In a commercial environment, it is seldom possible to make large amendments to maintenance schedules, or eliminate time pressures. The essence of workload management in aircraft maintenance should include:
- ensuring that staff have the necessary skills;
- making sure that staff have the tools and spares they need;
- allocating tasks to engineers that are accomplishable without cutting corners in the time available;
Thus, although workload varies in aircraft maintenance engineering, the workload of engineers can be moderated. Much of this can be done by careful forward planning.