Diamond Aircraft Industries

Reliability Centered Maintenance started when a preventative maintenance plan were developed for the Boeing 747 airplane in the 1960’s by the maintenance steering group. In the RCM process in maintenance not only ‘what can be done’ is considered but also ‘why should it be done’. To facilitate the RCM process seven questions should be asked to complete the process. • What are the functions and performance standards of the asset in the operating environment? • How does the asset fail to perform…

Summary During the summer of 1997, a study of aircraft maintenance employee schedules was conducted at the flight department of Saudi Aramco (biggest oil company in the world) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (Alfares, 1997) Objective was to calculate the current fixed-wing aircraft maintenance worker schedule and come out with solution to improve and to decide the optimum work schedule that fulfills increasing maintenance labor requirements with the lowest cost and highest efficiency. Flight department…

using a single model of aircraft (the Boeing 737-800) which may help to reduce training cost, maintenance cost, purchase and storage of the spare part of the aircraft. Since these types of aircraft models are widely used the schedule of flight crews become more flexible. Thus, Ryanair can easily recruit the flight crew especially the pilot as most of them are familiar with handling these types of aircraft model. Other than that, Ryanair is purchasing a large number of aircraft from Boeing which…

Understanding Generation Y is the key to keep them in a company, but what should we do to show that we understand them? For the case of Malaysia Airlines (MAS), there are some recommendations to the company in order to improve the retention practice of Generation Y employee. After the sad incident happened, all the cabin crew have trauma to work in a plane. In order to keep cabin crews’ and other employees’ loyalty to work with MAS, the company have to show the sincerity to make some changes in…

the mass production of aircrafts, managing the air traffic becomes harder and eventually the current managing system will fail against the enormous number of airplanes navigation the sky. Unless the whole system is upgraded, the task will be impossible in the near future. Some agencies across the world like FAA and EUROCONTROL, have possessed the power to change the aviation reality by developing modules that will give…

Business processes are defined as the workflows that includes transforming a set of inputs into essential outputs of delivering a service or product to a client, explains Keningham and Aksoy (2009). In essence, a business process is a “standardized set of [related] activities that accomplish a specific task”, such as processing customer orders and once completed, will accomplish an organizational goal (Baltzan, 2015, p. 29). Complaint 1: A passenger on a trip with a major airline, Mango…

The invention of the airplane is most likely the most important innovations in transportation. The airplane industry is enormous; In 2016, the industry generated 501 billion US dollars. The question is why are airplanes so popular. Well, airplanes are able to drastically cut down on travel times. Although the airplane is extremely important for transporting, airplanes do have some drawbacks. For example, airplanes release harmful substances into the atmosphere. The airplane was invented by…

EasyJet Network (detailed data shown in the appendix 2) The business is boasted over 200 aircraft, over 600 routes, operating from over 130 airports, over 30 countries and 23 bases. There are 55 million passengers and oversea the safe arrival of over 1200 daily departures annually through EasyJet. Making travel easy and affordable for their customers is EasyJet's passionate. Customer experience is at the heart of everything EasyJet do, every customer is committed to making the travel experience…

I was zooming through the air in a plane at rapid speeds, yet I was at a point in my life where everything was at a standstill. Nothing significant was happening. I was an aspiring soccer player, but at the moment I had no team to play on. I was growing more anxious day by day, and I began to wonder what the future had in store for me after my vacation. It wouldn't take long for me to find out. I would have never thought that my vacation to Thailand in June of 2017 would change my life. It…

Chapter Seven “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes” #14. Gladwell uses plane crashes as an example for why communication is so important. On page 184, Gladwell says, “The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.” This philosophy applies not only to plane crashes, but also to school projects, or relationships, or even something as small as playing a board game with a group of friends. In situations where people are expected to work together and…