Honeywell is at Heli-Expo (Booth No. 1310) debuting its latest iteration of Zing for civil helicopters, an on-condition maintenance diagnostic system. A military version of Zing has been keeping U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters flying in some of the world’s worst conditions. The Boeing AH-64D was the first application of a Zing suite of systems, leveraging commercial of-the-shelf (COTS) technology to avoid traditional military avionics procurement expenses. The first civil Zing on-condition maintenance suite has been applied to the Bell 412, with more than 100 installations to date.
Mike Cuff, Honeywell v-p of helicopter and surface systems, said, “Honeywell is introducing our next generation of condition-based maintenance products. It will allow operators to monitor and identify more key critical points and components.
Zing does data mining for trend identification and directs mitigation before a condition becomes an AOG problem.” Zing HUMS obtains real-time component status and builds a database for predictive and diagnostic analysis. It allows an individual operator to access the collective database of a given helicopter model across a manufacturer’s entire fleet to become aware of trends and potential problems common to the type. The latest Zing offering features a broader suite of technology enabled in part by recent Honeywell acquisitions.
