Automating Contextualized Maintenance Documentation

Hemmo Koornneef; Wim Verhagen; Richard Curran

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-703-0-861

Automating Contextualized Maintenance Documentation

Hemmo Koornneef, Wim Verhagen, Richard Curran

Air Transport & Operations

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Abstract

Currently, task support information in aircraft maintenance is mostly provided using paper-based solutions, which are burdensome, slow and prone to error. Aircraft maintenance documentation contains vast amounts of information irrelevant for the task at hand and even for the simplest tasks multiple documents need to be consulted. Next to these issues with the documentation itself, Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) have very limited on-site access to support information. These factors lead to 15–20% of hands-on-aircraft time being wasted on acquiring the right information or not using maintenance documentation for task support at all, risking maintenance error. This paper describes the development of a system for a first level of contextualization of maintenance documentation to simplify the retrieval of task support information. Combining a tailor-made ontology with a relational database system for Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA), maintenance documents relevant to a specific aircraft registration mark can be identified. The system contributes to the research field of knowledge management by using OBDA for selecting relevant maintenance documents stored in a regular file folder. Future work will focus on increasing the level of contextualization, development of a mobile tool for on-site access and prototype verification and validation in an operational environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transdisciplinary Engineering: Crossing Boundaries
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering
Editors	M. Borsato, N. Wognum, M. Peruzzini, J. Stjepandić, W.J.C. Verhagen
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	861 – 870
Volume	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-61499-703-0
ISBN (Print)	978-1-61499-702-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-703-0-861
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering - Curitiba, Brazil Duration: 3 Oct 2016 → 7 Oct 2016 Conference number: 23

Publication series

Name	Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
Publisher	IOS Press
Volume	4
ISSN (Print)	2352-751X
ISSN (Electronic)	2352-7528

Conference

Conference	23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering
Abbreviated title	TE2016
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Curitiba
Period	3/10/16 → 7/10/16

Keywords

Aircraft maintenance
maintenance efficiency
contextualized documentation
ontology-based data access
human factors
mobile tools

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Koornneef, H., Verhagen, W., & Curran, R. (2016). Automating Contextualized Maintenance Documentation. In M. Borsato, N. Wognum, M. Peruzzini, J. Stjepandić, & W. J. C. Verhagen (Eds.), Transdisciplinary Engineering: Crossing Boundaries: Proceedings of the 23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering (Vol. 4, pp. 861 – 870). (Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering; Vol. 4). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-703-0-861

Koornneef, Hemmo ; Verhagen, Wim ; Curran, Richard. / Automating Contextualized Maintenance Documentation. Transdisciplinary Engineering: Crossing Boundaries: Proceedings of the 23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering. editor / M. Borsato ; N. Wognum ; M. Peruzzini ; J. Stjepandić ; W.J.C. Verhagen. Vol. 4 IOS Press, 2016. pp. 861 – 870 (Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering).

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Koornneef, H , Verhagen, W & Curran, R 2016, Automating Contextualized Maintenance Documentation. in M Borsato, N Wognum, M Peruzzini, J Stjepandić & WJC Verhagen (eds), Transdisciplinary Engineering: Crossing Boundaries: Proceedings of the 23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering. vol. 4, Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, vol. 4, IOS Press, pp. 861 – 870, 23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering, Curitiba, Brazil, 3/10/16. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-703-0-861

Automating Contextualized Maintenance Documentation. / Koornneef, Hemmo ; Verhagen, Wim; Curran, Richard.
Transdisciplinary Engineering: Crossing Boundaries: Proceedings of the 23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering. ed. / M. Borsato; N. Wognum; M. Peruzzini; J. Stjepandić; W.J.C. Verhagen. Vol. 4 IOS Press, 2016. p. 861 – 870 (Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering; Vol. 4).

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Koornneef H , Verhagen W, Curran R. Automating Contextualized Maintenance Documentation. In Borsato M, Wognum N, Peruzzini M, Stjepandić J, Verhagen WJC, editors, Transdisciplinary Engineering: Crossing Boundaries: Proceedings of the 23rd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering. Vol. 4. IOS Press. 2016. p. 861 – 870. (Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering). doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-703-0-861

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