Assign Technicians to Turns

Explanation

Maintenance supervisors can assign skills to technicians considering the required skills to complete the turn, and the technicians' availability.  

Maintenance supervisors can use the Turn Work Assignments page as a high level planning tool to assign turns to a group of resources. This page shows all the turns within the time range based on the offset defined on the Airport page (Airport Settings). You can assign technicians to turns by assigning technicians to skills using a List or a Gantt Chart. This page displays the skill requirements defined in the Default Turn Resource Requirements page by default and you can add or remove skills if needed. 

Turns are categorized into the following states: 

• Assigned – All required skills are assigned to technicians and there are no conflicts with the resource assignments 
• Unassigned - One or all of the required skills have not been assigned to a technician
• No Required Skills - Required skills are not added
• Resource Conflict – One or more of the assigned technicians is assigned to another task or turn at the same time. Resource conflict usually occurs due to flight delays and you can define the parameters to show the resource conflict on the Work Assignment Display Parameters page

Note: You would never be assigning a turn to a technician if some of the tasks have been already assigned and you would never be assigning tasks within a turn if the turn has been already assigned. You are either assigning work at the task levels or you are assigning it at the turn level. 

Prerequisites

1.  Define technicians - To perform this, the technicians' schedules must be defined using resource groups.  Follow the steps given below to do so:
   1. Create a site
   2. Connect calendars and users to the site (Extended Site Info)
   3. Create a resource group (Resource Type: Person)
   4.  Connect the site to the resource group
   5. Add technicians to the resource group (Persons section)
   6. Connect the site and airport using the Airport page

Note: If the HCM module is used, then the HR schedule of the person's primary scheduling employment is taken to get the availability. If there is no HR Schedule, then the Work Time Calendar directly connected to the person is taken to get the availability. To assign work to technicians users should have access to the site. 

2. There must be a turn within the time time range based on the offset defined in Airport page (Airport Settings)
3. Define work assignment display parameters to display resource conflicts (FLIGHT_DELAY_FOR_CONFLICT_MINS & DISPLAY_RESOURCE_CONFLICT) on the Work Assignment Display Parameters page.
4. Define skill requirements on the Default Turn Resource Requirements page to obtain a required skill list by default
5. The arrival and departure time should be defined for the turn in order to use the Gantt Chart

System Effects

As a result of this activity, a skill is assigned to a technician. If the technician has been assigned to one or more skill to work on a turn, the technician is able to view the particular turn on the My Aircraft Turns page. To view turns for which a technician has been assigned, on the My Aircraft Turns page, the technician can click View Turns Assigned to Me on the Mobile Maintenance native application or select the Turns Assigned to Me check box on the Mobile Maintenance web application.

Pages

Station Turns
Turn Work Assignments

Activity Diagrams

Assign Resources