Research Article

Failure Prediction of Aircraft Equipment Using Machine Learning with a Hybrid Data Preparation Method

Table 1

The nine input variables and an output variable obtained from the maintenance data.

ParameterDescription

Flight hours (FH)The total duration of flight for an equipment on different aircraft in a selected time period
RMThe number of removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
PRThe number of planned removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
URThe number of unplanned removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
ORThe number of other removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
FRThe number of faults with removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
FPRThe number of faults with planned removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
FURThe number of faults with unplanned removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
SRThe number of safe removals of the equipment in the last 24 months
NF (output)The number of equipment failures in the last 24 months