Below is a list of tips and tricks for the Manage Line Maintenance course. Click one of the items below to see information that may be helpful to you as you take the course. The standard racing database is defined to be reused at any point of time.
In the exercises you will see that most of the data are specified with prefix n, X or a combination of these. For example: nX747-900 (Part Number), X10000 (Serial Number) and nAC (Maintenance Group).
The use of prefixes has several advantages:
| Data Specification | Teacher | Student number n |
| Vehicle Part No | X747-900 | X747-900 |
| Revision | * | * |
| Top Part S/N | X10000 (or X11000) |
nX20000 |
| Structure Part S/N | X19999 | SN-1999 |
| Workshop | LAX-C LAX-L |
nLAX-C nLAX-L |
Exercises for the Operate Asset and Manage Line Maintenance courses are prepared for a work flow oriented execution. It means that you will NOT do all operational entry exercises first, then condition monitoring exercises, then task distribution exercises and finally task execution exercises.
Instead, you will do one operational entry, then handle this task, then do one more operational entry and condition monitoring, handle new tasks, then register a fault and handle that task, do one more operational entry etc. The idea is to take you through a more realistic way of working with the application. In each exercise there is a link to the next exercise and thereby takes you through all the exercises.
This also means that the instructor should go through all lessons before starting with the student exercises.
There is a number of predefined User IDs for the IFS/Vehicle Information Management (IFS/VIM) courses. This makes it easier for the instructor as he/she does not have to define users when starting a training course. Note: These users have been set up properly with company, site, employee, etc.:
| User ID | Role | Student Number | Company | Site |
| VIM | Main VIM user | - | 10 | 91 |
| JATA | Instructor | - | 10 | 91 |
| CHBE | Student | n=1 | 10 | 91 |
| COHO | Student | n=2 | 10 | 91 |
| FRFO | Student | n=3 | 10 | 91 |
| GEPI | Student | n=4 | 10 | 91 |
| JABR | Student | n=5 | 10 | 91 |
| JOHA | Student | n=6 | 10 | 91 |
| MIJA | Student | n=7 | 10 | 91 |
| PERO | Student | n=8 | 10 | 91 |
| RIST | Student | n=9 | 10 | 91 |
| ROPA | Student | n=10 | 10 | 91 |
The executable named Vehicle Information Management includes all the functionality needed to complete exercises in this course and the other courses related to IFS/VIM.
This window shows error messages from background jobs for IFS/Vehicle Information Management. Normally there should not be any error messages. In a distributed database system error messages may appear due to bad transmission conditions.
This window displays the actual and planned usage of all serials. Per serial all pending and running tasks are displayed along with planned operational and maintenance events. Modifications (to be performed) outside the planning horizon are also displayed along with deferred faults. The information in this window is aimed at supporting the selection of serials/vehicles for structure changes and operational planning.
Try this functionality after completing the Operate Asset - Operational Entry chapter.
This window displays information to support the selection of serials/vehicles for structure changes and operational planning.
This window contains several tabs to support fault trapping.
Try this functionality after ending the Operate Asset - Registering Faults and Events lesson.
This window shows all instruction operations that are to be executed on interval maintenance for a selected maintenance code.
The predefined maintenance program for part number X747-900 revision * contains relevant information. Attendees will enter relevant data during the Manage Maintenance Program course.
In this window you will find a multilevel presentation of the structure with maintenance data.
This view is designed to give an overview of data entered for a part prior to entering into service. It would be beneficial for the attendee to check part information after completing the Manage Maintenance Program course and prior to starting on the subsequent courses.
Use this window to compare the template structure for a given template part revision and structure position with the serial structure of a given serial.
Attendees will enter relevant data during the Manage Master Configuration and Manage Serialized Configuration courses. Otherwise use part number X747-900 revision * and Serial Number X10000.
When making a course, the main focus has been to present application level capability. In some extent this will form a historical view leading to proper data. Hence, attendees that have passed all IFS/Vehicle Information Management courses may recognize own entries which will give sense.
All parameters for background jobs are set to default values during system initialization. If there is a need for alteration this may only take effect once. No exercise connected to this part.
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