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Effectively Managing Chronic Faults/Unplanned Maintenance To Reduce Costs and Frequency
When a maintenance operation looks at its costs, the numbers are driven by many factors — among them planned and unplanned aircraft maintenance.
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How to Diagnose Equipment Quickly and Accurately For Effective Maintenance Diagnostics
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, PayPal and SpaceX was interviewed by Kevin Rose on the web-series Foundation, a show that interviews well-known entrepreneurs in the tech industry. When asked what advice he would give new entrepreneurs, Musk emphasized the...
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Top Considerations For System-Level Aviation Troubleshooting
Defining Subsystems and End Articles
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Predictions of ATP’s Founder Bill Daniels On The State Of Aviation Maintenance
In 1978, ATP’s founder, Bill Daniels, published a whitepaper that looked into the future of information services technology for the General Aviation Industry. As CEO of ATP, Mr. Daniels was avidly involved in the industry, and he made some visionary...
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How A Single-Source Application Can Enhance Technician Safety and Productivity
Whenever you send an email, you generally use a single application that you have come to know and understand through consistent use. But just imagine a world in which each time you sent an email to a different person, you would have to use that person’s...
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How to Filter IoT Data For Improved Efficiency
In a recent Information Week article, Internet of Things: The Rubber Meets the Road, Chris Taylor discusses what he sees as the three challenges associated with IoT today: automating decisions, limits of imagination, and fast data.
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How Excess IoT Data Can Impact Service Management
Michael Blumberg of the Blumberg Advisory Group recently wrote an interesting blog post: The Impact of IoT on Enterprise Service Management – Part II. In it he addresses the impact on field service engineers, call center staff and the supply chain....
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Simplifying IoT Data With A Diagnostic Analysis Tool
In a recent blog post on Information Week (“IoT is about Analysis, Not Things”) Chris Taylor wrote:
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How OEMs Can Simplify Farm Equipment Repair
For centuries, farmers have fixed their own machinery, and if they couldn’t fix it themselves they would call on a local mechanic to make the repair. But modern agricultural equipment has gotten much more complex and the traditional screwdriver and...
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How Closed-Loop SLM Simplifies Data With Field Experience
Our involvement in interactive round tables and speaking has provided us multiple opportunities to share insights we’ve gained from our 15 years of developing troubleshooting and fault isolation solutions. Diagnosing problems on complex equipment has...
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The Importance Of The No-Fault-Found Rate And How To Reduce It
In our conversations with leading manufacturers, ATP found that No-Fault-Found rates are a top concern for Original Equipment Manufacturer’s (OEM’s) as well as service operations. This is because, when a part has No-Fault-Found, it can spiral into wasted...