TY - GEN
T1 - Platform degrader analysis for the complex systems for the design and application of condition based maintenance
AU - Banks, Jeffrey C.
AU - Lebold, Mitchell
AU - Reichard, Karl Martin
AU - Hines, Jason A.
AU - Brought, Mark S.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - The US Army's Heavy Brigade Combat Team (HBCT) is investigating the implementation of Vehicle Health Management Systems across its fleet of platforms. A vehicle degrader analysis was conducted to determine where the application of vehicle health management systems (VHMS) could potentially have the greatest impact on increasing maintainer effectiveness and operational availability. The analysis was conducted for M1 Abrams tanks and M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles using data from three sources: 1) multi-year statistical data on repairs, operating and support costs, and logistics data, 2) interviews with maintainers, service representatives and operators, and 3) questionnaires completed by the platform OEM's. The paper will describe how these alternative data and information sources were used when ideal data and information sources were not available. The statistical data provided an indication of vehicle consumable and repairable cost drivers, part replacement quantity and some indication of component failure isolation for vehicle systems. The interviews with vehicle maintainers, field service representatives and operators provided insight into platform reliability, maintainability and human factors issues. The maintainability, reliability and diagnostic coverage information from the OEM's, provided information about mission criticality and general diagnostic capability for specific vehicle sub-systems and components. The results of the degrader analysis include a list of components and sub-systems that contribute most to maintainability, reliability and vehicle operational availability issues. The degrader results, were used to develop the conceptual design of the optimum application of embedded vehicle diagnostics and prognostics for more effective and efficient HCBT platform maintenance, logistic support and platform life cycle management.
AB - The US Army's Heavy Brigade Combat Team (HBCT) is investigating the implementation of Vehicle Health Management Systems across its fleet of platforms. A vehicle degrader analysis was conducted to determine where the application of vehicle health management systems (VHMS) could potentially have the greatest impact on increasing maintainer effectiveness and operational availability. The analysis was conducted for M1 Abrams tanks and M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles using data from three sources: 1) multi-year statistical data on repairs, operating and support costs, and logistics data, 2) interviews with maintainers, service representatives and operators, and 3) questionnaires completed by the platform OEM's. The paper will describe how these alternative data and information sources were used when ideal data and information sources were not available. The statistical data provided an indication of vehicle consumable and repairable cost drivers, part replacement quantity and some indication of component failure isolation for vehicle systems. The interviews with vehicle maintainers, field service representatives and operators provided insight into platform reliability, maintainability and human factors issues. The maintainability, reliability and diagnostic coverage information from the OEM's, provided information about mission criticality and general diagnostic capability for specific vehicle sub-systems and components. The results of the degrader analysis include a list of components and sub-systems that contribute most to maintainability, reliability and vehicle operational availability issues. The degrader results, were used to develop the conceptual design of the optimum application of embedded vehicle diagnostics and prognostics for more effective and efficient HCBT platform maintenance, logistic support and platform life cycle management.
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U2 - 10.1109/AERO.2014.6836443
DO - 10.1109/AERO.2014.6836443
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904015758
SN - 9781479916221
T3 - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
BT - 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference
Y2 - 1 March 2014 through 8 March 2014
ER -
