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The purpose of this standard is to provide a source of definitions of terms and acronyms commonly used in the air transport maintenance community for test and evaluation with an emphasis on terms applicable to BITE.

The purpose of this document is to establish guidelines that should be observed during initial design, production, and maintenance of aircraft components, and to present short-term and long-term strategies to minimize the costs and impacts associated with decreasing availability of components.

ARINC Report 847: Product Development Guidance for Maintainability and Testability (PDMaT) is intended to be used as guidance to enhance the design of avionic equipment, with a focus on maintainability and testability characteristics. It is a separate and parallel standard to ARINC Report 607: Design Guidance for Avionic Equipment. This document does not represent the complete formula for successfully designing and manufacturing avionics equipment or system. It does present the vision of the airline community based on extensive experience gained through the use of such equipment.

This document provides guidance for using industry standards for developing a soldering program tailored to meet the specific requirements of the user. Moreover, it provides uniform guidance for maintenance facilities based on industry standards and, therefore, should be accepted throughout the air transport industry. This document is not a stand-alone document - it is intended to be used with the referenced international industry standards.

This document provides operators with guidelines for developing maintenance support contracts with suppliers. It identifies common supplier support products, services, and data; why these are important to maintenance organizations; and the impact on airline operating costs if they are not available.

This document provides guidance for the use of international standards for the maintenance of lead-free electronic equipment. The purpose is to assist manufacturers, maintenance facilities, and operators to define lead-free soldering requirements and to minimize the set of lead-free solders, processes, and practices to gain consistency across the industry.

Avionics maintenance practices continue to improve through On-Board Maintenance System (OMS) recording. This standard defines the OMS which incorporates fault monitoring fault detection, BITE, and airplane condition monitoring system.

This document provides industry guidance to supplement ATA standards and airframe requirements, addressing gaps and vague areas to move suppliers/vendors and airframers toward a common standard for format and wording in Vendor Service Bulletins (VSB) for Air Transport components. This document supplements the VSB guidance of iSpec 2200, providing clarity of requirements and resulting in a common standard wording and format of VSBs from all suppliers on all aircraft types. The guidance in this document is intended to be applied to VSBs created and released subsequent to the release of the guidance document and will not require the retroactive update of VSBs released prior to the creation and release of the guidance.

Defines a generalized process by which anomalies in aircraft systems can be detected. This process is intended to improve timely isolation and resolution of those anomalies. The objective is to reduce costs to the airlines, airframe manufacturers and aircraft systems suppliers by removing anomalous behavior from aircraft systems in a timely manner.

The purpose of this document is to establish guidance for Aircraft Support Data Management (ASDM). This guidance is intended for operators (e.g., pilot-in-command, maintenance activities, renter-pilot, or air carrier certificate holder) of transport aircraft.

Industry rules and guidelines support/mandate equivalency, but provide very little guidance on how to realize MPP substitution. Currently, industry guidelines fail to provide adequate direction to maintenance facilities for material, process, and part equivalencies. Suitable substantiation procedures to be able to select alternate materials are demanded by the air transport industry. The purpose of ARINC Report 670 is to provide clear definitions for materials, processes, parts, substantiation requirements, decision boundaries and limitations, and a standard process for equivalency determination. This report is intended as general guidance for avionics maintenance facilities; however, this does not preclude its use for other sectors of aircraft maintenance as appropriate.

The goal of this document is to provide the basis for a structured process to identify, analyze and resolve NFF issues. The NFF issues include providing guidance for decision making pertinent to the root causes of NFF, enabling action in an early stage of the component repair cycle, reducing costs involved with units unnecessarily removed from an aircraft (e.g. maintenance practices, operational factors, training, documentation etc.), highlighting the need for addressing the causes of NFF through component and system design, addressing the development/improvement of maintenance processes, and providing a framework for the interaction between the different domains for the users of this document (listed below) to implement their own strategies.

This standard provides guidance to those who develop avionics test programs and the source documentation on which they are based. This includes guidelines for all steps and phases within the TPS life cycle.

ARINC 668 provides guidelines for the process used to establish the equivalency of TTE and related procedures other than that recommended by the OEM. Primarily, ARINC 668 is concerned with equipment specified or recommended for the purpose of performing specific tasks concerning the airworthiness of an article (e.g., avionics, hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical devices, etc.).

ARINC Report 663 focuses on the many aspects related to component technical data and documentation including a common understanding of levels one - three maintenance (test, repair, re-certification). This includes defining the extent and format of OEM documentation to be delivered to the airline customers to support both the decision and technical requirements to accomplish level three maintenance; establishing minimum data requirements to support the airlines' decision relative to the accomplishment of level three maintenance (test solution, type of repair process, projected MTBF, modification potential, unit cost, alternative repairs, etc.); and identifying the minimum technical data requirements to support level three maintenance in airline shops for future avionics components (test, documentation).