Aircraft Maintenance (part 2)
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Complex behaviour
All aircraft operators must perform short-term maintenance planning. This problem involves analysing all the potential maintenance tasks for each individual aircraft and determining exactly when and where each task should be performed. These tasks can range from an engine inspection, to replacing worn tyres or servicing the galley ovens.
All these individual maintenance tasks must be analysed together to create a coherent and efficient maintenance plan.
A typical aircraft will have many hundreds of maintenance tasks. Each task will have a complex risk profile based on the life history of the part involved and the aircraft’s flight profile.
The cost of a failure will also vary depending on the criticality of the task, the aircraft’s location at the time of failure, and even the passenger load on that particular leg of the flight.
Rapid planning
The short-term planning element of Erudine-Innovation Works system is required to analyse all of these factors and produce the best possible maintenance plan. With short turnaround times at each location, airlines need to use the optimal maintenance plan to reduce costs and limit the possibility of delays or cancellations.
Innovation Works initially helped to develop an Operational Risk Assessment (ORA) to simulate potential maintenance plans. However, the number of combinations produced can run into the millions and a powerful solution was needed to rapidly isolate the best plans and provide contextual filtering.
The Behaviour Engine’s pattern-matching and high-performance data processing, combined with its rapid development capabilities, made it the perfect choice for this situation.
Erudine’s Behaviour Engine is a technology proven to be extremely capable in capturing and processing highly complex rules and running intelligent decision support in critical environments