Background
C3 Readiness is responsible for aircraft predictive maintenance, but because maintenance must be done on the ground, all data must be processed and triaged during the aircraft's downtime.
Approach
Biggest problem was balancing how much automation provides the most value and comfort for our users.
The consideration for each agent included: trigger event, the level of automation, and most importantly the error and fallback states for when something goes wrong.
Most decisions leveraged on how much information the agent manipulates and how much time it saved our users.
Impact
Readiness agentic pipeline spans multiple fleets including: B-1B, C-5, KC-135, C-130, and C-17 aircraft.
On B-1B fleet alone, it 79 cases per year, avoiding 3,350 hours of maintenance total (42.4 maintenance hours per case), and translating to $8.8 million in annual value.