Assign Technicians to Turns

Explanation

Line supervisors can assign work on a turn to technicians considering the required skills to complete the turn, and the technicians' availability.

If the inbound flight for a turn is delayed, the work package previously planned for the turn remains until a planner reschedules the work package if needed. If work needs to be rescheduled, the planner must update and republish the work package accordingly.

Line supervisors can use the Turn Work Assignments page as a high-level planning tool to assign a turn to technicians possessing specific skills. You can assign technicians to turns by assigning technicians to skills using a list or the Gantt chart.

If the outbound flight of the turn is canceled or there is no outbound flight, the turn can be assigned between the arrival time of the inbound flight and scheduled end time of the work package.

Turn work assignments have the following statuses:

• Assigned - All required skills are assigned to technicians and there are no conflicts with the resource assignments.
• Unassigned - One or all of the required skills have not been assigned to a technician.
• No Required Skills - Required skills are not added.
• Resource Conflict - One or more of the assigned technicians is assigned to another task or turn at the same time. Resource conflict usually occurs due to flight delays and you can define the parameters to show the resource conflict on the Maintenance Execution Parameters page.

Prerequisites

1. The status of the aircraft turn must be Inbound, Arrived or In Maintenance.
2. Define technicians - To perform this, the technicians' schedules must be defined using resource groups. Follow the steps given below to do so:
   1. Create a site.
   2. Connect calendars and users to the site (Extended Site Info).
   3. Create a resource group (Resource Type: Person).
   4. Connect the site to the resource group.
   5. Add technicians to the resource group (Persons section).
   6. Connect the site and airport using the Airport page.

Note: If the HCM component is used, then the HR schedule of the person's primary scheduling employment is taken to get the availability. If there is no HR Schedule, then the Work Time Calendar directly connected to the person is taken to get the availability. To assign work to technicians, users should have access to the site.

3. Define the Show Inbound Turns for the Next (Hours) and Show All Turns for the Last (Hours) fields on the Airport page.
4. Define work assignment display parameters to display resource conflicts (FLIGHT_DELAY_FOR_CONFLICT_MINS and DISPLAY_RESOURCE_CONFLICT) on the Maintenance Execution Parameters page.
5. Define skill requirements on the Default Turn Resource Requirements page to obtain a required skill list by default.
6. There must be an inbound and outbound flight for the turn.

System Effects

If the technician has been assigned to one or more skills to work on a turn, the technician is able to view the particular turn on the My Aircraft Turns page. To view turns for which a technician has been assigned, on the My Aircraft Turns page, the technician can click View Turns Assigned to Me on the Line Maintenance Execution mobile application or select the Turns Assigned to Me check box on the Line Maintenance Execution web application.

Pages

Station Turns
Turn Work Assignments

Activity Diagrams

Assign Resources