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Trends to Watch Out for in 2017

How the two much discussed technologies - the

Internet of Things (IoT) and augmented reality - will

develop dramatically

he civil aviation industry is one of the The Internet of Flying Things
most asset-intensive industries in the To put this into context, the number of
world. With parts that are high-cost detectable faults on a Boeing 767 in the
Tand low in numbers, even the slightest 1980s was 9,000. Now, intelligent sensors on
of improvements in asset functionality and a Boeing 787 can detect 45,000 faults, five
maintenance can yield significant cost and times as many as 30 years ago. With AHMS,
efficiency advantages. data from one aircraft detecting a fault can
be used to analyze an entire fleet for the
Giving Fleets a Healthy Check-up same problem.
The civil aviation industry is booming. The ROI from AHMS in civil aviation is
Aircraft fleets are set to triple by 2034 in plain to see. The streamlining of maintenance
the Asia-Pacific region, superseding both operations and the almost instant reactions
North America and Europe, while carriers to faults that AHMS brings could drastically
in the Middle East had the strongest annual reduce the chance of aircraft on ground
traffic growth in 2015. The Internet of (AOG) for airlines - the cost of which ranges
Things (IoT) market is following this lead. between $10,000 and $150,000 for just a
Gartner predicts there will be over 20 billion couple of hours of downtime. This is a major
connected ‘things’ in use by 2020, with total benefit as most airlines need every possible
spending topping $3 trillion globally. piece of revenue from every single flight just IoT and predictive maintenance allows
These two together will drive the use of to break even. for better sharing of both operational and
Aircraft Health Monitoring Systems (AHMS) I predict we will see a rise in the number maintenance experiences between airlines,
in 2017. AHMS bring vast improvements in of operators adopting AHMS, driven by aircraft operators and 3rd party MROs,
the utilization and analysis of big data to affordable IoT-enabled sensors, powerful enabling further cost reductions. By feeding
enhance availability, reliability and safety of data processing systems and machine the data into the EAM or MRO solution, the
aircraft, which in turn drives the take up of learning - enabling airlines to make processes parts can be sourced and the work schedules
condition-based maintenance (CBM) projects smarter and maintenance leaner. of engineers changed - meaning potential
to streamline MRO. An Oliver Wyman MRO down-time can be drastically reduced. But
Survey reported that 63% of respondents The Next Step airlines aren’t stopping there.
from leading airlines said AHMS increased Global MRO spend is anticipated to
reliability, with 35% also saying that it helped increase by 46% by 2026, driven by Giving Maintenance a Healthy
reduce maintenance costs. a combination of growing passenger Prescription
The collection and analysis of data from numbers and aircraft fleets. Because of Prescriptive maintenance is the next
IoT-enabled sensors constantly measuring this, airlines are looking at the next step in step beyond simply predicting the status
aircraft health and performance can consider asset management, from condition-based of an asset. While predictive analytics
factors such as speed, torque, vibrations maintenance to predictive maintenance, answer the ‘what will happen, when and
and pressure data to pinpoint faults before able to detect early signs of potential why’, prescriptive goes one step further,
they become a major problem and provide failure and rectify matters before it allowing operators to not only predict what
actionable information to make better impacts service delivery. will happen, but offer ‘what if’ scenarios to
informed and more focused maintenance Picking out the relevant data patterns show how each possible event will impact
decisions. These in turn could reduce being fed back out of the myriad of operations.
cancellations, improve operational and information produced through IoT- IoT data is fed back from the sensor into
flight safety, reduce fuel consumption, help enabled parts, will allow the true benefit of the analytical system to optimally define
identify rogue serial numbers and enhance scheduled maintenance to be extended into the prescribed maintenance activities
both passenger and crew experience. every aspect of the MRO support chain. based on the best outcome, in terms of
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