Softcover

ISBN 10: 007142251X ISBN 13: 9780071422512

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004

This unique resource covers aircraft maintenance program development and operations from a managerial as well as technical perspective. Readers will learn how to save money by minimizing aircraft downtime and slashing maintenance and repair costs.

* Plan and control maintenance
* Coordinate activities of the various work centers
* Establish an initial maintenance program
* Develop a systems concept of maintenance
* Identify and monitor maintenance problems and trends

From the Back Cover:

MAINTAIN SAFER AIRCRAFT -- AND A SOUNDER BOTTOM LINE

This unique resource helps managers develop and run efficient, reliable, and cost-effective airline maintenance programs. Former Boeing official and now Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University teacher Harry Kinnison's Aviation Maintenance Management shows you every step of planning a maintenance program and getting it up and running. More than that, it helps you:

* Save money by maintaining aircraft to a higher standard
* Minimize aircraft downtime while slashing maintenance and repair costs
* Apply systems concepts for improved integration and communication
* Upgrade technical and provisioning functions
* Improve efficiency in meeting regulatory requirements
* Identify and monitor maintenance program problems and trends
* Stay on top on quality assurance, quality control, reliability standards, and safety issues
* Fine-tune your approach to the human factors in maintenance

About the Author:

Harry A. Kinnison, Ph.D., worked for the Boeing Company for 20 years, 10 as a specialist in the Maintenance and Ground Operations Systems Group of the Customer Services Organization. Specifically, he represented Boeing to airlines on the ETOPS (extended-range twin-engine operations) program, participated in airline maintenance evaluations, and helped airlines develop reliability programs. Since his retirement from Boeing in 2000, he has taught aviation maintenance management courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. He developed this book because no suitable text for courses such as his existed.