Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul or MRO is a term commonly used in aviation to label a maintenance facility, whether as part of an airline, an aircraft maintenance unit, an aircraft maintenance facility, or a military facility. Safety requirements are stringent, and MRO within aviation is highly regulated.
Centrik allows the creation of MRO based qualifications and the production of a system generated licence to Engineers. MRO qualifications usually take the form of prerequisite training taking place in order for an MRO qualification to be issued or revalidated.
MRO can be enabled on your site by Centrik, once enabled the qualifications and licence areas can be configured by the organisation.
Qualifications for MRO are created in the same way as any other qualification.
1. Click on the Training subsystem (config required to MRO)
2. Click on the ‘Setup’ button
3. Click on the ‘Qualifications’ button
As part of the MRO qualification an authorisations area can be created within Centrik via the TrustFlight Support team and the qualification type set to MRO Authorisation.
The authorisations are configurable by the organisation and can be renamed to suit internal requirements.
Authorisations for MRO are created in the same way as any qualifications within Centrik apart from the addition of a specific MRO Skills Configuration area.
4. Click on one of the authorisations
Skills – Often referred to as “functions”
Skill Sets – The distinct categories of the licence
To have oversight of the areas within the Skills and the Skill Sets click on the relevant ‘Play’ button, you are able to add or edit these where required.
Revalidation Section:
All selectable options within this section should be set to 'No' these include - Revalidate by Check, Revalidate by training, Revalidate as part of LPC/OPC or LPC and Revalidate as part of LC.
The last area in this section - Revalidate by recording the following document must be set to a valid document type, it cannot be left blank.
MRO Skills:
MRO Skills can be added to by using the ‘+ Add’ button or edited by using the ‘Edit button.
MRO Skill Sets:
MRO Skill Sets can be added to by using the ‘Add’ button or edited by using the ‘Edit’ button.
Once the Authorisations have been setup you are able to add in qualifications previously created, these form a prerequisite of the authorisation, they must be completed and in date before an authorisation can be started or updated.
Adapting previously created qualifications to form part of the authorisation is very straightforward.
1. Select a qualification from another qualification heading the qualification’s setup area
2. Within the top section of the qualification select ‘YES’ from the drop down under the Is Required for MRO Authorisations (if editing an existing qualification, the ‘Edit’ button will need to be clicked before this step)
3. Continue to create, or edit the qualification and when completed click on the ‘Save’ button
4. Continue adding or creating all qualifications that are applicable to the MRO authorisation
5. Navigate to the Currency area of training for that subsystem
6. Select a staff member by clicking on their name
7. Click on the button Engineer ‘Details’
8. Click on the ‘Edit’ button
9. Select the aircraft type, or types applicable, alongside the authorisations that have been setup for these aircraft.
10. Click on the ‘Save’ button