Sector: Airline Enginering Maintenance Scope: Provide Engineering with a suite of production tools to enhance hangar throughput without affecting safety or quality to match airline growth. Application: Using Lean Tools that LMR had already tailored for the aircraft maintenance industry. LMR and the core team started the transformation with great care not to adversely affect passenger safety, the quality of engineering work, or the engineering work ethic. After a three week analysis of operations using VSM, LMR started with the application of High Level Standardised Work to manage the sequence of the maintenance check programme, and the critical path of the technicians’ tasks. By managing workflow, including 3rd party support, LMR was able to reduce checktimes immediately by 30%

With the introduction of an integrated production team to manage the planning, material flow, and production activities, the client soon saw a further impact on check times with an improvement in Deferred Defect clear up. These activities were followed with the introduction of 5s, TPM, and QCO to sustain the improvement in check time reduction. LMR have trained the client’s leadership to use Information Centre meetings to drive and manage performance. Results: Aircraft check times are at the allotted throughput time (54% reduction). ROI on LMR resource 7:1 Future Plans: The client is undertaking a further reduction in turnaround times to drive problems to the surface and increase efficiency.