Publish Work Package

Explanation

You can publish a work package and its contents from Maintenix to Maintenance Execution so that scheduled maintenance can be accomplished on an aircraft.

On publishing, a file is loaded to the Line Maintenance Work Package Loader page and processed according to data and business rules. If the publish is successful, a work package and its contents are created or updated for the corresponding aircraft turn in Line Maintenance Execution.

You can also publish a work package after removing tasks, faults and work types from a work package, as well as parts, tools, actions, measurement, steps, and skills defined on tasks and faults in Maintenix, to update the work package in Line Maintenance Execution.

When a work package is published, a timestamp is set on the work package. If publish messages are queued for a work package, the update that is processed is that with the later timestamp.

If a work package is published from Maintenix before the auto-reservation of parts is fully completed, installed part information will not be available in Line Maintenance Execution. The work package must be republished once auto-reservation has been completed to make installed part information available in Line Maintenance Execution.

Prerequisites

• To publish the work package from Maintenix to Maintenance Execution:
  • The work scope must be generated
  • The work package must be scheduled
  • Your system administrator must have:
    •  enabled the ACTION_PUBLISH_WORK_PACKAGE permission setting in Maintenix.
    • set the MaintenixConnected property to TRUE on the Apps-Mtx Config page in IFS Cloud Web.
• To create or update a work package and its contents successfully via publishing from Maintenix:
• Basic data corresponding to the data for the work package and its contents must be set up in Line Maintenance Execution to avoid the work package upload or publish failing due to invalid data.
• Values for the mandatory fields must be specified according to work package specifications as required by the Line Maintenance Work Package Loader. See About Specifications for Load and Publish Work Package for details.

System Effects

• An event is received on the Communication Log page which can then be monitored to see the status of the work package publish in Line Maintenance Execution. For more information see About Communication Monitoring.
• If the work package publish was successful, on the Line Maintenance Work Package Loader page:
  • The status of the file is Completed.
  • The execution status of the rows in the tabs is Successful.
  • The work package is displayed connected to the corresponding aircraft turn on the Aircraft Turn Details page.
  • Tasks and faults assigned to the work package are displayed with the work tasks for the work package.
• Work types can be seen specified on a turn on the Turn Work Assignments page.
• Part removal and part installation, tool usage, measurement, actions and steps can be seen on the Task Details and Fault Details pages, as applicable.
• If the publish failed:
  • If your system administrator set up to notify you when the work package publishing fails, the notification panel will contain a notification. When you click on the notification for the error, you are directed to the Line Maintenance Work Package Loader page which indicates the cause of failure of the work package.
  • On the Line Maintenance Work Package Loader page:
    • The execution status in the Execution Summary section is set to Failed.
    • Work packages and their contents are not created or updated. Details of the failed rows can be viewed on the Line Maintenance Work Package Loader page by expanding the row with the Failed execution status. Note that to view all the columns for a row you must set the view to Table View for the tab. 
• Transactions associated with the file upload can be viewed on the External File Transactions page by clicking External File Transfer Logs.

Procedure

1. On the Work Package Details page in Maintenix, click Publish Work Package.
2. To verify if the work package publish succeeded or failed, in IFS Cloud Web, open the Line Maintenance Work Package Loader page.
3. Depending on the execution status of the file, you must take actions as follows:
   1. Completed - This state is indicative of successful file upload. You can go on to view the created or updated work packages, tasks and faults.
   2. Failed - This state is indicative of a failure due to work package publishing errors.
   3. Error - This state is indicative of an unexpected error. You must re-publish the work package again.

Pages

Line Maintenance Work Package Loader

Activity Diagrams

Publish Work Package from Maintenix