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The PILOT Project

Working Group in Intelligent Aviation Services

PILOT (for Prognostics Integrated Logistics) is a consortium of global universities, aerospace manufacturing companies, and airlines that have aligned to engage in collaborative research and development activities to achieve significant improvements in the provisioning of intelligent aviation services.

Specifically, PILOT hopes to achieve improvements in aviation asset management through the conduct of research and development activities that promote intelligent technologies, including prognostics and intelligent software, in activities such as aircraft health monitoring, maintenance planning, parts logistics and supply chain management. Research activities include:

  • Assess and evaluate state-of-the-art prognostics and related sensor, intelligent agent, and information technologies from the perspective of aircraft health management;
  • Develop new logistics and supply chain concepts and models that are motivated by new intelligent prognostics and RFID;
  • Identify new capabilities and service offerings that have the potential that create business opportunities for industry members of PILOT.
  • Model, simulate and assess performance improvements and competitive benefits of new prognostics-integrated practices, policies and strategies across the value chain; and
  • Develop intelligent prototypes and applications in UNC’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory that can be scaled for future implementation in an operational environment.

For more information on the PILOT program contact: Noel Greis [noel_greis@unc.edu]

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