Civil Aircraft Spare Parts Prediction and Configuration Management Techniques: Review and Prospect

Spare parts are treated as the basis to guarantee the safe and economic operation of civil aircraft, its scientific prediction and reasonable configuration play an important role in perfecting integrated logistics support (ILS) and achieving win-win situation of stakeholders (e.g. manufacturers, operators, maintenance providers). This paper studies the existing spare parts prediction and configuration methods of civil aircraft, and discusses future development trend of spare parts from the perspective of prediction and configuration, respectively. The current development status of civil aircraft spare parts prediction techniques are firstly introduced, according to demand characteristics of spare parts; the present research status of civil aircraft spare parts configuration methods are then elaborated, based on the traditional methods and machine learning methods; the development trend of civil aircraft spare parts prediction and configuration methods is finally analyzed, combined with the advantages and disadvantages of the existing methods of civil aircraft spare parts management methods. The efforts of this work provide a reference for the comprehensive management of civil aircraft spare parts and improve the perfection degree for the ILS of civil aircraft.