Luxhoj, and Williams report on the use of artificial neural networks to capture and
retain complex underlying relationships and nonlinearities that exist between an aircraft's maintenance data and safety inspection reporting profiles.
Neural networks will be used to implement condition-based maintenance because real-time sensor data can be trended to predict out-of-tolerance conditions for critical equipment parameters.
Maintenance actions can then be initiated for an adaptive response to these anticipated system perturbations.
An oil and gas company in Denmark is examining the use of artificial neural networks to predict the meter factor (pulses/unit volume) or k factor for turbine flow meters.