Products:

GE is a leader in gas turbine engine diagnostics and prognostics and has developed unique products to provide comprehensive real-time engine gas path condition and usage monitoring. This technology has been successfully applied to a number of aerospace and industrial platforms and is now part of the engine monitoring capability of the Joint Strike Fighter programme.

The GE Engine Distress Monitoring System (EDMS) detects debris within the engine exhaust generated by external sources such as foreign objects or internally abradable seal or blade rubs, or from compressor damage or thermal erosion of hot gas path components such as combustor modules.

The GE Ingested Debris Monitoring System (IDMS) is capable of detecting single objects or multiple particulate in the intake and provides indication and discrimination of ingested foreign objects to establish whether damaging or non-damaging debris has entered the engine.

The EDMS and IDMS technologies are based on the physics of electrostatics where both systems detect the charge on debris particles in the gas path and were developed to meet the needs of engine gas path monitoring in aircraft and ground-based turbine engine applications. Installation is simple and does not affect the performance or operation of the monitored engine. EDMS and IDMS offer a number of operational and maintenance cost benefits.

Benefits

• Improves availability by reducing downtime

• Improves maintenance scheduling

• Reduces consequential damage through early and direct indication