Increased inspection productivity through advances in Remote Visual Inspection (RVI)

摘要

Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) allows the inspection of objects or components in complex systems such as engines without disassembling the engine modules, surrounding structure or removing the engine from an aircraft. This paper will present a concept for integrated data collection, management and sharing as a way to increase engine inspection efficiency and contribute necessary input to a condition-based maintenance approach. Increased inspection productivity can be attained by an integrated software solution that provides a customizable guide for different engines. Solutions allow centralized planning of different engine inspections, including details of annotation and other inspection requirements along with automatic report generation. This information can be archived via a standard software protocol for long term data utility and multi-system communication.