Managing the configuration baseline for assemblies comprises of one basic data sub process and two main sub processes:
This comprises of defining change set types to better reflect how your organization views a particular change set type. You can edit the description of change set types and the criticality of available change set types, if required.
Defining the configuration baseline takes input from configuration related documents including the first revision of the Original Equipment Manufacturer's (OEM) Illustrated Parts Catalog (IPC) document.
Revisions to the OEM's IPC, service literature such as Airworthiness Directives (ADs) and Service Bulletins (SBs) issued by the OEM, or configuration change requests necessitate the update of the configuration baseline initially defined in Maintenix.
A copy of the configuration baseline to be updated is obtained by your Maintenix administrator on exporting configuration data from Maintenix and importing it to Allowable Configuration. Once a new revision for the OEM IPC is received, you create a change source and link it to an assembly.
You can then upload the new IPC document revision, link
it to the relevant assembly and generate the baseline. Once done, you can set
the status of the document revision to Ready for Analysis so that it can be
sent to a engineering service partner for analysis.
Your engineering service partner is then able to extract the required data
in order to analyze and determine the required changes to the configuration
baseline. Once the partner has finished adding changes, they upload it to Allowable
Configuration so you can view the suggested changes.
Once you have identified the part groups impacted by the
suggested changes, the part group should be connected to a change source if
an existing part group requires a change, or a new part group can be created.
Once the change source has been modified for a part group it becomes the active
change source.
For an active change source, you can view the suggested
changes, categorized by the change set type, which indicates the change required.
You can also see the criticality which is indicative of the action that should
be taken on the change. Once you have determined the course of action for the
change set, you must action the change set by:
Accepting the suggestion to implement the change automatically. In the event that the suggested change is to create a new part group, accepting this change set will create the part group.
Rejecting the suggestion to decline making the change automatically.
Setting it to manually actioned to indicate that you will make changes manually.
You can also accept and reject all change sets for a particular change set type, for all the part groups on a change source, in a single operation via bulk accept or bulk reject.
If required, you can action manual changes on part groups.
These are changes you have decided based on the analysis of configuration change
sources of the Other type. To action these changes, you must modify the change
source for the affected part group to the other type change source or create
a part group for the other change source. Manual changes can then be made on
the part group.
After changes have been made to part groups, you must review the configuration change source for alternate or incompatible parts that have been flagged for evaluation. If incompatible parts have been flagged for evaluation for a change source, they should be copied to the alternate part for which they were flagged, prior to setting the change source to ready for approval.
Once all the updates for a configuration change source
have been made, you can submit the change source for approval by setting the
status to Ready for Approval. Once approved, the change source will be ready
to be published. On publishing the change source, all the valid changes to the
configuration baseline are updated in Maintenix. If some or all of the changes
to the configuration baseline are invalid, you can rectify the error and publish
the change source again.