Aero engines are extremely reliable machines and operational failures are rare. However, currently great effort is being put into reducing the number of in-flight engine shutdowns, aborted take-offs and flight delays through the use of advanced engine health monitoring technology. This represents a benefit to society through reduced delays, reduced anxiety and reduced cost of ownership of aircraft. This is reflected in a change of emphasis within companies such as Rolls-Royce Plc where instead of selling engines to customers there is a fundamental shift to adoption of power-by-the-hour contracts. In these airlines make fixed regular payments based on the hours flown and the engine manufacturer retains responsibility for maintaining the engine. To support this new approach improvements in in-flight monitoring of engines are being introduced with the collection of much more detailed data on the operation of the engine. At the same time advances have been made in WWW technologies providing a world wide network that can be used to download data. The explosion of available data also presents its own problems and here it is necessary to work on advanced decision support systems to identify the useful information in the data and provide advice between individual aircraft, airline repair and overhaul bases, world-wide data warehouses and the engine manufacturer. (7 pages)
Future trends in aircraft engine monitoring
01.01.2003
1 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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