Your first day in MaintSpace

Overview

MaintSpace supports your full maintenance operation:

• Plan maintenance
• Manage inventory
• Execute work
• Ensure compliance

On your first day, focus on setting up the basics so your workflows are ready.

Step 1: Set up your organization

Start in Administration:

• Review Account Settings
• Create your users
• Assign roles and permissions
• Set up personnel authorizations

This ensures your team has the correct access.

Step 2: Set up your aircraft

Go to Maintenance Planning:

• Create or review aircraft models
• Create your aircraft
• Ensure aircraft are correctly configured

This forms the foundation for all maintenance activities.

Step 3: Define your maintenance setup

Still in Maintenance Planning:

• Create maintenance schedules
• Set up components (if applicable)
• Understand work packages

This defines what maintenance needs to be done and when.

Step 4: Set up your inventory

Go to Inventory:

• Create items
• Receive parts into stock
• Organize locations
• Understand batches and traceability

This ensures you have parts available for maintenance.

Step 5: Set up purchasing

Go to Purchasing:

• Add suppliers
• Create your first purchase order
• Understand how to manage invoices

This ensures you can order and track parts.

Step 6: Start planning work

Back in Maintenance Planning:

• Create work packages
• Create work orders
• Log and track defects

This prepares your operational work.

Step 7: Execute work

Go to Production:

• Work on work orders
• Log time entries
• Track tool usage

This is where maintenance is performed and documented.

Step 8: Manage compliance

Go to Engineering:

• Store technical records
• Track airworthiness directives (ADs)

This ensures compliance and audit readiness.

Step 9: Connect with FlightLogger (optional)

If you use FlightLogger:

• Configure FlightLogger Sync
• Verify aircraft matching
• Monitor synced data

This connects operations and maintenance.