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Aircraft maintenance task cards transcribed from your approved maintenance data

On an aircraft, a task card is no place for interpretation. It must transcribe or reference the approved maintenance data exactly, apply only to the aircraft it names, and give each step a sign-off that a certifying engineer can stand behind. INKFLOW drafts maintenance task cards and work cards for maintenance organisations from the data they already hold under revision control.

If you searched for an aircraft maintenance manual, one point first: INKFLOW does not write an AMM for an aircraft type. That manual belongs to the type certificate holder. What it drafts are your organisation's task cards, built from the current AMM, CMM, IPC and wiring manual extracts you supply, in the card format your organisation uses.

Name the task cards in your brief and the writer works from guidance for maintenance documentation, asking for effectivity, the source data with its revision status, task references, values and limits, tools and parts, your work card standard, critical task list and approval route. The draft is written only from that approved data, every missing value is a placeholder, and the cards go through your own quality system and authorised engineers before use. It does not certify compliance with Part-145 or any other requirement.

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From approved data to aircraft task cards

  1. 1
    Fix the effectivity
    Aircraft type, model and serial or registration effectivity, so a card can never be used on an aircraft it does not apply to.
  2. 2
    Supply the data at its current revision
    AMM, CMM, IPC and wiring manual extracts with revision status, task references by ATA chapter or S1000D data module code, and the airworthiness directives and service bulletins that change a task.
  3. 3
    Show your card standard
    Your work card format, step sign-off rules, stamp or electronic signature method, zones and access panels, and planning data such as man-hours and skill categories.
  4. 4
    Authorised review
    Accept the quoted price, then have your authorised engineers check every card against its source and approve the set through your own procedures.

How each maintenance task card is built

Values exactly as published
Torques, pressures, clearances and test limits transcribed as they appear in the source, never derived, converted or rounded.
Independent inspection where you require it
Tasks on your critical maintenance task list carry the independent inspection or other error-capturing block your organisation specifies.
Set-up and close-up
Access panels and zones opened at the start, then closed and checked at the end, so nothing is left open or left behind.
Hazards from the data and your procedures
Warnings the source data gives, plus your organisation's procedures for fuel tank entry, ground runs and applying power.
Tools, parts and consumables
Part numbers from the tool list and illustrated parts catalogue, at the step that uses them.
Your publication standard
The writer asks whether your publications follow ATA iSpec 2200 or S1000D and whether Simplified Technical English is required, and drafts to that answer.

Task card responsibilities that stay with the maintenance organisation

INKFLOW does not hold approved data, does not decide which directives apply to your fleet and cannot sign or release anything. The certificate of release to service, and every judgement behind it, remain with your certifying staff.

Cards written from an out-of-date revision would be wrong however well they read, so the revision status you give is cited on the cards for your reviewers to check.

Questions

Can it write a maintenance manual for our aircraft?
Not an AMM. The manufacturer's approved data stays the source; INKFLOW drafts your organisation's task cards from the extracts you hold.
Does it suit UK and EASA Part-145 organisations?
The cards follow the card standard and procedures you give, which reflect your approval. The draft does not claim to meet any authority's requirements; your quality department decides that.
Can it work with S1000D?
Give the data module codes and say S1000D is your standard, and the cards reference them. INKFLOW writes text; it does not produce or validate S1000D XML.
What if a value in our data is unclear?
It is not guessed. The card shows a marked placeholder pointing back to the source reference, for your engineers to resolve.
Do prices include VAT?
Prices include any VAT; nothing is added at checkout.
We are an organisation. How can we pay?
Single orders are paid by card at checkout. For subscriptions and repeat orders, care homes, councils and businesses can ask about paying by Direct Debit or standing order at app.inkflowstudio.org/organisations.

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Every card traceable to the data it came from.

Tell us what it is for, and it is written to the standard. In the free sample, any figure that must come from your own material is left as a marked placeholder.

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