Job card definitions
The purpose of a job card definition is to convey how to perform the work, or some of the work, that is required to satisfy a maintenance requirement, including:
- Work instructions, consisting of the detailed sequence of steps needed to
complete the task.
If your organization has an external system that includes the instructions, for example in the aircraft maintenance manual (AMM), you can add links to that system in the job cards in Maintenix, so that maintenance personnel access the instructions in the external system.
- Supporting information such as technical reference links to external documentation, diagrams, or other instructional aids.
- Resources that are needed, including the number of technicians, their skills, the tools, the parts, and whether the work done by each technician must be certified by another user and undergo an independent inspection.
Once you have created a job card, you can preview it as a PDF document, and print the job card.
When you create a job card definition, you assign it a class. The job card definition classes provided in Maintenix are described in the following table.
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| Clean (CLEAN) | A task to clean equipment. |
| Close (CLOSE) | A task for closing a panel or area when the work is completed. This task class is used for heavy maintenance work packages, and the actual tasks are scheduled at the end of the work package. |
| Close Panel (CLOSEPANEL) | Provides instructions on how to close a specific panel on the aircraft, as well as parts and tools requirement. The aircraft zone and panel are specified in the task definition. |
| Inspection (INSP) | Identifies a preventative maintenance action. |
| Install (INST) | A task for installing a component, this is usually a subtask to a replacement requirement (REPL). |
| Job Card (JIC) | A generic job card task that does not relate to the other job card classes listed in this table. |
| Open (OPEN) | A task for opening a panel or area when the work starts. This task class is used for heavy maintenance work packages, and the actual tasks are scheduled at the beginning of the work package. |
| Open Panel (OPENPANEL) | Provides instructions on how to open a specific panel on the aircraft, as well as parts and tools requirement. The aircraft zone and panel are specified in the task definition. |
| Approved Repair (REP) | Identifies a repair task where the work needed to make a component serviceable requires the physical alteration of the component. |
| Removal (RMVL) | A task for removing a component, this is usually a subtask to a replacement requirement (REPL). |
| Servicing (SRVC) | Routine tasks during which some equipment is being serviced; calibrating a tool is an example. |
| Test (TEST) | Work that results in some equipment being certified as being airworthy or serviceable. |
Like other types of task definitions in Maintenix, you can do the following for job card definitions:
- Create them for a part number or for a configuration slot. While a configuration slot job card definition is still in the Build status, you can move it to a different configuration slot.
- Assign them an organization.
- Include non-routine estimation information.
- Add task impacts, and Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM) references and attachments.
- Activate, make revisions, and make them obsolete. However, you cannot initialize job cards individually; they are initialized when their parent requirement task definition is initialized.
- Assign them to requirement definitions, and remove them from requirement definitions.
- Specify applicability ranges or rules to restrict the inventory to which the job card applies.
- If you add steps to a job card, you can do the following:
- Specify applicability ranges for individual steps. (Different steps within one job card can have different applicability ranges).
- Add skills to job card steps.
You cannot set scheduling information in job cards; job cards inherit the scheduling information from their parent requirement definition.