Improve global
inspection efficiency,
save time for disposition

InspectionWorks Insight combined with Everest
Mentor Visual IQ or Everest Mentor Flex VideoProbeand Menu Directed Inspection (MDI) enables intuitive
global inspection data aggregation for airline and OEM
inspectors throughout an engine’s lifespanWaygate Technologies helped a globally
operating aircraft engine supplier to set up
a cloud-based inspection management
application which provides in-service
borescope inspection data at scale. Bothcompanies have been working together
trustfully to simplify Maintenance, Repair
and Operations (MRO) for a long time.
The customer required a new solution toprovide, manage and leverage in-service
borescope inspection data at scale and to
seamlessly aggregate the collected data
globally over the life of an engine. This
improves overall efficiency of inspection,and unlocks in-service inspection data
analytics for engine health monitoring (EHM).

Benefits• Saving 4 hours per inspection byminimizing inspector effort spent
on non-inspection tasks• Efficient Data Exchange: The ability
to seamlessly share data internallybusiness unit and externally withasset owners or airline operators.
• Maximizing efficiency andtraceability of inspections• Reducing cycle time throughautomatically transferred datafrom device to repository• Ensuring data and reporting
consistency across all shops
globally• Deviation prediction at fleet level
through data feed into quality
systems• Design improvements throughdata feed into engineering• Tracking of asset health over timeby using inspection data
• Reducing time to disposition

Challenge
As an aircraft engine manufacturer with global service
and MRO shops in multiple and distributed locations,the customer faced the challenge of implementing aninspection management system to improve efficiency
at inspector and operator level. Another key objective of
the project was to provide the customer with a systemthat generates in-service borescope inspection data, atscale, to unlock the potential of data analytics.

At the inspector level

In the past, the customer faced numerous challenges atvarious organizational levels:

At operational level“Waygate Technologies
InspectionWorks Insight combined with
Mentor Visual iQ and Menu Directed
Inspection provides a platform where
we can easily aggregate inspection
data across the world for the life of anengine and leverage the potential ofinspection data analytics. This leads
to hours saved in inspection time anddays in getting precious engine databack to our engineering team.”
Customer Voice• Inefficient use of Inspector time (time spent on noninspection tasks)• Alignment of dispatch with receipt inspections• Inspections dependency on human reliability• Manual report generation• Manual transfer of data from borescope to storage• Inconsistent inspections and data across inspectors
and locations• Unstructured data
• Lack of metadata• Inconsistent reporting formats• Disconnected systems requiring manual updates
Resulting in significant loss of time and efficiency at
every level
Overall, the customer was capturing a lot of time-series
data via on-board sensors and very little in-service
inspection data. Providing consistent in-service
borescope inspection data at scale unlocks thepotential of data analytics, in particular towards engine
health monitoring to gain competitive advantage
To address these challenges, Waygate Technologies
worked with the customer to develop thiscomprehensive solution for managing and utilizing
inspection data.

Solution
Waygate Technologies and the customer engaged inintensive cooperation and evaluation to identify thebest possible solution for the customer’s requirements.
InspectionWorks Insight combined with Everest Mentor
Visual iQ Videoprobe and Menu Directed Inspection
proved to be the best scalable solutions to improve
inspection efficiency while managing and leveraging
inspection data. In addition, InspectionWorks Storeguarantees centralized distribution of inspection
software, documents, media and applications.
InspectionWorks Insight is a secure cloud storage andinspection data management environment that ingests
data directly from all IW-enabled devices or PCs. Data isstructured according to the operator’s inspection plan,
along with metadata collected during the inspection,
so it can be accurately analyzed, reported, and sharedwith relevant teams or indeed with customers if
applicable.
After the initial pilot program to drive customer
engagement across all departments, the solution
consists of three components, data acquisition withvisual inspection instruments, data storage, report
generation, and finally centralized content distribution.

On the customer’s cloud, the inspection data is acquired
using Waygate Technologies’ borescope Everest Mentor
Visual iQ VideoProbe and Menu Directed Inspection.
InspectionWorks (IW) Insight allows seamless andwireless integration with the borescope hardware
through Push2IW which ingests the data directly. The
data is structured per the customer’s inspection plan,with metadata from the inspection, making it easily
analyzed, reported, and shared with the engineering
department and internal customer software.

InspectionWorks Insight classifies results from multiple
inspection sources to create a comprehensive asset
health overview with a complete inspection history
in the cloud. The customer can now not only retrieve
the data of all inspections and detailed information
about them, no matter how long ago they took place,but also exchange or add comments and share thecollected information. This provides optimal conditions
for seamless collaboration and ensures that even thesmallest assessment is not lost amongst the dailyvolume of data.

View various inspections and images, add comments, tag, and share with other users for easier decision-making

The dashboard displays all of the most important information
at one glance

Metadata, such as the product ID and the inspector, are saved
for an optional overview“We at Waygate Technologies recognize thepower of collaborating with large industrial
partners on the digitization of their inspection
process; we successfully helped our customer
to increase productivity and even turned what
was a pure cost into value generation for theirengineering department. We look forward tomore successful collaborations with othercompanies who want to simplify how they run
inspections.“Alexis Herve,
Director Global Operations - InspectionWorks
Waygate Technologies

With InspectionWorks Store as the third element of thesolution, Waygate Technologies enables the customer
to gain significant time savings with the help of remoteand centralized distribution of customized inspectionalgorithms and workflows. Software updates, applications,documents, media and other content are now available
with just a few clicks and can be accessed directly fromany IW-enabled device or PC.

IW Store: everything from latest
inspection software updates,
documents, applications totraining videos.

Results
Easy and efficient aggregation of in-service borescope
inspection data and analytics engine health is crucial
for today’s aircraft engine manufacturers and service
providers to be competitive and ensure safety andquality. By deploying InspectionWorks Insight, Waygate
Technologies helped to achieve significant efficiency andproductivity benefits:• Minimize inspector time on non-inspection times• Maximize inspection efficiency• Efficient Data Exchange: The ability to seamlessly sharedata internally within business unit and externally withasset owners or airline operators.
• Reduced cycle time through automized data flows frominitial inspection to final report generation, from device
to storage in cloud and data disposition• Data consistency and automated reporting across all
shops worldwide• Defect prediction at fleet level through data feed intoquality• Design improvement through data feed into engineering• Health tracking of assets over time using inspection data
The development of a large dataset of borescope
inspections allows the customer’s data and analytics teamto uncover more insights around specific engine healthand performance and also fleet performance for individual
operators. The customer’s new central repository forborescope inspections from InspectionWorks now collects
data from 12 MRO shops. This customer plans to expand
InspectionWorks Insight to further, and integrate with otherprocesses for optimal operations.
In summary, the solution developed for the customer,InspectionWorks Insight, results in significant productivity
gains, measured at 15 percent by reducing inspection timeand time to disposition.

InspectionWorks: A Non-Destructive Testing
Software Platform for the Future
InspectionWorks is a software platform that combines data from multiple
non-destructive testing (NDT) tools, and connects the entire inspection historyof all assets. It helps to acquire, analyze and act on inspection data. It enables
adding inspection insights to a digital twin throughout its lifecycle. Thistransforms inspection data into a tool for faster and better decisions, saving
costs and enabling a more competitive product.

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