Applications

Compelling use cases in aerospace & defense

The aviation industry has a compelling value proposition for tagging flyable parts, with a significant return on investment to the tagging organization, and a subsequent benefit for all organizations involved in the maintenance and management of aviation parts over their life-cycle. Benefits include:

• Improved aircraft configuration management and line maintenance;
• Visibility of full maintenance history across organizations;
• Reduced occurences of "no fault found" conditions;
• Life-limited parts tracking and optimization;
• Reduced cost of compliance documentation;
• Recorded pedigree (for end of lease documentation / residual value).

A leap in aviation maintenance

Tego is the leading provider of high-memory passive tagging technology to the aviation industry, having been selected for several programs.

Airbus is using thousands of Tego chips on each A350XWB aircraft to transform the life-cycle management of flyable parts.

Standards based and interoperable

The aviation industry has been the leader in establishing standards for tag interoperability across organizations, and Tego worked closely with industry organizations including aircraft manufacturers, maintenance and repair (MRO) organizations, airlines and equipment manufacturers to establish the Air Transport Association (ATA) Spec 2000 specification for “RFID on Parts.”

In that process, Tego was the primary technical architect of the containerized data format and worked closely with the industry to ensure that the standard could be implemented using standard infrastructure without the need for optional or proprietary commands.

Rapid deployment

For end users considering adoption, a launch kit is available and can be used for both familiarization and deployment purposes. Using the kits, many customers have been able to start encoding tags and reading data within a couple of hours. Other products available include:

• AS5678 approved high-memory tags
• ATA Spec 2000 software for hand-held or fixed readers

High memory chips are available to tag manufacturers and to aviation equipment suppliers considering an embedded implementation, for example on circuit boards.

Tego also welcomes enquiries from prospective integrators and software partners considering moving into the space, whether proactively or in support of a customer.