Pattern Recognition for Aircraft Maintainer Troubleshooting

Due to the significant decrease of aircraft parts across the U.S. military over past years, managing parts more efficiently has become a great necessity. The term managing suggests having the data resources available to predict, forecast events or determine an item’s use such as the mission capability of a part or weapon system. The decrease of parts can be attributed to many factors, some of which are due to the downsize of military effort, use of aging aircraft where parts are no longer available, large financial cost associated with part manufacturing, and time required to manufacture new parts in a dynamic environment. In order to effectively manage, maintain and reuse aircraft parts one must be aware of part related information and metrics.