Work on deferred faults opportunistically
- The unplanned fault has the status of Open or Defer.
As you work on an asset, be it an aircraft waiting at the gate or a component in the shop, you might see an opportunity to address a fault that exists for the asset but that was not planned for the current or upcoming maintenanceādeferred faults, or open faults that are not assigned to a work package. For example, you might have the parts required for the unplanned work on hand, and the planned work might be completed earlier than anticipated.
In this situation, you can assign the unplanned fault to the work package that you are working on (or will work on shortly), package the fault in its own active work package that you will complete when the fault is addressed, or, in the case where you already did the work to address the fault, package and complete the fault in a single operation.