If you’re a Dash 8 operator, aircraft MRO, or lessor, this post is for you.
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Do you have surplus aircraft part inventory?
This unnecessary buildup occurs when you order inventory in preparation for near term consumption.
When that consumption never occurs. Voila! Surplus inventory builds up.
Here’s the impact that this causes to your operation.
It’s not the price you pay, how business savvy you are, or how excellent your negotiation skills are. This is the MOST IMPORTANT skill you need when purchasing aircraft parts.
Your surplus aircraft material was sitting. Rotting. Wasting away on your shelves.
Slowly eating away at your operational results. Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.
Cash was being sucked down the surplus drain. And the only thing you could do was…
Price. How important is it to you? How often do you try and get the lowest price? I’m sure you’re thinking to yourself, “It’s incredibly important.” and “Every chance I get.” And that’s fair. It’s also common to ask how much something costs. Or to reduce the cost of something. We often use price and cost interchangeably. That’s a mistake.
You can’t purchase an APU without knowing the quality and still expect good results. Quality needs to be discussed and evaluated before you purchase.
There are a lot of aspects to quality, and they dictate everything from how much you spend to how long your lead times are…and how much stress you add to your workday.
Do you often wonder why quality is such a problem? From the screams and yells by your quality assurance manager to the stops in distribution from your CAMO, life in aircraft maintenance can be rough.
It’s a test of your courage, a test of your patience, a test of your will.
Nothing is more frustrating and nothing halts productivity like quality issues.
You’ve experienced it.
You know how it feels.
It’s the morning when your parts supplier ships you an alternate when the alternate isn't effective on your aircraft, when they send you an overhauled unit without the proper airworthiness certification, or when they ship you material with crappy packaging and your $20,000 part got damaged in transit.
These are quality issues and these are what’s causing you to lose your hair.
The fact is, quality is a perfect way to cut long-term aircraft maintenance cost and it's stupidly simple.
Yes, stupidly simple.
Let’s see how…
Playing with fire in aviation is like being burned by 2,700 degrees fahrenheit jet fuel.
I’ll take my chances with ice.
Working under fire never leads to a productive aircraft maintenance plan.
Mistakes will happen, productivity will be lost and your sanity will get tested.
Not to mention, you’re stress and problems will then be pushed down to your partners, bottlenecking you entire distribution
Creating an aircraft maintenance plan will help you offset your chaotic distribution.
Here are a few ways to prepare yourself:
Sorry to break it to you but quality is simple.
It’s about good products, good inspections, good processes and most of all, good partners.
Aircraft maintenance is a hosh posh (what does that mean?) of logistics and hundreds of hands involved for the end, successful work order and a healthy plane back in the air.
Because of course, that’s where you make money.
Quality is all about purpose. If your partners do not have a purpose then they do not have quality. Purpose is not just supplying parts for your aircraft maintenance. Skylink’s purpose is to cut your aviation stress so you can be more productive, happy and truly know someone cares about you.
It’s about solving problems, being a resource and most of all being a trustworthy expert in the field.
Your partners should help solve issues before you even have to ask.
That is true quality at it’s best.
