, Aircraft maintenance, Air operationsAbstract
Aircraft maintenance activities have a significant impact on the logistical costs of a fleet. Proper planning of preventive maintenance is essential to reduce these costs and increase fleet availability. Currently, these activities are not planned at a strategic level, occurring only at the tactical and operational levels, through the use of spreadsheets and empirical methods. This planning process increases the potential for fleet unavailability and logistical costs, either because of the limited view provided by a restricted planning time horizon, or because of the solution found, which has no guarantees regarding its quality. The present work proposes a strategic planning approach for aircraft preventive maintenance programs, based on an exact optimization method, encompassing the entire operational life cycle of a fleet, aiming to minimize logistical costs, in terms of maintenance time, increasing, therefore the availability of the fleet.
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