NAVAIR is undertaking digital transformation initiatives to improve weapon system readiness. One of these initiatives is Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+). CBM+ turns rich data into information about component, weapon system, and fleet conditions to forecast maintenance requirements, improve readiness, and cost efficiencies. NAVAIR is on a path to operationalize CBM+ within its existing mainstream processes, leveraging aircraft data to perform maintenance based on evidence of need and fix components before they fail. This new maintenance practice requires advancing current software technologies and test techniques to integrate Automatic Test Systems (ATS) into the CBM+ paradigm. This effort will focus on the design, development, and application of an integrated solution to support the characterization of smart avionics systems' health-ready capabilities, transformation of smart avionics systems data (health, environment, performance) into a standard format, and operationalizing the application of the standard data sets in existing test program sets-using condition-based or predictive maintenance (CBM/PdM) practices. Using open system standards, this solution will enhance ATS with the capability to support weapon system CBM/PdM practices, enable avionics systems test/repair efficiencies, and facilitate capture and exchange of ATS data/information to support NAVAIR CBM+ enterprise efforts. The solution will support both legacy and new naval aviation weapon systems and ATS.
Benefit: The technology developed under this effort can be applied to other domains such as commercial aviation, sea, space, and ground vehicle platforms, to advance the implementation of CBM and Predictive Maintenance practices. In addition, there is a potential for commercialization in other industries. For example, the technology resulting from this effort could be applied in industries such as power utilities, automotive, consumer appliances, medical equipment, and any commercial plants where condition monitoring of high-value assets is employed to improve production operations and equipment maintenance.
Keywords: CBM+, CBM+, Smart, Digital Transformation, Data, Solution, Enterprise, Predictive, ATS
