Aicadium partners with premier aviation services provider to enhance productivity and workplace safety

Objective

Improve organisational productivity while prioritising safety

Technology

CCTV + Computer vision AI + Machine learning

Industry

Aircraft maintenance + Aviation + Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO)

Aviation Maintenance: An MRO Company’s Pursuit of Excellence

The Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) sector is currently navigating two critical challenges: enhancing productivity to reduce cost and increasing safety awareness to decrease the incidence of accidents. The significance of safety and productivity in aviation maintenance cannot be overstated.

Against this backdrop, Aicadium has partnered with a leading Singapore-based MRO company to usher in a new era of refined aviation maintenance practices. This collaboration melds Aicadium’s AI and data analytics expertise with the MRO company’s focus on a safe working environment and operational efficiency. This innovative initiative promises a paradigm shift in aircraft maintenance by employing computer vision technology, which is adept at converting raw image and video data into actionable insights to ensure a safer and more efficient workplace.

Areas of focus

Aicadium’s AI-powered computer vision solution enhances the capabilities of the existing hardware infrastructure within the MRO facility. By integrating with current surveillance systems, it extends from visual data capture to a comprehensive suite encompassing modeling, data analytics, and data visualisation. ‘Aicadium View’ extracted footage and images, deploying sophisticated analysis to deliver practical, actionable insights, marking a significant stride in the evolution of MRO operations.

Aicadium View empows the Base Maintenance Division (BMD) manager with advanced technology and data-driven insights to effectively identify root causes of unproductive processes.

Productivity optimization

Efficiency and productivity are paramount in the highly competitive aviation industry. By streamlining maintenance and repair processes, downtime is minimised, and aircraft availability is maximised, serving customer demands and cost savings.

Aircraft detection and projection into 3D coordinates

People detection and tracking

People flow / movement analysis within the maintenance facility

People time spent across different work zones for evaluating workforce productivity

Planned maintenance hours vs. actual hours, pinpointing the root causes of unproductive processes

Multi camera tracking for analysing footage from various angles, reducing redundant counts from overlapping camera views

Safety enhancement

Maintaining stringent safety protocols and standards is essential for accident prevention and regulatory compliance. This commitment is instrumental in assisting the Workplace Safety & Facilities Division (WSFD) to create a safer and more secure work environment. 

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) detection, including safety caps, vests, and safety boots worn on the ground

Door safety nets detection at aircraft doors

Safety harness detection while working at height

A holistic overview of surveillance and unsafe act data, compliance trend analysis, and other safety information to proactively improve safety standards.

Our approach

Our team’s AI expertise and experience uniquely positioned us to partner and develop solutions for MRO that would enable them to improve efficiency and accuracy organization-wide. Our complete pipeline engineering successfully solved MRO areas of opportunity which involved data capture, model training, model inference, and deployment.

Model training

01

Camera
infrastructure

02

Visual data
extraction

03

Video
labeling

04

Model
creation

05

Bench-
marking

06

Ready for
deployment

Model inference

01

Camera
integration

02

Pre-
processing
step

03

Object/
people
detection

04

Post
processing
step

05

Business
Logic

06

Output

Aicadium impact

Through a collaborative approach and robust tech offerings, we successfully delivered tailored MRO solutions that boosted safety awareness, reduced cost, and enhanced productivity. Our skilled AI scientists and software developers met the specific customer needs, crafting an intuitive solution accessible to all, regardless of their AI knowledge.

We harnessed the full potential of existing camera infrastructure and other hardware assets to elevate safety and productivity across different work zones. Aicadium View, as a comprehensive solution, which includes multi-camera tracking, PPE detection and the optimisation of planned maintenance schedules, facilitates quicker and more cost-effective operations. This strategic implementation has significantly improved operational efficiency and workplace safety, showcasing our commitment to delivering superior and effective MRO solutions.

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