Fleet analytic services toolset

• US 10,521,979 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2016
• Issued: 12/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Martin Marietta Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Martin Marietta Corporation)
• Inventors: Clark, IV, Cyrus, Hensley, Philip A., Bohm, Darlene, Iyer, Rajesh, Lynch, Christopher, Kacprzynski, Gregory J., Kingsley, Michael C., Lohr, Tina, Read, William, Koelemay, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Sweeney, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US15/555,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20180047224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• Field of Search: 701 293
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/12 in graphical form

Abstract

A system for providing fleet analytic services for a fleet includes a fleet interface to receive fleet data associated with operation and maintenance of the fleet; a memory to store the fleet data; a processor to implement a plurality of fleet analytic services modules to process and analyze fleet data for opportunities to improve maintenance, operations, costs, readiness, health and supply/logistics; a user input/output interface to receive commands from a user and output results of the plurality of fleet analytic services modules.

Claims

1. A system for generating fleet analytic services for a fleet, the system comprising:

a fleet interface to receive fleet data associated with operation and maintenance of the fleet;

a user input/output interface to receive commands from a user and output results;

a memory for storing fleet data and having computer readable instructions; and

one or more processors for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions controlling the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

analyzing fleet data for opportunities to improve maintenance, operations, costs, readiness, health and supply/logistics,

identifying adverse operational, maintenance, cost, and readiness drivers and trends within the fleet data based on analysis of maintenance and operations, and

generating readiness drivers of a first population of vehicles and readiness drivers of a second population of vehicles,

wherein the fleet data includes data associated with an entire fleet of vehicles or products, data associated with a single vehicle or product, or data associated with a component of a vehicle or product.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising processing the fleet data and generate corrected data.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising generating a data quality report indicating of at least one of missing data, data formats, data changes since a prior report and data anomalies.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising calculating scoring of the corrected data in generation of the conditioned data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising generating fleet status and/or demographic information.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising revealing probable root-cause(s) of adverse drivers or trends in response to fleet data.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising generating cost drivers, trends and contributing factors in response to the fleet data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising determining fleet readiness drivers, trends and contributing factors in response to the fleet data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising detecting anomalies and/or adverse current and/or future conditions in the fleet data and determining feedback indicative of the anomalies.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising recommending maintenance actions in response to the fleet data.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising generating supply, demand, and inventory postures, and to recommend logistics, supply, repair, purchasing and/or production actions in response to the fleet data.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further perform operations comprising:

processing the fleet data and generate corrected data;

receiving the corrected data and generate conditioned data;

generating fleet status and/or demographic information in response to the conditioned data;

identifying adverse operational, maintenance, cost and readiness drivers and trends within the conditioned data;

revealing probable root-cause(s) of adverse drivers or trends in response to the conditioned data;

determining cost drivers, trends and contributing factors in response to the conditioned data;

generating fleet readiness drivers, trends and contributing factors in response to the conditioned data;

detecting anomalies and/or adverse current and/or future conditions in the conditioned data and to generate feedback indicative of the anomalies;

recommending maintenance actions in response to the conditioned data; and

supply, demand, and inventory postures, and recommending logistics, supply, repair, purchasing and/or production actions in response to the conditioned data.