Maintenance Information at your Fingertips
Portable Maintenance Aid (PMA) is an interactive maintenance tool that allows mechanics and engineers to analyze and solve airplane problems at the work site -- in the hangar, on the shop floor, in the office, or at the flight line. All the information necessary to return the airplane to service in the minimum time is at your fingertips.
More than a collection of digitized technical manuals, PMA brings you:
- Extensive hyperlinks between related tasks, both within a manual and between manuals.
- Advanced search capability for instant access to your custom airline information as well as data in the OEM technical manuals.
- Powerful customization features that allow you to enrich the OEM data content in the manuals.
- Sophisticated deployment tools that ensure that your organization has the latest information at the point and time it needs it.
By making critical task information available at the work site, PMA reduces costs and increases productivity throughout the entire engineering and maintenance operation. Beyond line maintenance, use of PMA has grown to encompass a variety of maintenance operation centers (MOC), production planning, and hangar activities -- wherever maintenance documents are required.
- Line mechanics rely on PMA to provide on-airplane access to up-to-date information that helps reduce schedule delays and flight cancellations.
- MOCs use PMA to begin working problems while the airplane is still in transit.
- Engineers use PMA to create EOs and job cards, as well as to speed up help desk functions.
- Production planners use PMA for material and tooling utilization, work flow, and spare part staging plans.
- Base maintenance personnel find PMA an excellent productivity enhancer during heavy maintenance visits.
- Maintenance trainers carry PMA to field training sessions and use PMA in developing training materials.
PMA hyperlinks draw related data together. Whether you're navigating through the Fault Isolation Manual, Wiring Diagram Manual, Troubleshooting Schematics Manual, or Illustrated Parts Catalog, you can quickly find and display the necessary data using a simple, consistent user interface.
Boeing's Intelligent Graphics facilitate navigation in troubleshooting procedures and wiring diagrams.
See our list of available Boeing models and manuals.
PMA quickly locates key information. Whether you have specific information from your flight crew or an onboard maintenance computer or only a description of an observed fault, PMA helps you quickly determine the appropriate maintenance action necessary to return your airplane to service.
Specialized speed buttons on the PMA toolbar provide quick access to key information. PMA provides look-up capability for:
- EICAS/EIS Messages
- CMCS/CFDS Messages
- FCC/FAC Messages
- Alert Messages
- Fault Codes
- Maintenance Messages
- Observed Faults
- Electrical Equipment Numbers
- Part Numbers
PMA's powerful word search provides many options for finding one or more words. You can search the entire manual or just limit your search to a specific chapter or type of task. If you are looking for a specific illustration, PMA's Intelligent Graphics will allow you to focus on just illustration text or titles.
For more information, please see our brochure or contact us at:
Boeing Digital
P.O. Box 3707, MC: 2M-25
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
Phone: (206) 766-4400
e-mail:
MEPservices@boeing.com