Title: Data requirements and assessment of technologies enabling a product passport within products exposed to harsh environments: a case study of a high pressure nozzle guide vane

Authors: César Portillo-Barco; Fiona Charnley

Addresses: Research and Development, MARS-Wrigley, Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, CP 66358, Mexico ' Cranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D), Cranfield University, Cranfield Rd, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK

Abstract: The circular economy production model challenges the limitations of the current linear economic model of production. An improved product lifecycle management (PLM) system, such as in a product passport, can support the circular model. In order for such a system to be robust and reliable, knowledge needs to be created from raw data acquired by sensors in a product through its life. Nevertheless, data acquisition can be challenging or even impossible in harsh environments. Through a case study of a high pressure nozzle guide vane (HPNGV) in a jet engine (a product exposed to harsh environments), this paper aims to define what are the data requirements supporting use cases within a product passport and explore and propose novel applications of sensing technologies acquiring data in hostile environments. A systematic analysis of required data sets of an HPNGV supporting an enhanced knowledge was carried out. Furthermore, a state-of-the-art review in sensing technologies surrounding those sets of data was conducted; those technologies were then assessed, leading to recommendations for feasible and novel applications, which would facilitate a proof-of-concept-stage. Finally, the methodology framework presented is recommended for use with products with similar limitations.

Keywords: sensors; harsh environments; product passports; nozzle guide vanes; high pressure NGV; product lifecycle management; PLM; circular economy; data requirements; technology assessment; case study; data acquisition; jet engines; hostile environments; sensing technologies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPLM.2015.074145

International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management, 2015 Vol.8 No.3, pp.253 - 282

Received: 23 Jan 2015
Accepted: 20 Oct 2015
Published online: 12 Jan 2016 *

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