Life Cycle Costing in Aircraft Maintenance

Observation of current practices in aircraft
operations and maintenance shows limited
consideration of cost savings applied by aircraft
modifications, maintenance program optimisation and
aircraft selection. This is due to hidden
(maintenance dependent) costs and difficulties in
quantifying the utilisation of a higher availability
or reduction of revenue losses. Most of the
decisions for aircraft modification and maintenance
program optimisation are made only to fulfil
airworthiness or operational requirements.

This situation can be improved by a better
quantification of the required investment and the
savings achieved by a proper evaluation of the
implemented modifications and maintenance program
optimisations. In this book Life Cycle Cost models
are developed, called LCC-OPS, which visualise the
hidden costs and quantify opportunity revenues or
losses.

This book should be especially useful for engineers
and managers in aircraft operations and maintenance,
or anyone else who may be considering the Life Cycle
Cost for evaluating design alternatives.

Autorentext

Edy Suwondo, Dr.: Studied Aerospace Engineering at Bandung
Institute of Technology (Indonesia); Studied Aircraft
Maintenance Engineering and Management at Delft University of
Technology (The Netherlands); Lecturer at Aerospace Engineering
Department, Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Bandung Institute of Technology.

Klappentext

Observation of current practices in aircraft
operations and maintenance shows limited
consideration of cost savings applied by aircraft
modifications, maintenance program optimisation and
aircraft selection. This is due to hidden
(maintenance dependent) costs and difficulties in
quantifying the utilisation of a higher availability
or reduction of revenue losses. Most of the
decisions for aircraft modification and maintenance
program optimisation are made only to fulfil
airworthiness or operational requirements.

This situation can be improved by a better
quantification of the required investment and the
savings achieved by a proper evaluation of the
implemented modifications and maintenance program
optimisations. In this book Life Cycle Cost models
are developed, called LCC-OPS, which visualise the
hidden costs and quantify opportunity revenues or
losses.

This book should be especially useful for engineers
and managers in aircraft operations and maintenance,
or anyone else who may be considering the Life Cycle
Cost for evaluating design alternatives.