Fleet Analytic Services for Proactive Maintenance Insights

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional product support is largely reactive and relies on anecdotal input, with analytical efforts being simplistic and based on low-quality, delayed datasets, failing to identify opportunities for product and process improvements proactively.

Innovation Solution

A fleet analytic services system that processes and analyzes data for maintenance, operations, costs, readiness, health, and supply/logistics, including modules for data quality assurance, conditioning, monitoring, and optimization, to provide proactive insights and recommendations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If conventional reactive product support is used with anecdotal input and simplistic analysis, then immediate response to urgent matters is possible, but opportunities for product and process improvements are not identified proactively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime to identify improvement opportunitiesVSAvoidquality of analytical insights
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary data collection and continuous analysis before problems manifest. By continuously gathering and analyzing fleet data in advance, the system identifies trends and potential issues proactively, enabling preventive rather than reactive support actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes continuous feedback loops where fleet data is constantly collected, analyzed, and used to generate insights that feed back into maintenance and operational decisions. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables ongoing improvement identification and implementation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If small, low-quality datasets are used for analysis, then data processing is simpler and faster, but the quality and reliability of analytical results deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing speedVSAvoidquality of analytical results
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates standardized data templates and models that can be replicated across the fleet. By establishing standard data collection protocols and analytical models, the system maintains processing efficiency while improving data quality through consistent, high-quality data structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms raw fleet data into standardized, high-quality analytical parameters through processing and normalization. By changing the state of data from raw/unordered to processed/standardized, the system maintains processing speed while significantly improving analytical result quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If comprehensive fleet data collection and advanced analysis modules are implemented, then proactive insights and improvement opportunities are identified, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of fleet analyticsVSAvoidcomplexity of analytic services system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the comprehensive fleet analytics functionality into distinct, modular services including data collection modules, data processing modules, analysis modules, and reporting modules. Each module performs a specific function, making the overall complex system manageable, maintainable, and scalable while delivering high-quality fleet analytics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10521979B2Fleet analytic services toolset
Publication Date: 2019.12.31 SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP
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AI summary

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.