Introducing CMFT

The Common Maintenance Factors Taxonomy (CMFT) has been developed to offer part 145 aircraft maintenance organisations a standard tool to assist with classification of factors related to occurrence reports. This will then facilitate the sharing of anonymised safety data to allow improved trend monitoring among organisations that contribute to the data set. Although regulators are also working on similar projects, long development timelines and slow rate of change has necessitated a more agile and disruptive approach to this data sharing activity.