Lead Time Reduction of Flight Test Documentation

Abstract

Project work is being carried out at Pratt and Whitney in Puerto Rico were Flight Testing Documents are drafted and delivered to Flight Test Managers in Pratt and Whitney USA. The current process Lead Time was calculated to be 40.58 days which was too high for Flight Test Managers. With the use of quality tools like Value Stream Mapping and Root Cause Analysis, the Lead Time was reduced to 28.92 days. This was achieved thanks to the removal of non-value added tasks and steps of the process Key Terms ⎯ Flight Test Document, Lead Time, Value Added, Value Stream Mapping,