Is Predictive maintenance On Your Agenda?
Before we start talking about how to get started with predictive maintenance and its benefits of it. Let’s focus on one rather important point here namely data quality and data standardization!
Probably you are familiar with the term garbage in garbage out – you cannot drive value from data and make the right decisions on flawed data. Hence, before starting with predictive maintenance you need to work on your data.
But the question is, where to start? If you have been using your MRO/M&E system for let’s say 10 years and have a fleet of around 50 aircraft tons of terabytes of data reside in the MRO/M&E system and every day more data is added to the system. It can be like facing the basement in your house or your storage where you have added stuff every day for the last 10 years and now is the time to clean it up, organize, and label everything so that you know what you have and can find it back easily when you need it.
Having your data organized, cleansed, labeled, identifying, and filling the gaps is needed for predictive maintenance, your digitization strategy, and airworthiness compliance.
The below example shows how we helped one of the largest helicopter operators in the world with their data challenges to improve data quality and reduce the risk of non-compliance.
By using our software solution NEXUS this customer now monitors and manages its data easily. The function they use is the NEXUS data health report to identify flawed data added to the system.
Customer Example
When one of the world’s largest helicopter operators knew that the data residing in their MRO software system led to the grounding of aircraft, they turned to EXSYN. We conducted a full data health analysis of the MRO software system to identify current deficiencies, gaps, and issues arising out of data avoiding future groundings.
Situation
The helicopter operator is using its current MRO software system for more than 10 years. Data integrity issues caused by the initial data migration impair the usage of the MRO software system. This has led to inconsistent airworthiness data resulting in the grounding of aircraft and the creation of multiple workarounds in business processes
Solution
A means to conduct fully automatic data validation and airworthiness consistency checks to maintain a standardized level of aircraft data quality. Covering areas such as maintenance programs, ADs, SBs, Mods, Aircraft configuration, Maintenance Last Done & Next Due, Hours & Cycles accumulation, part assemblies, and much more. Being able to directly identify required actions to avoid aircraft data issues that might result in the grounding of aircraft.
By using our software solution NEXUS the helicopter operator now monitors and manages its data easily and identifies flawed data added to the system.
Benefits
Reduce the risk of Non-compliance; All airworthiness compliance data is fully and correctly available in the MRO software system.
An understandable dashboard per aircraft shows where the most urgent issues exist requiring immediate attention.
Next to the dashboard a detailed report per aircraft registration allows engineering staff a full overview of all data issues per helicopter and determines the required action.
All gaps and deficiencies have been identified and can be eliminated to avoid future groundings and penalties. Additionally, manual workarounds were eliminated that caused inconsistencies in the data and as such reduced total costs of ownership.
Are you facing the same challenges as this operator or are you planning to
sell an aircraft or deliver it back to the owner;
replace their current main MRO/M&E system;
perform an Airworthiness Review
or do not trust the data in your MRO/M&E system?
Then we are here to help you with our expertise and software solution NEXUS.
If you would like to discuss your challenges and how we might help your or for a demo of NEXUS contact us via the below button or send an email to hello@exsyn.com.
