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In the aviation industry, it may be necessary to employ a combination of Failure Finding Inspection (FFI) and a scheduled discard task at a specific threshold, when a component is aging and its failures are hidden and exert a “safety effect”. This is to ensure an adequate level of availability of hidden functions, and to reduce the risk of multiple failures to an acceptable level. However, in some...
This paper develops a cost rate function (CRF) to identify the optimum interval and frequency of inspection and restoration of aircraft's repairable components which are undergoing aging, and whose failures are hidden, i.e. are detectable by inspection or upon demand. The paper considers two prevalent strategies, namely Failure Finding Inspection (FFI), and a combination of FFI with restoration actions...
This paper aims to develop a graphical method to facilitate the identification of risk and cost of postponement of restoration for repairable components which are periodically tested and whose failures are hidden, i.e, are detectable by inspection or upon demand. The paper focuses on the items which are under aging, however, the methodology is flexible to implement for any aging pattern. The paper...
With global cuts in defense budgets, air forces have to sustain the same level of readiness with a reduced number of aircraft. To succeed with this challenge, it is not sufficient to improve current maintenance concepts, but also new ones have to be introduced. Traditionally, the development of on-board functions and maintenance concepts has been performed rather independently. The new approach is...
This paper presents a designed system for measuring three dimensions (height, width and length) of steel billets during molding process. The system has been equipped with a Giga-Ethernet camera and an industrial computer (IPC). The billet is moved in front of the inspection system with an external moving mechanism. Image processing techniques and calibration are used to measure dimensions from the...
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