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SPECIAL FEATURE
TURE

Preventive to Predictive

Predictive Maintenance is emerging as one of the key competitive advantages that will
enable MROs and operators to improve airline operations
By Jay Menon
IMAGINE A LANdING GEAR ANNOUNCING when in-service equipment is most likely to
that it’s approaching need of a repair. It need maintenance. By triggering specific
really can, with predictive maintenance maintenance operations only when they are
(PM) based on constant monitoring of actually needed, predictive maintenance
operating conditions, activities and events. helps optimise maintenance planning and
Timing maintenance procedures to match allocation of capacity, which in the airline
maintenance needs is improving rapidly, industry alone could reduce maintenance
thanks to Big Data analytics, while smarter labor costs by 5 per cent -10 per cent,
equipment is able to provide operators with observers feel.
real-time condition information. With the “Global MRO spend is anticipated to
Predictive maintenance is cost advantage now favouring the continued increase by 46 per cent by 2026, driven
providing customers with a greater operation of older fleets, the competitive by a combination of growing passenger
insight into the condition of their edge now lies with new maintenance numbers and aircraft fleets. Because of
fleet, allowing potential failures techniques and technologies. this, airlines are looking at the next step in
to be identified before they occur.
The result is increased aircraft As its name implies, predictive asset management, from condition-based
availability and improved safety maintenance uses techniques to determine maintenance to predictive maintenance, able
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