Colin: Everyone wants to have insight in the future. There’s a factor of uncertainty that applies to everything that we do and just having more insight as to what lies ahead and having a map that we can take moving forward. I think it’s beneficial to anybody.
Chris: Data is the new oil. As soon as you go to a company and understand their data, you can understand pretty much what’s going on in their industry. So, you know what their pain points are.
Ben: We’ll do an investigation targeted at that particular component and they’ll theorize how failure modes may happen for it. They’ll create models, they’ll test those models with portions of the data digging more and more into depth.
Paul: Aircraft is a complex vehicle. In the past, it used to be analysis after the fact so we could come and say you know oh, three or four flights ago this became an issue we may want to look at that. Where today, you can take that data and process it a lot quicker so they can take actions at the aircraft as soon as the data comes off.
Chris: A lot of subject matter expertise in aviation data and, what happens is it translates really well into other things.
Colin: It’s a matter of learning the models, it’s a look it’s a matter of learning the environment you’re in and which models to apply to those environments and understanding the complexity that’s an iterative process that takes conversations with the customer.
Chris: Could be a pump and that could be dealing with milking cows or it could be you know dealing with a hydraulic pump on an aircraft. There’s a lot of similarities between predicting failures because a lot of people have large-scale machines and things like that and when they go down it costs a lot of money.
Paul: Same principles all you’re doing is you’re looking at the state, understanding how the item is acting, taking that data, analyze that data and finding issues and problems.
Ben: It’s actually about answering a real-world problem and that’s where we come into play. That’s where we really bring our skills and knowledge to the party so to speak.
