Aircraft Fleet Maintenance System

• US 20160342930A1
• Filed: 05/19/2015
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Incorporated (Textron Inc)
• Original Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Incorporated (Textron Inc)
• Inventors: Mesing, Brian, Tucker, Brian
• Granted Patent: US 10,474,973 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063118 Staff planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance

Abstract

According to one example embodiment, an aircraft fleet maintenance system includes a maintenance analysis engine and an operator feedback system. The maintenance analysis engine is configured to receive, from each of a plurality of aircraft maintainers, feedback information associated with how each of the aircraft maintainers performed an aircraft maintenance action and to compile the received feedback information from two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers to yield compiled maintenance trend data. The operator feedback system is configured to transmit the compiled maintenance trend data to at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers.

Claims

1. A method of providing aircraft fleet maintenance feedback, comprising:

receiving, from each of a plurality of aircraft maintainers, feedback information associated with how each of the aircraft maintainers performed an aircraft maintenance action;

compiling the received feedback information from two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers to yield compiled maintenance trend data; and

transmitting the compiled maintenance trend data to at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

compiling the received feedback information from two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers to yield compiled maintenance trend data comprises;

storing the received feedback information in a first plurality of memory locations; and

calculating, with a processor, the compiled maintenance trend data from the stored feedback information; and

transmitting the compiled maintenance trend data to at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers comprises;

storing the new instructions in a second plurality of memory locations; and

providing access to at least one of the second plurality of memory locations to the at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, to the at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers, a comparison of the compiled maintenance trend data to the feedback information associated with how the at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers performed the aircraft maintenance action.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback information received from each of the plurality of aircraft maintainers comprises feedback information associated with how one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers performed the aircraft maintenance action on multiple occasions.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback information received from each of the plurality of aircraft maintainers comprises feedback information associated with how individual personnel associated with each of the plurality of aircraft maintainers performed the aircraft maintenance action.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises information representative of how efficiently the aircraft maintainer performed the aircraft maintenance action.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the compiled maintenance trend data comprises information representative of how efficiently the two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers each performed the aircraft maintenance action.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises information representative of how long each aircraft maintenance action took to complete.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises information representative of how many man-hours each aircraft maintenance action took to complete.

16. The system of claim 6, wherein the compiled maintenance trend data comprises information representative of how efficiently the two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers each performed the aircraft maintenance action.

10. An aircraft fleet maintenance feedback system, comprising:

a maintenance analysis engine configured to;

receive, from each of a plurality of aircraft maintainers, feedback information associated with how each of the aircraft maintainers performed an aircraft maintenance action; and

compile the received feedback information from two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers to yield compiled maintenance trend data; and

an operator feedback system configured to transmit the compiled maintenance trend data to at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein:

the maintenance analysis engine is configured to compile the received feedback information from two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers to yield compiled maintenance trend data by;

storing the received feedback information in a first plurality of memory locations; and

calculating, with a processor, the compiled maintenance trend data from the stored feedback information; and

the operator feedback system is configured to transmit the compiled maintenance trend data to at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers by;

storing the new instructions in a second plurality of memory locations; and

providing access to at least one of the second plurality of memory locations to the at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the feedback information received from each of the plurality of aircraft maintainers comprises feedback information associated with how one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers performed the aircraft maintenance action on multiple occasions.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the feedback information received from each of the plurality of aircraft maintainers comprises feedback information associated with how individual personnel associated with each of the plurality of aircraft maintainers performed the aircraft maintenance action.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the feedback information comprises information representative of how efficiently the aircraft maintainer performed the aircraft maintenance action.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the feedback information comprises information representative of how long each aircraft maintenance action took to complete.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the feedback information comprises information representative of how many man-hours each aircraft maintenance action took to complete.

12. The system of system 10, the operator feedback system further configured to transmit, to the at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers, a comparison of the compiled maintenance trend data to the feedback information associated with how the at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers performed the aircraft maintenance action.