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Contracting of continuing airworthiness

management tasks

Xinming Lv, CAAC

June 2014, Mongolia

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Outline

Background

Reference

Main Principle

Implementation

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Needs

Contracting

continuing

airworthiness

management tasks

Background • Fast development of

Chinese civil aviation

industry

• Highly-improved

capability of Chinese

aviation maintenance

engineering industry

Background

Problem

• The policy and

guide material is not

available

• No experience

Purpose • To effectively use the technical personals;

• To maintain engineering management level and operation safety of

airlines;

• To effectively decrease maintenance cost;

• To avoid the double-investment of resources.

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Outline

Background

Reference

Main Principle

Implementation

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Reference

COSCAP

AC 120-79A Developing and Implementing an Air Carrier Continuing Analysis and Surveillance System

EASA EASA Part-M subpart G Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization

FAA

AC 021 Maintenance Contracting

To develop CAAC’s guide material on it, and select pilot operator to do the test

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CAAC 《Notice of Issuing the Implementation

Scheme and Requirements of Contracting continuing

airworthiness management tasks 》

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Outline

Background

Reference

Main Principle

Implementation

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CCAR-121 Operator should have

their own maintenance engineering

department.

Operator should be responsible for

the airworthiness.

Operator should take

comprehensive and effective

surveillance on their contracted

maintenance engineering tasks.

The organization who implements

the contracted tasks will be treated as

a part of the airlines engineering

department.

Operators should keep sufficient

qualified personnel to fulfill the

remaining function and

Conduct relevant audit and

surveillance work

Partial of the quality management

work can be contracted

But the responsibility cannot be

contracted

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3 4

2

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The interface with CAAC

Operator is directly responsible for the

manual/document submitting,

information reporting, authority

surveillance and audit

Local authority of operators is fully

responsible for the surveillance of the

contacting of operator

Operator can contract the same

maintenance engineering organization

per a/c type only

Cannot contract different maintenance

work of one a/c type to different parties.

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3 Steps to all conditions

Step Requirements of Pilot

Companies Deadline Pilot Companies

1

Belonging to the same airlines

group and in the same regional

administration

31Dec2013 Chine Eastern,

Shanghai Airlines

2

Belonging to the same airlines

group but in the different regional

administrations

31Dec2014

China Eastern, China

Eastern -Yunnan

Branch

3

Belonging to different airlines

groups and in the different regional

administrations

31Dec2015 To be determined

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Outline

Background

Reference

Main Principle

Implementation

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Implementation: Contracting between China Eastern and

Shanghai Airlines

Seminars with CAAC and Both Companies in 2013

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Implementation: Contracting between China Eastern and Shanghai

Airlines

Items Contacted by Shanghai Airlines

Technical Publications;

Maintenance Program;

MEL;

AD/ CAD;

Service Bulletin &

Service Letter;

……

……

47 Contracted tasks： Contracted tasks and working interface：

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Maintenance Engineering Management

Manual ;

Maintenance Engineering Training

Program;

Aircraft Maintenance Reliability

Management Program ;

…….

2 Manuals

China Eastern Manuals

81 Procedures

Shanghai Airlines

Surveillance Procedures

Maintenance Engineering Management Service Manual;

Engineering Service Training Program;

10 Manuals

Shanghai Airlines

Manuals Engineering management

contracting program and

implementation Plan

Maintenance engineering

management personnel evaluation

report

Safety risk evaluation of

Engineering Management

contracting

Engineering Management

Contracting Agreement

Compliance statement list (1 for

CCAR 121 and 19 for 121 AC)

Flow chart of Contracted items

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Compiled Mutually

Implementation: Contracting between China Eastern and Shanghai

Airlines

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Implementation: Contracting between China Eastern and Shanghai

Airlines

Samples of Check List Compiled by Shanghai Airlines

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Shanghai Airlines retain the maintenance engineering department and implement the administration;

Take all the responsibility of aircraft continuous airworthiness;

Consist of maintenance management division, engineering technical division, quality management division, production support division, training management division, contract management division.

Retain maintenance engineering department 1

Develop the surveillance checklists ; Checklist will define the content,

frequency and ratio of surveillance and audit;

Audit content will be the key point of engineering contracting;

Audit frequency and ratio will be determined according to the importance, safety and possible probability of problem occurrence of the consigned items

Surveillance checklist 5 Shanghai Airlines maintenance

engineering department maintenance, engineering, quality, production support, training department etc are respectively correspond to China Eastern Engineering and Technical company relative department;

Carry out the surveillance and audit according to certain work procedure and checklist;

Adjust the routine surveillance plan, frequency and ratio at a suitable time according to the operation of the consigned engineering items.

Carry out the surveillance and audit 6

China Eastern will implement the maintenance engineering management though maintenance management information system, SAP system and maintenance human resource training management system etc.;

Maintenance engineering department can carry out the relative surveillance and audit through the above systems

IT system platform 4

Predict the total labor hour

according to the work load;

Determine the staff number;

Provide adequate qualified

personnel.

The size of qualified personnel 3 characteristic -- Shanghai Airlines

Confirm the requirements of rules and manuals;

Determine the personnel position and responsibility;

Develop the training course for each position;

Develop the Maintenance System Training Syllabus;

Ensure the retained personnel from Maintenance Engineering Department of Shanghai Airlines are qualified to their position requirement and they can carry out the surveillance and audit correctly.

Personnel position training 2

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Responsibility system with Leader in charge １

China Eastern maintenance management

information system used for engineering,

maintenance management, quality

management;

China Eastern SAP system used for

material management, maintenance

program, job card management, post

flight data, component control;

China Eastern maintenance human

resource training system used for

training management.

IT system platform ４

Compile Maintenance Engineering Management

Service Manual;

Clarify the policy, standard of Shanghai Airlines

engineering contracted items implementation;

Establish the service procedure for contracted

items;

Ensure the engineering service provided always

satisfy with Shanghai Airlines’ requirement, and

can be carried out standardized.

Maintenance Engineering Management Service Manual

2

Compile Engineering Service Training

Syllabus based on China Eastern

Maintenance System Training Syllabus

List the position training course which

must be performed to the engineering

management personnel who will service

for Shanghai Airlines

Meet with the special requirement of

Shanghai Airlines.

Position Training Requirement ３ The transferred personnel from Shanghai

Airlines maintenance engineering

department and the existing personnel

from China Eastern Engineering and

Technical Department will have the

position training simultaneously specified

in China Eastern Maintenance System

Training Syllabus and Engineering Service

Training Syllabus

Authorized by Shanghai Airlines,

implement the maintenance engineering

management consigned by Shanghai

Airlines according to the Maintenance

Engineering Management Service Manual.

Implementation 5

characteristic--China Eastern Engineering and Technical Company

General manager is responsible for the contracted

items which is undertaken by China Eastern

Engineering and Technical Company;

Assign a DGM who is responsible for the details;

Each functional department should assign a

leader (responsible person) who is in charge of

the details of the Shanghai Airline’s items which

are undertaken by its own department.

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Submit pre- application

Submit formal application

Apply for test operation On site validation

Submit pilot program

Finish document audit

Test operation Pilot project acceptance

Implementation Process

3 4 5 — 6 7 8 9 4 10 2013

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In Nov 2013, the 1st step of pilot maintenance engineering contracting

between China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines has been finished.

Currently, China Eastern Engineering and Technical Company conducts the

maintenance engineering management work to Shanghai Airlines. The

operation of Shanghai Airlines' fleet is stable.

China Eastern and Yunnan Branch of China Eastern are now implementing

the 2nd step of pilot engineering maintenance contracting ever since the

beginning of 2014.

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Thank You!