Improving Maintenance Activities by the Usage of BOL Data

Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) defines the integration of different kinds of activities, from a technical, organizational and managerial point of view. These activities are performed by engineering staff throughout the entire life cycle of industrial products. To improve PLM, the information which is gained within a specific PL phase should be made available and used along the entire life cycle. This position paper describes how the No-fault-found (NFF) problem can benefit from transferring information from BOL into MOL. The application field of avionics is considered, in particular the generated information in the test process of BOL and the relevance of NFF. For this purpose, the article presents an approach by ARINC 672 for reducing NFF phenomenon. On basis of this approach the authors propose an extension to insert the information of test process’ results proactive into the ARINC 672 approach. The extension has a visionary nature and does not consider technical background of the BOL and MOL of aircrafts. Finally the position paper motivates the next necessary steps to bring the proposed extension to its applicability.