Tasks
In Maintenix, tasks are units of work that are packaged into work packages and assigned to technicians or crews. Tasks are created for scheduled maintenance and corrective tasks are created to address faults. Tasks, like paper job cards, contain the information required to perform the work or to address a fault and are used to sign off on work.
Workflows and steps that you only do for faults are documented separately under the Faults topic.
Tasks that are performed at specified intervals as part of your scheduled maintenance program are created automatically based on the requirement definitions that engineers create for inventory. Planners review upcoming task deadlines, package tasks into work packages, and schedule the work packages.
- Ad-hoc tasks: tasks created without a task definition.
- Faults: tasks created to address problems recently identified on an asset; for example, the result of an inspection.
- On-condition tasks: tasks created that are necessary under certain conditions. You initialize the appropriate on-condition task definition when the condition has occurred. For example, tasks required following a hard landing, a bird strike, or when an aircraft is hit by lightning.
- Opportunistic tasks: tasks created to address additional and non-mandatory activities.
Tasks include summary, execution, scheduling, and warranty information as well as a task history record.
Labor on tasks and faults
| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| ACTV | Task is created but not started. |
| IN WORK | At least one labor row on the task is started. |
| COMPLETE | All labor rows on the task are complete. |
| FORECAST | Recurring tasks that are scheduled for after the ACTV instance of the task is complete. Committed work packages don't contain FORECAST tasks (but tasks do show Next Task links which can be forecasted tasks). |
| ERROR | The task or fault was marked as Error. This happens when someone completes a task or fault by mistake and uses the Mark Task As Error or the Mark Fault As Error button. |
After supervisors, lead technicians, or crew leads assign tasks, you see your assigned tasks on your to-do list. To start work on a task, you start a labor row. If the labor row requires certification and independent inspection, the row isn't complete until these activities are recorded for the row.
Steps on tasks and faults
Tasks and faults can contain steps from job card or executable requirements and steps that were added manually, although the ability to add additional steps to tasks created from task definitions is configured with the ALLOW_ADHOC_JOB_STEPS_ON_BASELINE_TASKS parameter. See the Maintenix Administration Guide.
If steps were added manually, you can remove, edit, or reorder them. You can't remove, edit, or reorder steps on tasks and faults that are based on task definitions or repair references, but you can mark these steps as N/A when appropriate.
If a task or fault contains steps, then when you record work for your labor row, you update the step status for the steps that you worked on. When you select the step status, and proceed with the work capture, your name is recorded against the step. Before the task or fault is complete, all steps must be complete or N/A.
Steps can contain skills - if so, instead of updating the step status, you update the step skill status for your skill when you record work for your labor row.