Impact of improved maintenance in the CleanSky II projects AIRMES and DEMETER

Abstract

In the Clean Sky II Platform 3 Large Passenger Aircraft work package 3.6 Maintenance new technologies were developed for an integrated End-to-End(E2E) Maintenance Service Architecture. The technologies, which have been developed, are based on Integrated Vehicle Health Management Technologies supported by maintenance execution enhancement solutions. Inside of the WP 3.6 three different projects were placed under the head of a leading partner consortium ADVANCE. The three projects, which were included, are DEMETER, PACEMAN and AIRMES. To evaluate the overall impact of the developed technologies an E2E evaluation tool for all technologies across the different projects was developed. The technologies in the different projects reach from structural health management, system health management, data analytics over virtual and augmented reality to mobile applications. The following technologies were part of the evaluation: - Maintenance Planning Optimization Tool - Mobile Tools * Contextualized Documentation Tool * Defects Reporting Tool * Configuration Management Capturing Tool * Maintenance Elapse Time Control Tool * Knowledge Database * Dispatch Assessment Tool * Workspace * Software Infrastructure for Communication * Integrated Health Monitoring and Management - Prognostics - Structural Usage Monitoring Function - Direct Structural Health Monitoring Overall more than 20 improvements were identified, which were included in different scenarios, use cases and contexts. To identify the global impact of the combination of these technologies on airline/European level an evaluation tool was developed under the constraints of several partners in different projects and the influence of the scenarios and use cases. Therefore, the airline market was divided into three different clusters. This paper contains the results of the E2E evaluation of the AIRMES and DEMETER projects. A consolidated evaluation was carried out and the results were transferred to a European level. A potential saving of 712M € - 925M € was identified by projecting onto the European level. Additionally, the qualitative results were listed and include improvements in the fields of environmental, social, air transportation system, safety and IT.