Creating work orders

A work order specifies the information about the work that must be done for the aircraft, piece of equipment, a location, or a rotable part. You can add work cards, job cards, or safety plans. You can also record actuals as the work progresses.

About this task

You create work orders in the Work Order Tracking application. If you previously created similar work orders, you can save time by using the Duplicate Work Order action.

You can duplicate a work order with its operations, without its operations, or with its hierarchy. When you duplicate a work order hierarchy, the child operations are also duplicated. If a work order that you are duplicating has a job card or a safety plan, these plans are copied to the duplicate work order. Work actuals, failure reports, and planned moves or modifications are not copied to the duplicate work order.

Procedure

  1. In the Work Order Tracking application, click the New Work Order icon in the toolbar.
  2. Specify whether you are creating the work order for a location, aircraft, piece of equipment, rotable part, or general ledger account.
    If a selected location has a single associated aircraft or piece of equipment, the value of the aircraft or piece of equipment is copied to the record.
  3. Optional: Specify a type for the work order and the priority of the work order for scheduling purposes.
  4. Specify any additional schedule information and responsibility information.
    You can specify a job card, safety plan, failure class, scheduling information, and planned labor, materials, tools, and services.
  5. Save the work order.

What to do next

Select the Work Order Hierarchy > Create action to quickly create simple work order hierarchies when needed. If you require a more structured method of defining a work order hierarchy, create a work package in the Work Packages application.