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Aerospace Physical Test Facility Health Monitoring

The facility equipment in large physical test facilities including wind tunnels or engine test cells is a critical part of the test. Equipment failure by any of the facility assets can result in costly delays, missed deadlines, and expensive downtime. Unexpected failures can also risk personnel safety and equipment damage. In these facilities, test engineers need to answer one important question: Are we ready to test? The answer depends on the team’s ability to perform the following tasks:

 

 

  • Monitor test equipment status including calibration, storage space, software versions, and network bandwidth
  • Plan maintenance activities based on equipment performance, including using machine learning to calculate remaining useful life
  • Track operational efficiency and facility usage information
  • Correlate test data with facility data to understand the impact of test procedures

 

 

Physical Test Facility Health Monitoring

  • CompactDAQ devices collect data across the facility from critical facility assets: compressors, motors, pumps, pipes, and more.
  • FlexLogger™ software collects data from data devices and provides initial data reduction and processing.
  • SystemLink™ software aggregates data from across the facility and test equipment, applies advanced analytics to the data, and serves the results to dashboards for decision making.  
  • NI Data Engineers work with your test team to identify assets to monitor, collect and log data, and process the data for trend analysis and predictive maintenance.

Solution Advantages

  • Reduce the risk of downtime because of unexpected failures by monitoring equipment operation to catch failures before they happen.

  • Correlate equipment behavior to test procedures to identify causes of facility damage, extending the lifetime of your assets.

  • Apply machine learning to calculate remaining useful life and other predictive maintenance analytics.

  • Track operational efficiency to ensure optimal use of expensive facility resources.

  • Schedule maintenance between test procedures with insights into the operational behavior of equipment.

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