Active system control as an approach can be useful when applied to improve the safety, maintenance and efficiency of aircraft, or other means of transportation. The concepts of conditional maintenance and preventive maintenance have been well established for many years as a concept of analysis and method for improving system behavior. This analysis is normally performed (at best) after each mission, journey or flight and used as supportive tools for insurance of transport, economic maintenance frequency and quality. The new approach of active system control is about knowing conditions and monitoring of them before mission, during the mission and after the mission. Active system control in terms of its modelling and benefits is compared with known preventive and conditional maintenance, using exactly the same assumptions. It is shown that implementing active system control has substantial advantages over classic preventive and conditional methods of maintenance; it introduces analysis of current conditions and provides advice on the deterioration of functioning in real-time during operation, rather than afterwards when it might be too late or irrelevant. This approach involving real-time prediction of conditions in the context of the current state of the aircraft during as well as after each mission introduces the first step towards the paradigm shift toward real-time monitoring and improvement of reliability.
Active System Control Impact on Mission Reliability
Active System Control ; Chapter : 7 ; 133-151
2025-01-22
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Conditional maintenance , Preventive maintenance , Active system control , Availability , Reliability , Real-time reliability mission control Engineering , Control and Systems Theory , Communications Engineering, Networks , Security Science and Technology , Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
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