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FREMONT, CA: Aerospace businesses heavily rely on maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) to ensure aircraft safety, dependability, and availability. A rise in air traffic and ageing aircraft have led to an increase in the demand for MRO services.
Data analytics and 3D tools have the potential to revolutionise A&D maintenance in today's rapidly changing digital environment by increasing productivity, lowering costs, boosting safety, and enhancing total equipment reliability. These instruments can aid in determining when maintenance is necessary, allowing maintenance teams to take proactive measures to handle problems before they result in equipment failure. This decreases downtime, boosts the dependability of the machinery, and ultimately saves money. Additionally, 3D visualisation tools can significantly lower the cost of repairs by assisting maintenance teams in visualising and troubleshooting complicated systems in three dimensions. To identify potential safety hazards, departments like engineering and design can collaborate and teach maintenance employees using the tools.
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Applications with a 3D interface make it easier to describe and simulate a system or subsystem using multiple physics. This aids in determining the maintainability in a 3D context and determining the component's residual life through simulations. Assessing induced structural/thermal stress, fatigue, fracture initiation, etc. is done to achieve this.
It's more evident than ever that legacy aviation maintenance systems are getting older as large data sets continue to be produced quickly from numerous sources. To handle the effects of the data flood and maintain its competitiveness, the Aerospace and Defense sector as a whole must now optimise digital MRO. To connect diverse data and decision-makers, the entire maintenance environment must be connected. To increase fleet availability, lower MRO costs, and maximize fleet safety and sustainability, a completely integrated digital platform with a data-driven model is essential.
Companies in the aerospace and defence industries must now make the transition to a completely integrated digital platform that improves digital MRO collaboration, agility, and efficiency. To unify the ecosystem and collaborate as one, this calls for the use of a single data model and an integrated platform, as well as predictive analytics to cut down on unplanned maintenance, product lifecycle management to increase fleet availability and safety, and virtual twin technology to speed up turnaround times.
Utilising the virtual 3D twin of the selected aircraft system on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, one can overlay the relevant flying operational data, engineering, and maintenance details. This makes it easier for the MRO team to analyse a system or component rapidly and to take immediate corrective action using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This closed-loop method makes it possible to be quicker and more efficient.
Companies need to embrace digital transformation in all facets of their MRO operations and implement a digital-first mentality. This includes utilising cutting-edge technologies to enhance maintenance procedures, boost sustainability, and boost productivity, such as Virtual Twin, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and the Internet of Things. Sustainability has gained significance in the aircraft and defence sectors. Businesses must implement sustainable practices across all MRO processes, including waste reduction, energy efficiency, and the use of eco-friendly materials. Through industry solution experiences (ISE) built on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, industry participants and suppliers can now bridge the gap between the virtual and physical worlds to 50 per cent more quickly transition from idea to operations.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is now assisting in the advancement of MRO, support and service engineering, and spare part engineering companies. To give that information in the manner that users prefer, it gathers, aligns, and enriches digital data continuity, whether internal or external, structured or unstructured, simple or complicated. Additionally, it enables OEMs to combine various organisations, processes, and tools into a singular stream to improve the form, fit, and functionality of an integrated System Digital Mock-up. (DMU). Many integration concerns that have a significant adverse effect on costs and schedules can be avoided with this system DMU.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is now assisting in the advancement of MRO, support and service engineering, and spare part engineering companies. To give that information in the manner that users prefer, it gathers, aligns, and enriches digital data continuity, whether internal or external, structured or unstructured, simple or complicated. It also enables OEMs to combine various organisations, processes, and tools into a singular stream to improve the form, fit, and functionality of an integrated System Digital Mock-up. (DMU). Many integration problems that have a significant negative effect on costs and schedules can be avoided with this system DMU.
Through virtual reality/mixed reality-based training solutions that let field operators interact with console operators for realistic and immersive training experiences, operator training simulators mimic the features and activities of an industrial control room environment. According to studies, learning with AR and VR is four times faster than learning in a conventional classroom, as well as 300 per cent more motivating for students. This innovative training strategy shortens technical training sessions and minimises delays in operations. By providing simulation training in hazardous settings, AR can also improve the visualisation of complex equipment and systems, making it simpler for technicians to comprehend and identify problems.
