Newton Consulting Australia Capability Statement

Case study

Reducing Aircraft Maintenance Time Aircraft MRO

We partnered with a specialist airline operator in the process of carrying out critical fleet maintenance enabling them to increase availability, profitability and help secure the future of an existing contract.

Our Impact

Client challenge

26% Reduction in days taken to carry out heavy maintenance visits

Eight months

Completed diagnostic, identified opportunity to improve turnarounds by 38%, across maintenance, planning and supply chain

The client’s projected maintenance schedule was unachievable at current productivity levels, which would have led to lost availability and therefore flying revenue during a key contract negotiation period.

Delivered 4 workstreams to reduce maintenance time:

Optimised maintenance plan to ensure work orders are grouped efficiently, preventing lost days

Redesigned system of work to ensure sufficient enabled work, and tasking process to ensure engineers always able to be deployed productively

Complexities

Individuals working to the redesigned system of work 130+

$60m+

Acute global skills shortage in engineering workforce and unionised environment

Driving part availability through improved demand signal to supplier, stock and supplier management

Risk avoided due to productivity increase for heavy maintenance visits

Ensuring all managers have appropriate skills across technical, operations & people capabilities to manage and motivate their teams

Spares could only be sourced from one supplier due to contractual exclusivity clause

Handover of co-designed capability to client team to ensure sustainability of changes

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