Determination of Costs and Benefits from Implementing an Engine Health Management System ARP4176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4271/ARP4176

Issuing Committee: E-32 Aerospace Propulsion Systems Health Management

Publisher: SAE International

Pages: 34

Rationale: This Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) provides insight into how to create a cost benefit analysis to determine the justification for implementing a propulsion/engine health management system. The considerable advancement of health management (HM) tools and capabilities in the past 10 years, coupled with some successful applications to legacy and new engines drove the need to re-write the original AIR and provide more specific guidance, thus creating the need for an ARP. Moreover, there has been increasing requests in recent years by potential implementers, both commercial and military, to better understand how to make a convincing business case within their organizations, This, for many, has become the stumbling block that prevents implementation of an Engine Health Management System.