Maintenance, prognostics and diagnostics approaches for aircraft engines

In avionics application one of the most important competition factors is the reliability, given that the failure occurrence may leads to a critical state for the functioning of the aircraft. Different maintenance, prognostics and diagnostics approaches are possible with the final aim to optimize both system's availability and safety. Aircraft engines represent a safety critical part of the airplane. For this reason it is a key issue to allocate the proper amount of maintenance at each individual maintenance event. In this paper a mathematical replacement model is proposed to guarantee that the correct amount of maintenance is performed.