AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ANALYSIS TOOL
First Claim
1. A method for identifying events that impact aircraft availability, the method comprising:
- collecting operational data, maintenance data, supply data, and provisioning data for a plurality of aircraft from a plurality of sources to form collected data;
processing the collected data to form processed data containing a plurality of events, wherein the processed data is in a form needed to perform an analysis on the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft;
calculating a set of metrics relating to the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft from the processed data to form a set of calculated metrics; and
identifying a set of trends relating to the set of calculated metrics affecting availability of the plurality of aircraft.
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Abstract
A method is provided for identifying events that impact aircraft availability. Operational data, maintenance data, supply data, and provisioning data are collected for a plurality of aircraft from a plurality of sources to form collected data. The collected data is processed to form processed data containing a plurality of events, wherein the processed data is in a form needed to perform an analysis on the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft. A set of metrics relating to the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft is calculated from the processed data to form a set of calculated metrics. A set of trends relating to the set of calculated metrics affecting availability of the plurality of aircraft is identified.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for identifying events that impact aircraft availability, the method comprising:
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collecting operational data, maintenance data, supply data, and provisioning data for a plurality of aircraft from a plurality of sources to form collected data; processing the collected data to form processed data containing a plurality of events, wherein the processed data is in a form needed to perform an analysis on the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft; calculating a set of metrics relating to the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft from the processed data to form a set of calculated metrics; and identifying a set of trends relating to the set of calculated metrics affecting availability of the plurality of aircraft. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11)
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9. The method of clam 7, wherein the trigger method is a statistical method selected from one of data averaging, weighted averaging, linear regression, normalized linear regression, modified T-test, and curve fitting.
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12. An apparatus comprising:
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a data collection unit, wherein the data collection unit is capable of collecting operational data, maintenance data, supply data, and provisioning data for a plurality of aircraft from a plurality of sources to form collected data; a data processing unit capable of processing the collected data to form processed data containing a plurality of events, wherein the processed data is in a form needed to perform an analysis on aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft; a metric calculation unit capable of calculating a set of metrics relating to the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft from the processed data to form a set of calculated metrics; a data analysis unit capable of identifying a set of trends using the set of calculated metrics affecting availability of the plurality of aircraft; and a set of data processing systems, wherein the data collection unit, the data processing unit, the metric calculation unit, and the data analysis unit execute on the set of data processing systems. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A computer program product for identifying reliability events that impact aircraft availability, the computer program product comprising:
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a computer recordable storage medium; program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for collecting operational data, maintenance data, supply data, and provisioning data for a plurality of aircraft from a plurality of sources to form collected data; program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for processing the collected data to form processed data containing a plurality of events, wherein the processed data is in a form needed to perform an analysis on the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft; program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for calculating a set of metrics relating to the aircraft availability for the plurality of aircraft from the processed data to form a set of calculated metrics; and program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for identifying a set of trends relating to the set of calculated metrics affecting availability of the plurality of aircraft. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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