Field Service preventive maintenance workflow example
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Summary of Field Service preventive maintenance workflow example
This example illustrates how an aircraft maintenance manager uses ServiceNow Field Service Management combined with Asset Management to automate preventive maintenance for aircraft. The solution replaces inefficient paper-based processes, providing real-time visibility and streamlining maintenance operations. It enables triggering diagnostic alerts and generating work orders based on flight hours, improving safety, compliance, and aircraft availability.
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Key Features
- Automated Maintenance Plans: Maintenance plans trigger alerts and create work orders automatically after specified flight hour thresholds (e.g., every 25 or 600 hours).
- Task Assignment: Work orders are assigned to field agents based on location, skills, and availability to ensure timely and qualified task execution.
- Field Agent Access: Technicians access asset details, service history, parts information, and relevant knowledge articles to efficiently perform maintenance tasks.
- Task Management: Agents can accept or reroute assigned tasks and update work order status upon completion.
- Integrated Scheduling: Completion of maintenance tasks automatically schedules the next appointment, maintaining continuous preventive care.
- Audit Trail and Reporting: All maintenance activities and data are tracked for trend analysis, reporting, audits, and compliance verification.
Workflow Steps
- Define Workflow: Create maintenance plans with scheduled diagnostic and extensive checks based on aircraft type and flight hours.
- Auto-generate Work Orders: System triggers work orders from templates when maintenance thresholds are met, assigning tasks automatically to suitable agents.
- Notify Technician: Field agents receive notifications and can accept or reroute tasks.
- Provide Comprehensive Maintenance: Agents utilize integrated asset data and knowledge resources to complete tasks accurately.
- Complete Work Order Tasks: Technicians update task status, prompting automatic scheduling of subsequent maintenance.
- Provide Audit Trail: Maintenance records are stored for future reference, supporting compliance and performance reviews.
- Report and Analyze: Maintenance data supports ongoing analysis, reporting, and compliance activities.
Key Outcomes
By implementing this preventive maintenance workflow, ServiceNow customers can expect improved operational efficiency, enhanced safety for passengers and crew, optimized asset availability, and simplified compliance management through comprehensive tracking and reporting of maintenance activities.
This Field Service preventive maintenance workflow example provides an example of an aircraft maintenance manager setting up a maintenance plan to trigger a diagnostic alert after every 25 hours of flight time.
An aircraft maintenance manager, Lisa, sets up a maintenance plan to trigger a diagnostic alert after every 25 flight hours. Lisa found their paper-based planning processes inefficient and lacking real-time visibility. This led to grounded aircraft and financial losses. Implementing ServiceNow Field Service Management with Asset Management made a significant difference.
Now, Lisa automates maintenance plans for each aircraft, triggering alerts and generating work orders for diagnostic tasks after every 25 and 600 hours of flight time. The system assigns tasks to avionics field agents based on location, skills, and availability, ensuring the best-qualified and closest field agent is sent to avoid delays.
Field agents log in to accept or reroute tasks and view aircraft details, service history, and parts to be checked from the integrated asset management system. They can also view recommendations from articles and past work orders. When they complete diagnostic tasks, the system schedules the next maintenance tasks. All work order information is saved for analysis, reporting, audits, and compliance.
With Field Service Management, Lisa ensures passenger and crew safety, boosts revenue by optimizing aircraft availability, and meets compliance needs by reviewing work order data to spot trends.
Field Service Preventive maintenance workflow diagram
Field Service Preventive maintenance workflow steps
| Steps | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Define workflow | The aircraft maintenance manager creates a maintenance plan and schedules maintenance, for example, so that diagnostic verification must be completed before 60 hours and more extensive checks performed every 200 hours, depending on the aircraft type. |
| 2. Auto-generate work orders | The maintenance plan automatically creates one or more work orders when a trigger threshold is met. Templates containing the appropriate series of repeatable tasks for each aircraft type are used to create tasks for each work order. These tasks are assigned automatically to agents based on their location, availability, and skills. |
| 3. Notify technician | The field agent is notified about the task assignment. The agent can log in to see and accept (or reroute) the task that needs to be executed to finish the maintenance diagnostic. |
| 4. Provide comprehensive maintenance | With integrated Asset Management, the agent can see asset details, such as subcomponents, service history, and information on which parts need to be replaced or serviced. In addition, the technician can get recommendations, directions, tips from knowledge articles, and information from previous work orders to help complete the task. |
| 5. Complete the work order tasks | Once the technician finishes the maintenance and updates the task, the next planned maintenance appointment is scheduled and assigned automatically. |
| 6. Provide audit trail | All completed tasks and data are tracked in the maintenance plan records for future reference, so administrators can easily pull data needed for trend analysis, reports, and audits to satisfy compliance requirements. |
| 7. Report and analyze | Track tasks and data in a maintenance plan to support future analysis, reporting, audits, and compliance activity. |