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Tuesday, June 03, 2008, Auditorium 2 9:10 AM Gasturbines 1 Coatings for mobile and stationary turbines, protection against wear, high temperature corrosion and thermal stresses, clearance control coatings for a better efficiency |
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Advanced knowledge system for coatings and the gas turbine MRO industry |
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Peter Chandler* / CA Technology Ltd, UK Wendy Hall/ University of Southampton, UK Nigel Shadbolt/ University of Southampton, UK Harith Alani/ University of Southampton, UK Martin Szomszor/ University of Southampton, UK |
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The exponential growth of data generated within thermal spraying and the industries it serves is, for many, a daunting business. Yet, this huge volume of data represents a largely untapped and potentially valuable resource capable of providing ?knowledge? rather than just ?information?. Many companies already use a range of Web based tools and their own intranets and understand that importance of data management (control and retrieval). However, the Web itself is changing and the vision for the future Web, the so-called Semantic Web, is set to further revolutionise how business will be done - another step change is probably on the way! One important aspect of this Web ?future? is that web pages will be greatly enriched and data will have additional information (tags) which help to describe it and more significantly, put the data into a context. This will enable machine readability and the use of query languages to ask direct questions. The idea of linking data semantically and building relationships between data was introduced in a poster at ITSC 2007. Since then, based upon these ideas, a proof of concept demonstrator has been built. The first application is in the area of thermal spray coatings for gas turbines, their Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) and market trending. A system has been built which stores and manipulates a wide range of data including; historical aircraft deliveries, RSS feeds of new aircraft sales, engine types, MRO business details, thermal spray coatings, market dynamics etc. Once set up the system can be interrogated to answer such questions as the number and type of engines in MRO shops in any geographical area, coating usage, market values, growth predictions and so on. This paper will discuss the potential implications for the thermal spray and gas turbine business of these exciting developments. |