Embraer launches new system for Executive Jets
24/10/2023
Embraer Services & Support has launched a next-generation version of its aircraft health analysis and diagnosis (AHEAD) system, which can help airlines and other customers monitor their aircraft for potential maintenance issues before they break or present critical problems.
Following an announcement at the Paris Air Show, it was revealed that aircraft health analysis and diagnosis provides digital predictive maintenance for Embraer’s Executive Jet (also called E-Jet) fleets. More than 1250 commercial and executive Embraer aircraft are using aircraft health analysis and diagnosis worldwide.
Predictive maintenance, backed by increasingly advanced health and usage monitoring systems integrated into flight-critical aircraft systems, is overtaking reactive maintenance as the industry norm.
Using data analysis to detect operational anomalies and possible defects allows operators to fix problems or replace parts before they cause time-consuming, costly and potentially catastrophic component failures.
Most modern aircraft broadcast detailed data from sensors arrayed throughout the airframe, which is then analysed through a health and usage monitoring system (HUMS). Systems such as aircraft health analysis and diagnosis make data-gathering and analysis much easier for aircraft maintenance shops.
AHEAD integrates and analyses trends from several systems such as engine parameters, pneumatics, hydraulics, landing gear, navigation and instruments, claims Embraer. The monitoring can detect anomalies and identify patterns that indicate potential issues and system degradation and prescribe a timeline for addressing those issues.
The system’s new version was developed using the expertise of Embraer Services & Support engineering, which has 20 years of experience carrying out aircraft data analysis for predictive maintenance of Embraer’s Executive Jet fleets.
Embraer used that experience to implement 12 new reliability trends for aircraft systems for early degradation detection on E2, predictive capabilities powered by machine learning, and troubleshooting enhancement for ‘flight controls no dispatch’.
“Aircraft health analysis and diagnosis uses predictive analytics solutions to forecast when maintenance tasks will be needed by our customers, allowing them to plan maintenance schedules in advance. By planning in advance, they can avoid unnecessary maintenance and reduce the time that aircraft spend on the ground. This helps our customers optimise their resources and improve operational efficiency,” said Johann Bordais, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Embraer Services & Support.
Embraer Services & Support plans to release a new update soon that will contain more reliability trends and tailored maintenance recommendations in real-time, the company said.
For nearly 50 years, Embraer Services & Support has been applying its design and engineering talent to develop solutions for the complex issues customers face every day. Support from its commercial, executive, defence and security and agricultural business units has merged. Now, as a single entity, the company has pooled the vast expertise of 2500 Embraer professionals.
