Description:
1. There is no ability for users to "force" a MX Schedule to generate a Work Order. There are times when users will have an asset in for unrelated work and will take the opportunity to work a scheduled inspection early (a.k.a. opportune maintenance). In the system's current state, they would have to manually create an inspection Work Order, then find that asset in the MX Schedule and either suspend that asset until its next cycle, or change the Asset Next Maint date.
2. There is no method to force inspection work orders to drop on the 1st of every month, regardless of the day due during that month. The present method of designating "Days Prior" for work orders to drop doesn't work since it is based on the Next Maintenance Date (actual day due) possibly dropping the work order in an entirely different month than the work is scheduled. This creates variables that complicate managing work load.
3. Changing the Next Maintenance Date is not a desirable option due to changing the official inspection record.
4. DPAS updates MX Schedule dates every 4 hours, this is not sustainable for Maintenance Activities that have hundreds of assets assigned to them.
Recommended:
1. Add a feature to the MX Schedule Asset Assign screen where users can select one or more assets and click a button to generate a Work Order for the selected assets on the next system update. (see below)
2. Add a Check-box to Every X Days Maintenance Schedule frequencies of Months/Years labeled Periodic Inspection. If clicked, the MX Schedule will automatically schedule Work Orders to generate on the 1st day of the month due.
3. Remove the ability for users to change/update the Asset Next Maint date.
4. Move the update of Last Mant Date/Next Maint date to an event based action, so the dates immediately update when a Work Order is closed, to allow for 244s to be printed immediately.
Mission Critical:
TO 00-20-1, Air Force Instruction 21-101
Benefits:
This will ensure we follow policy and Instructions and allow a true periodic inspection type, as opposed to the calender inspection type it is today, and allow efficient management of work load execution. The changes to the Next Maintenance Date will solve the issue with users having to change this date.
Removing or restricting the ability to change the Asset Next Maintenance Date will ensure assets are kept on a proper inspection cycle.
Moving to an event based Maintenance Schedule update will allow users to complete a job, immediately print a new 244 with the Work Order removed and the inspection dates updated, to keep in compliance and keep with ops tempo.
Frequency: Daily
Users:
This improvement will be used by all users, hundreds of times a week.
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