In February 2000, an unusual brake problem grounded a British Airways Concorde flight from London to New York at a total cost to BA operations of over $800,000. The fault turned out to be a simple sensor failure. It took a whole day to troubleshoot, but the fix was simple and fast once they found the cause. Later, when a case history was forwarded to BA's commercial partner, Air France, BA was astonished by their reply: "We know - the same thing happened to us last year - we sent you a report on it".
The costly delay would have been avoided if the British Airways technician in London had been shown the story about Air France's experience when the problem symptoms first appeared. That's what the ADDS Service does.
CaseBank's unique guided diagnostic subscription service for airlines can improve the efficiency and safety of your aircraft operations by bringing experience from across the industry to your troubleshooters. This service uses CaseBank Technologies' proven software, "SpotLight®," which delivers expert diagnostic guidance for solving equipment and process problems, and a knowledgebase of the results and lessons learned from successful troubleshooting experiences. SpotLight delivers these experiences to your people in time to help, wherever and whenever similar problems appear. No risky development. No management burden. Just speedy, guided access to highly relevant knowledge.
With the aircraft guided diagnostic service, CaseBank provides an ever-ready global "collective memory" loaded with the compiled experiences of the industry's experts. Your guide never goes off shift, never takes a vacation, never changes jobs, and never retires. The wealth of knowledge from an entire industry's experienced troubleshooters will always be available, no matter what.
Past diagnostic experiences are captured and compiled in a knowledgebase called a "knowledgebase". Each individual solution documents the entire set of symptoms that distinguishes it from similar solutions. Each solution also documents the root cause of the fault and the known, successful corrective actions.
An aircraft guided diagnostic knowledgebase is extraordinarily concise, since one solution is used to represent all instances of a particular type of fault. Users are not deluged with records of each occurrence. Rather, each solution comprises a unique set of characteristics that clearly distinguish each problem from all others. Only relevant information is included.
CaseBank provides subscribers with access to a secure, central knowledgebase created and maintained by CaseBank. With the help of industry experts, CaseBank reviews subscribers' maintenance experiences and, once the root cause of a problem has been verified and all related information validated, and prepares a new solution for inclusion.
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