“GE’s analytics enable us to focus our maintenance efforts on key failing assets and meet our goal of mission readiness, despite budget constraints.”
– Major Carlos Corredor
Maintenance Officer, Colombian Air Force
Colombian Air Force uses GE to enable mission readiness
The Colombian Air Force is one of the largest operators of UH-60 gunship Blackhawk helicopters (35 units) in the world, with over 6,000 flight hours / year. They face a high operational demand in multi-environment and multi-mission scenarios.
The GE solution
APM Business Intelligence Dashboard integrated with SAP PM to identify bad actors (ATA / MIL-STD system)
Criticality analysis to measure safety and availability risk, and operational cost impact for failing assets
FMEA1 to optimize OEM maintenance strategies; reliability analytics to establish optimal frequency for planned maintenance and measured impact of recommendations
8%
readiness of
fleet
Outcome
- 5% corrective maintenance cost, 100% cost for horizontal stabilizer and main landing gear drag beam maintenance, overall 85% cost for tail rotor boot maintenance
- Customized UH-60 maintenance program to Colombian Air Force’s operational environment
- More than 10 soft times maintenance strategies implemented for non-sensorized components for diverse ATA chapters (72, 36, 21)
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