Additive spares and digital inventory
Printed spare parts flying today, certification routes, digital warehouses and data rights, blockchain and part passports, machine learning forecasting, the economics of print versus stock, risks and a roadmap. Part 4 of the Parts and supply chain series.
What you will be able to do
- ✓ Identify which printed parts are certified and flying today, and screen your own parts for the triggers and conditions that make printing worthwhile.
- ✓ Choose among the four certification routes for a printed spare, separating design approval, production approval and release.
- ✓ Specify what a digital warehouse must hold, negotiate the data rights to print, and audit the digital chain.
- ✓ Separate real, limited, legal and promised digital traceability, and apply the lessons of ARAIC report AA2008-5 on JA849A to digital records.
- ✓ Test machine learning forecasts against a simple method, and calculate the break-even between a last-time buy and a print route over the fleet's life.
- ✓ Manage build-file security, process drift and unapproved printed copies, and plan a costed roadmap.
Course content
Session 1 · Printed spares: what is flying today
1.1
- A part nobody could make any more · free preview
- What is flying today
- Printed spares: the cases so far
- Worked example: screening six parts that kept aircraft waiting
Session 2 · Certification routes for printed spares
1.2
- Four routes to an approved printed spare
- The design side: what must be shown
- The production side: who may make and release it
- Worked example: choosing the route for two parts
Session 3 · Digital warehouses and data rights
1.3
- What a digital warehouse really holds
- Data rights: who owns the file
- Printing near the point of use
- Worked example: an audit finding in the digital warehouse
Session 4 · Digital traceability, blockchain and part passports
1.4
- Blockchain: what a ledger can and cannot prove
- Digital part passports: real, limited, law or promised
- The digital thread for a printed part
- From the investigation file: a record that said more than was done
Session 5 · Forecasting and the economics of print versus stock
1.5
- Forecasting parts nobody orders often
- Machine learning forecasts: promise and limits
- The economics of print versus stock
- Worked example: the break-even between stock and print
Session 6 · Risks and the road ahead
1.6
- Build files as targets
- Process drift and printed copies
- From pilot to programme
- Worked example: a three-year roadmap, and the series in view
Who this course is for
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