Raise Fault
Explanation
In aircraft maintenance, a fault is raised when a problem is discovered.
A fault is sometimes referred to as a non-routine maintenance, finding, or
discrepancy. Faults are found and raised by the flight crew during flights,
inspections, and by technicians while performing maintenance work. After
assessing a fault, it can then be fixed or deferred.
You can only raise and edit faults when the device is online.
You can raise a fault in two ways:
- From the Raise Fault page: When
raising a fault from the Raise Fault page, select
the aircraft on which the fault was found. If you do not select a flight
for the Found During Flight field, the fault must be
manually packaged.
- From the Aircraft Turn Details page: When raising
a fault from the Aircraft Turn
Details page, the fault is assigned to the aircraft of the selected turn and the
Found During Flight field is set to the last arrival flight for
the aircraft.
Once a fault has been created, you can update information about the fault
from the Task
Details or Fault Details page
before the fault is deferred or closed.
Prerequisites
- Aircraft configuration and flight information must be available
within Mobile Maintenance for Aviation.
- Fault Sources must be defined in
Aviation Maintenance/Basic Data.
System Effects
- A new fault is created with the Open status and is displayed on the
Fault Details page.
- If you raise a fault from the
Aircraft Turn Details page or if you specify a flight during which the
fault was found
when raising a fault from the Raise Fault page, the fault is
automatically packaged to the existing work package. If a work package does not
exist, the fault is packaged into a newly created work package.
- A new fault is created in IFS-Maintenix.
- A fault created from the My Aircraft Turns
page is assigned to an existing work package if one exists.
If not, the fault is packaged into a newly created work package.
- Faults created from the Technician Lobby are
not assigned to a work package.
- A fault raised by a pilot through the eLogbook application is
packaged into an IN WORK work package at the flight's arrival airport.
If a work package doesn't exist, the fault is packaged into a newly
created work package.