Designing a bottom-up Remanufacturing Process Control and Maturity Model for Airline MRO: A case study at KLM E&M

In this day and age sustainability is becoming increasingly important. Even though the airline business is not the first thing which comes to mind when regarding sustainability there are huge efforts in play to extend the life of airplanes and its corresponding components. This is done via remanufacturing. Remanufacturing can here be defined as:...

Design of an Advanced Task Planning Model for Aircraft Heavy Maintenance: A case study at KLM Engineering & Maintenance Airframe Services

Due to complex nature of aircraft heavy maintenance checks, achieving process stability is difficult. Literature suggests that this stability can be obtained by separating routine and non-routine work, and focusing on quick identification of non-routine tasks by completing inspection tasks early in the check. Current task planning methods show...