Military Aviation

Your aircraft are deployed more often,
for longer periods
further from home,
in hotter operational theatres.
And you have fewer people
With less time-on-type
To keep them flying �

Lives truly depend on your aircraft being serviceable

Your Challenge

Meeting operational readiness requirements on time and anywhere in the world, because if your aircraft are not ready and fully functional, lives can be lost in the air and on the ground.

Your Environment

Operational tempo has increased significantly for military aviators and the operational environments have never been more critical
Deployments are typically in operational theatres that are not those for which the aircraft were developed
Military aircraft are flying longer than originally planned, and operated in new missions that produce new faults
Budgetary and personnel cutbacks have reduced the number of technicians supporting military flight line operations
Many support personnel are nearing retirement eligibility, or the wave has passed, and technicians are younger with less time on type than a decade ago
Newer aircraft are more complex and more reliable so that technicians see fewer faults and don�t build the experience base of their predecessors, yet those faults are increasingly difficult to isolate and rectify
Older aircraft have varied diagnostic equipment which are often less effective for fault isolation

The Solution

The solution is a diagnostic decision support system that guides maintenance staff in troubleshooting based on real experiences from across all operators � and once the root cause is determined, points to the appropriate repair procedure.

The Aircraft Diagnostic Decision Support (ADDS) Service is a turn-key service for defense aviators. Defense aviators use this service to provide their maintenance staff with a unique and powerful troubleshooting tool, especially capable of accelerating the diagnosis of elusive faults.

The service has two main parts:

The decision support engine is CaseBank�s proprietary case-based reasoning engine, SpotLight, which has been designed specifically for the aerospace industry.
The knowledgebase is a structured repository of diagnostic and repair information for military aircraft, developed by CaseBank�s specialized aircraft knowledgebase development staff.

The ADDS service is a simple to use, easily fielded tool that:

Captures and efficiently stores the knowledge and expertise of all the technicians who have worked on an aircraft type
Acts as an expert mentor who works alongside the technician posing questions that quickly isolate the root cause of an aircraft fault � an assistant with a perfect memory
Enables first time fixes whether in a hot or home base environment
Continuously captures new knowledge without additional burden on the technician
Deploys as a stand-alone compact system that can also be used in a secure inter/intranet or wireless environment

The Benefits

Increased aircraft availability through faster fixes
Increased aircraft reliability through more frequent first time fixes
Decreased logistics footprint through reduced spares pipeline
Decreased cost of maintenance

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