The paper discusses how Industry 4.0 could impact practitioners performing maintenance in aviation. The attention has been on Augmented Reality and Additive Manufacturing, which can support maintenance tasks and spare parts production respectively. Advantages and open issues are widely discussed and couple of case studies dealing with realistic scenarios are presented to support what has been proposed by the authors. The intention is to demonstrate that AR and AM are viable tools in aviation maintenance, even if effort is necessary to develop an appropriate regulatory framework, required before the introduction of these technologies in the maintenance process. Once applied to real maintenance tasks by airline companies, the practitioning community can develop best practices and the necessary regulation pertaining to maintenance and repair of aerospace systems using AR and AM technologies.
Maintenance in aeronautics in an industry 4.0 context: The role of ar and am / Ceruti, Alessandro*; Marzocca, Pier; Liverani, Alfredo; Bil, Cees. - ELETTRONICO. - 7:(2018), pp. 43-52. (Intervento presentato al convegno 25th ISPE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering 2018 tenutosi a UNIMORE University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, ita nel 2018) [10.3233/978-1-61499-898-3-43].
Maintenance in aeronautics in an industry 4.0 context: The role of ar and am
Ceruti, Alessandro
Methodology
;Liverani, AlfredoWriting – Review & Editing
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2018
Abstract
The paper discusses how Industry 4.0 could impact practitioners performing maintenance in aviation. The attention has been on Augmented Reality and Additive Manufacturing, which can support maintenance tasks and spare parts production respectively. Advantages and open issues are widely discussed and couple of case studies dealing with realistic scenarios are presented to support what has been proposed by the authors. The intention is to demonstrate that AR and AM are viable tools in aviation maintenance, even if effort is necessary to develop an appropriate regulatory framework, required before the introduction of these technologies in the maintenance process. Once applied to real maintenance tasks by airline companies, the practitioning community can develop best practices and the necessary regulation pertaining to maintenance and repair of aerospace systems using AR and AM technologies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
