King S., Anuzis P., King D.

Rolls-Royce have developed TotalCare™, an innovative approach to serving gas turbine operators’ needs. A key element of making these services effective is the ability to minimise unplanned equipment downtime, and a major component of this capability is the provision of diagnostic and prognostic tools through advanced health monitoring. The field of condition and health monitoring is developing at a rapid pace. As computing power increases, novel complex signal processing techniques, augmented with state-of-the-art pattern recognition methods, are now being applied to on-line monitoring systems and operated in real-time. In some cases these new methods are able to extract valuable diagnostic indicators from existing measured signals, and hence avoid costly system upgrades. This paper provides an assessment of past aviation events and considers emerging technologies that are likely to be incorporated into future products.