New advances in aircraft MRO services: data mining enhancement

Yu, J., Gulliver, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4503-5448, Tang, Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1134-4170 and Ke, L. (2011) New advances in aircraft MRO services: data mining enhancement. In: Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI2011), 19-21 October 2011, Wuhan, China.

Abstract/Summary

Aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) agencies rely largely on row-data based quotation systems to select the best suppliers for the customers (airlines). The data quantity and quality becomes a key issue to determining the success of an MRO job, since we need to ensure we achieve cost and quality benchmarks. This paper introduces a data mining approach to create an MRO quotation system that enhances the data quantity and data quality, and enables significantly more precise MRO job quotations. Regular Expression was utilized to analyse descriptive textual feedback (i.e. engineer’s reports) in order to extract more referable highly normalised data for job quotation. A text mining based key influencer analysis function enables the user to proactively select sub-parts, defects and possible solutions to make queries more accurate. Implementation results show that system data would improve cost quotation in 40% of MRO jobs, would reduce service cost without causing a drop in service quality.

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Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
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