Case Study - Republic Airways Realizes Productivity Gains
Client
Republic Airways, a Midwest-based regional carrier that operates flights for companies such as American, Delta, US Airways, Continental, Midwest Airlines and United.
Challenge
Improve the scheduled maintenance process to reduce the amount of time an aircraft spent in the maintenance cycle. Reducing the maintenance cycle by five days was the equivalent of adding an aircraft to the fleet, which represents $1 million that could be in the air generating revenue.
Solution
TBM and client managers implement lean and conduct business process kaizen events to maintain safety while reducing overall maintenance cycle time with standard work, work load leveling and 5S.
Results
The airline was able to remove one full day from its C-check (heavy maintenance) process. The lean transformation is being completed in phases, and the results presented here are from the first phase of work undertaken.
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