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fEATURE PRATT & WHITNEY
Thinking Big
Pratt & Whitney wants all unplanned maintenance event to become a thing of the past
By Jay Menon
YOU’RE ALL SET TO ATTENd AN URGENT Pratt & Whitney is applying “Big Data”
business meeting, you’re on the aircraft, analytics in a series of projects underway
you’re on the tarmac and next in line for — 14 in total — to improve engine
takeoff and the pilot is about to power performance and customer service. The
up that engine. At that moment, the last first example will be a predictive model,
thing you want to hear on the PA could being developed in-house by Pratt &
be: “There is a maintenance alert in the Whitney engineers and analysts, to
cockpit, and we have to return to the gate.” monitor “engine event” performance.
In one of the most successful These “unplanned maintenance Using data analytics to monitor engine
development projects to date, event” will become a thing of the past performance is nothing new at Pratt &
the predictive model to monitor as jet engine maker Pratt and Whitney is Whitney, company executives say, but a shift
engine event performance, will investing in new technology that allows it in the aftermarket business and advances
lead to an increasingly proactive
approach in maintenance to “capture every parameter, from every in technology mean new opportunities to
planning and requirements engine, every second.” deliver customer value through Big Data.
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