Patent ID: 9424693
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G07C

Claim Text:
1. A system for scheduling repair of a component of an aircraft before the component fails, comprising: at least one processor; and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processor, the non-transitory memory storing program control instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: (a) use a degradation value to estimate the probability that a component of an aircraft will fail; (b) estimate how long it will take to repair the aircraft component; (c) determine availability of resources for repairing the aircraft component including whether said repair resources will be needed to repair the same component of other aircraft; and (d) schedule repair of the aircraft component in advance of (a) when the aircraft component fails and (b) attaining a failure threshold based on the degradation index, to minimize conflicts of the scheduled repair of the aircraft component with repairs of other aircraft components to better use repair shop availability and avoid conflicts when the repair shop is already at or has exceeded capacity.