Flight operations at Boeing
Aviation

Flight operations at Boeing

Insight Accelerator is a first-of-its-kind predictive maintenance solution that provides powerful advanced analytics and customized alerting – all in an easy-to-use tool. By analyzing full flight data from thousands of onboard sensors, users can derive prognostic insights and create alerting algorithms unique to each airline’s operation.

Harness the power of built-in augmented analytics to identify patterns of premature component failure to pre-emptively perform maintenance and avoid the high impacts of unwanted disruptions – all without needing data science or advanced programming skills.

In one instance during the beta testing, an aircraft’s captain called via satellite phone that a major subsystem had gone down on the plane, mid-Atlantic. We rapidly onboarded the aircraft to the beta test, applied our in-house algorithms and identified which unit had failed. By the time the aircraft landed in New York, the spare part had already been sourced and sent to the tarmac. The repair was conducted as the aircraft was turned around, and ultimately departed on-time with no delay or interference to the schedule.

What distinguishes you from other developers?

I've built data pipelines across 3 continents at petabyte scales, for over 15 years. But the data doesn't matter if we don't solve the human problems first - an AI solution that nobody uses is worthless.

Are the robots going to kill us all?

Not any time soon. At least not in the way that you've got imagined thanks to the Terminator movies. Sure somebody with a DARPA grant is always going to strap a knife/gun/flamethrower on the side of a robot - but just like in Dr.Who - right now, that robot will struggle to even get out of the room, let alone up some stairs.

But AI is going to steal my job, right?

A year ago, the whole world was convinced that AI was going to steal their job. Now, the reality is that most people are thinking 'I wish this POC at work would go a bit faster to scan these PDFs'.

When am I going to get my self-driving car?

Humans are complicated. If we invented driving today - there's NO WAY IN HELL we'd let humans do it. They get distracted. They text their friends. They drink. They make mistakes. But the reality is, all of our streets, cities (and even legal systems) have been built around these limitations. It would be surprisingly easy to build self-driving cars if there were no humans on the road. But today no one wants to take liability. If a self-driving company kills someone, who's responsible? The manufacturer? The insurance company? The software developer?