Assess if maintenance has any impact on overall reliability. Study and analyze the relationships between reliability and scheduled maintenance. Solution The Effects of Maintenance on Reliability By Bill Brinkley AP / IA Manager of Reliability and Development USAirways Express / Piedmont Airlines Publisher\'s Note: I will caution you that a) Bill Brinkley comes from the commercial Aviation industry where reliability is not optional and b) he pulls no punches when speaking to industrial maintenance professionals. I an interested in hearing what you can take away from this paper that was presented at IMC-2007. You can email me your comments or you canpost them here. In an airline environment, maintenance is king. An aircraft receives about 17 man-hours of maintenance for every flight hour. That may seem excessive - unless you are the one riding in that aircraft. So.

1. Assess if maintenance has any impact on overall reliability.
Study and analyze the relationships between reliability and scheduled maintenance.
Solution
The Effects of Maintenance on Reliability
By Bill Brinkley AP / IA
Manager of Reliability and Development
USAirways Express / Piedmont Airlines
Publisher's Note: I will caution you that a) Bill Brinkley comes from the commercial Aviation
industry where reliability is not optional and b) he pulls no punches when speaking to industrial
maintenance professionals. I an interested in hearing what you can take away from this paper that
was presented at IMC-2007. You can email me your comments or you canpost them here.
In an airline environment, maintenance is king. An aircraft receives about 17 man-hours of
maintenance for every flight hour. That may seem excessive - unless you are the one riding in
that aircraft. So