ISSUE:
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of aircraft engines was experiencing reliability issues. The issues that needed to be addressed included:
- False positives of sensor required in-flight shutdown
- Maintenance intervals needed to be reduced
- System reliability need to be increased
MEASUREMENT ANALYSIS SOLUTION:
A detailed system and process analysis was performed on the aircraft engine. The root cause of the issues was identified and a solution was implemented. Benefits included:
- Reduced false positives of sensor
- Maintenance intervals were reduced
- Increased system operational reliability
- Provided real-time status of system’s condition
- Implemented maintenance on-condition
- Increased system availability
- Extended range Twin Operations (ETOPS) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Rating