Commercial

T-HUMS for engines

RSL T-HUMS for engines is a leading edge engine health management solution for turbo-fan, turbo-shaft and turbo-jet engines used for commercial and military aircraft both fixed wing aircraft and rotary-wing aircraft.

The system significantly improves flight safety, mission effectiveness, and fleet readiness coupled with reduced fleet operating costs through reliable diagnostics and prognostics, Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and improved aircraft reliability.

It is featured with a smart array of sensors coupled with powerful processing capability with embedded artificial intelligence technology. T-HUMS conducts in-flight tracking, evaluation of exceedance and trends as well as and diagnostics and prognostics of power plant and other critical aircraft systems. T-HUMS provides a streamlined mission, pilot's advisories and enables the maintenance crew effective diagnostics and prognostics for accurate and cost-effective maintenance for high power by the hour (PBTH) ratio.

The T-HUMS open architecture offers our customer several configurations including propeller track and balancing, an optional crash survival memory module, pilot control panel, video and voice recording for post mission debriefing, providing all the benefits of flight data recorder (FDR). T-HUMS's STCs for several commercial engines will be obtained by Q1/O2.
 
Maintenance Benefits

• Condition based maintenance
• Profitable PBTH (Power By The Hour)
• Reduction of mission aborts
• Less AOG
• Simplified logistics for fleet deployment
• Benefits earned on all maintenance echelons
• Reduced maintenance effort and cost by:
  • "Maintain as you fly"-  Maintenance flights are obsolete
  • Repair when damage is still minor
  • Increased aircraft MTBF
  • Decreased aircraft MTTR
      

Operational Benefits

• Improved flight safety
• Improved mission reliability and effectiveness
• Fewer IFSD, ATO, D&C
• Fewer unscheduled engine removals
• Improved fleet availability and effectivenes
• Fewer non-revenue/maintenance flights
• Lower fleet operation costs
• Improved aircraft performance and reduction of fuel consumption
• Improved aircrew effectiveness
• Reduced aircrew workload
• Post mission assessment and debriefing
• FOQA (Flight Operation Quality Assurance) programs supported

 
Main Features

Airborne Segment

• Functions:
  • Power-plant diagnostics - in-flight
  • Vibration analysis - engines, gearbox, drive-chain (shafts, bearings), propeller in-flight
  • On the wing balancing of engine/fan/propeller - based on in-flight vibration data 
  • Flight regime recognition
  • Power assurance
• Options:
  • Pilot alerts and advisories
  • Hot start rejection
  • Airframe load and stress monitoring
  • Aircraft systems (electrical power, APU, fuel) health reporting
  • Wireless Communications
  • Video and voice recording
• GPS modul
• In-flight powerful processing, diagnostics and prognostics
• Smart multi-engine configuration to minimize aircraft modification
• Open architecture - adaptable to rotary and tilt rotor aircraft 
  • Upgradeable configuration
  • Configurable interfaces and sensing package - RPM, pressure, temperature, vibration, propeller balancing, chips detection
  • Configurable data extraction - LAN, PCMCIA card, IR
  • Wide interface spectrum:1553, RS-422/232, Arinc-429/629,LAN, IR, CAN
  • Optional crash survival memory module
• Fully RTCA/DO-160D, RTCA/DO-178B compliant
• Light weight and minimal power consu

Ground Segment

• Diagnostics and prognostics using Expert System,Neural Network and Fu

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