1. DAME: The route to commercialisation Tom Jackson University of York

2. Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - DAMENeSC 22 nd April 2005 Project Partners EPSRC Funded, £3.2 Million, 3 years, commenced Jan 2002. 4 Universities: –University of York, Dept of Computer Science –University of Sheffield, Dept of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering –University of Oxford, Dept of Engineering Science –University of Leeds, School of Computing and School of Mechanical Engineering Industrial Partners: –Rolls-Royce –Data Systems and Solutions –Cybula Ltd

3. Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - DAMENeSC 22 nd April 2005 DAME Objectives Proof of concept for Grid technology in the aerospace diagnostic domain. Three primary Grid challenges: –Data Management; –Rapid data mining and analysis of fault data; –Information management and data fusion for diagnosis/prognosis applications; Other key (commercial) issues: –Security –Virtual Organisations –Quality of Service issues (and Service Level Agreements )

4. Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - DAMENeSC 22 nd April 2005 Operational Scenario Engine flight data Airline office Maintenance Centre London Airport New York Airport GRID Diagnostics Centre Engine flight data European data centre Engine flight data Airline office Maintenance Centre London Airport New York Airport US data centre GRID Diagnostics Centre Engine flight data

5. Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - DAMENeSC 22 nd April 2005 Exploitation Route DAME Technology pull-through in DTI funded BROADEN project –Industrial strength grid –Deployed across diverse RR operating divisions –Includes cluster computing –Grid Infrastructure managed by EDS DAME methods will be deployed on operational test- bed data Project launched 1 st April 2005.

6. Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - DAMENeSC 22 nd April 2005 Success Factors Strong industrial engagement achieved –Early Use Case development –Demonstrator closely aligned to RR and DS&S business process –Industrial trials of subsets of technology Consideration of commercial drivers –Scalable methods –Security and dependability analysis –Quality of Service Effective demonstrator –Combined Technology and Business issues –Deployed on operational Grid (WRG)

7. Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - DAMENeSC 22 nd April 2005 Challenges Balance of research vs development effort –Effort to build demonstrator –Rapid migration of research output into demonstrator –Responding to ‘customer’ requirements Changing standards (GT2-GT4) Gaps in middleware –eg configurable workflow tools Data Access and commercial sensitivities Distributed development effort

8. Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - DAMENeSC 22 nd April 2005 Summary DAME achieved strong & effective industrial engagement Confidence in PoC led to follow on industrial exploitation Demonstrator was effective for both technology developers and business managers Pilot projects require different balance of research skills Achieving industry engagement takes time & effort