Location types

Locations are used to represent where the pieces of inventory—an aircraft, an engine, or a part—or tools can be situated during their lifetime, and where maintenance work is performed.

Some location types represent places where inventory can be stored, for example a storage bin in the warehouse or a pre-draw location.

Other location types represent places where work can be scheduled, for example a track or line maintenance location.

There are also location types that don't represent a specific physical place, but a general place related to the state of an inventory item. For example:
  • An aircraft in flight.
  • Inventory in transit between locations.
  • Inventory that was scrapped or archived.
When you model your organization, you create a hierarchy of different location types. For example, areas or buildings within an airport are created as sub-locations; rooms or specialty areas within buildings are created as sub-locations to those buildings. Some locations are mandatory, others are required to use specific features or workflows, others are optional.

Location types

Maintenix includes a variety of location types that you can use to model your organizational structure and function.

You can create the following types of locations:
  • Administrative locations: Administrative locations are mandatory and are created automatically when you install Maintenix. You can have only one location of each administrative type. These location types do not represent a physical place, but states of inventory.
  • Geographic and organization locations: Geographic and organization locations represent geographic areas where your organization has operations, the different airports where your organization has operations, and different companies or divisions that share the same Maintenix system.
  • Maintenance and repair locations: Maintenance and repair locations identify areas where work is carried out on aircraft and components, where consumables are stored for current work, and buildings where several maintenance areas are located.
  • Shipping and receiving locations: Shipping and receiving locations are areas where inventory is located temporarily before it is shipped or transferred, and after it is received but not yet routed to a maintenance location or longer-term storage location.
  • Material storage locations: Material storage location types identify the different areas of warehouses used to store inventory.
  • Vendor locations: Vendor location types represent the locations of third-party providers of parts and services. In Maintenix, the vendor location and the financial concept of a vendor are the same. When you create a vendor, the vendor location is created automatically. If needed, you can also create sub-locations to represent maintenance locations within the vendor location.
  • Other locations: Other locations represent inventory that is no longer within your location or a vendor location.