A question for anyone running a DOA or managing it inside a bigger group (MRO, airline) or a TC holder: How many hours a week do your most senior airworthiness engineers spend not judging compliance, but administering it? Updating status, keeping the checklist in-sync after each change, copying evidence references between a spreadsheet, a Word file and the PLM?
For most teams it's a number exceeding 50% of this person's time. And it's the one number that never makes it into a budget conversation, because manual admin hides inside headcount you already have.
$$$ If it were a line item, someone would have questioned it years ago. Especially considering that it is likely to be the most expensive data entry in the building :)
How visible is this in your organisation? Does anyone above engineering level actually see that cost? Or question it? IF you are interested, we can show you real world cases with actual percent savings. We look forward to hearing from you!