Find and Reserve Inventory in Maintenix

Explanation

You can find and reserve inventory in IFS-Maintenix, for part changes that must be carried out as a result of performing maintenance, using the Line Maintenance Execution applications.

Inventory can be found and reserved for the aircraft turn or for a specific task or fault on an aircraft turn. When you click Find Inventory, you are required to log in to Maintenix with your user credentials, provided it is the first time you are accessing Maintenix within a particular login session, and on logging in, you are then directed to the Inventory Search/Search by installable inventory page in Maintenix with the values for fields set as follows:

Field	Value
Search Type	Search by installable inventory
Aircraft	The registration code (tail number) of the aircraft on the turn, task or fault
Supply Location	The airport of the aircraft turn
Installed	Uninstalled items only
Reservation Status	Reserved (to steal inventory from another task) + Unreserved
Serviceability	Serviceable

If required, you can also change the default value of the Search Type field to search by part number or serial number for batch, serialized and kit inventory. 

Once inventory is found, inventory can be reserved provided it meets the prerequisites for inventory reservation. You can reserve local inventory where the where needed location is the same as the inventory location, or reserve remote inventory where the inventory location is not the same as the where needed location.

If your organization allows stealing of inventory under controlled circumstances, such as after MOC approval:

• You can reserve inventory that was already reserved which steals the inventory for a new request and fires off auto-reservation for the previous request.
• You cannot steal already reserved inventory for a remote reservation. This means that if some inventory is already reserved at a local or remote supply location, the same inventory cannot be stolen for another remote reservation.

Prerequisites

To find inventory:

• You must be online.
• Your system administrator must have:
  • granted you access to the Inventory Search by Type page in Maintenix via the ACTION_SEARCH_INVENTORY_BY_TYPE permission.
  • set the MaintenixConnected property to TRUE on the Apps-Mtx Config page.
  • configured the Maintenix URL for cross application navigation, between the Line Maintenance Execution and Maintenix applications, on the Apps-Mtx Config page.

To reserve inventory:

• The inventory must not be attached to an aircraft or issued.
• Your system administrator must have enabled the ACTION_REQUEST_AND_RESERVE_INVENTORY permission setting in Maintenix.

System Effects

• A part request is created in Maintenix for reserved inventory with values as follows:
  • Inventory reserved for a task from the Task Details page has the value for the Needed By Task field on the part request in Maintenix set to Maintenance Execution Task Record ID R01 where R01 is the Record ID of the task in Maintenance Execution.
  • Inventory reserved for a fault from the Fault Details page has the value for the Needed By Task field on the part request in Maintenix to Maintenance Execution  Fault Record ID R01 where R01 is the Record ID of the fault in Maintenance Execution.
  • Inventory reserved for an aircraft turn from the Aircraft Turn Details page has the value for the Needed By Task field on the part request in Maintenix to the Line Maintenance Execution Turn.
  • Values for the Aircraft and Where Needed fields are set based on the originating aircraft turn, task or fault in Line Maintenance Execution.   
• If you reserve inventory that was already reserved, a warning is issued that you are about to reserve inventory that was previously reserved and the inventory is stolen from the previous reservation for the new request. If enabled, an auto-reservation process then runs to try and reserve a part for the previous request.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Aircraft Turn Details page for the turn for which inventory needs to be found and reserved. To find and reserve inventory on the turn level, click Find Inventory. Alternatively on the Work Tasks or Open Faults menu/tab, click on the task or fault for which inventory must be found, or click Details, to navigate to the Task Details or Faults Details page and then click Find Inventory.
2. On the Search by installable inventory page in IFS-Maintenix:
1. To find tracked or sub assembly inventory, on the Search by installable inventory page, in the Config Slot Position field, select the config slot position on which the tracked or sub-assembly part is to be installed, and then click Search.
   Note: If you do not see search results after performing a search following a change in the config slot position, refresh the page to load the search results.
2. To find batch, serialized or kit inventory, in the Search Type field, select search by part number or search by serial number, enter values for the other required search fields and click Search.
3. To include common hardware in your search results, select Include Common Hardware.
3. To reserve found inventory:
   1. On the Inventory Found tab, select the inventory to be reserved and click Reserve Inventory.
   2. On the Create Reservation page, verify that the information that appears by default is correct and enter any required information. If an aircraft is not displayed in the Aircraft field, select the aircraft for which the inventory must be reserved. For batch parts, you can modify the quantity displayed in the Quantity field.
   3. Click OK.

 

Pages

Aircraft Turn Details
Fault Details
Task Details

Activity Diagrams

Perform Maintenance