Anyone from Rolls Royce here ? Don't they have a similar monitoring centre for their aviation engines ?
Not sure about all their aero engines but the Trent 900 is monitored 24/7 worldwide as are many of their more recent sea-going engines and power generation units. Apparently this is done to help develop maintenance schedules rather than fault find.
(I remember having doubts about the main bearings on my GSXR600R as a youth and spending the best part of three days removing the engine from the bike and then stripping it down to the crank. There was nothing wrong with the bearings (it turned out to be a fuelling problem!) but cost me nearly £200 in replacement gaskets and oil seals to find that out. Now a #3 engine on an A380 flying at 39,000ft on the other side of the world can have its vibration spectrum analysed to check on the state of a bearing at the click of a mouse.
Isn't technology marvellous?
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