Project Taranta

The RFID solution for Avio Aero

October 5th 2016

Presenters: Angelo Spalluto & Alberto

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Energy management

Oil & gas

Home business

AVIATION

Transport

Power & water

Capital

Health care

Commercial

engines & services

Military

engines & services

BGA & integrated

systems

Avionic &

Digital system

AVIO ARO

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MANUFACTURING SITE

Air Force fleets rely on our Brindisi plant: MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) centre of excellence for military aircraft engines. Here’s the focal site for aeroderivative gas turbines for marine and industrial applications. And the finest and biggest Frames and Cases for commercial engines are also manufactured here.

Brindisi

CORE EXPERTISE:Frames&Cases, Military MRO, Tests, M&I

650+employee

51,000+

sqm

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TARANTA

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BUSINESS NEED

End-to-end items traceability

Automated data entry

Minimize predictive manual operations

Real-time item visibility (e.g search, location)

Automated KPI’s

Paperless

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TECHNOLOGY

Pros

- No battery (passive)

- Low cost per single tag

- Tags can be attached to efficiency cards

Cons

- Not effective if shielded by metal

- Tracking obtained through gate crossing

Pros

- New/promising technology

- Tracking is very accurate

Cons

- Short battery life

- Expensive (10x)

- Meant to stay in a fixed location

- IT solutions not ready for integration at a corporate level

Bluetooth BeaconRFID

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RFID TECHNOLOGY

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GATE CROSSING - TEST RESULTS

Scenarios• Increasing levels of complexity

Test variables• Signal intensity of the tracking

system• Gate crossing speed

Cons• Undetected tags covered by large

metal parts (i.e. turbine disk)• Overlaid tags interference

Pros• Reliability independent of tags

number• Not responding tags were easy to

identify

100.0% 95.4% 99.2% 97.5% 98.2%

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10%

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Low32 tags

Medium28 tags

Medium54 tags

High84 tags

High100 tags

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Different Scenarios Results

STD

Lost

Identified

0 0.93.4 1.9 2

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ID Test

High Level of Complexity (100 tags)

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MOCK-UPS

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NEXT STEPS

NovMay Oct ‘17Q1

Phase 1: hand-held device + mobile app / web portal mock-up(no I/F, no middleware)

Phase 2: middleware installed + RFID printing

March

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QUESTIONS