


The advent of the helicopter produced, among other things, the necessity for the mechanic, as well as the pilot, to fully understand the aircraft being flown and maintained. While the technical education of maintenance personnel generally included a course on the subject, it was generally conceded to be information of the 'nice to know' variety, but not mandatory for the successful performance of. In the days before the widespread use of the helicopter, it was relatively unimportant that the average aircraft mechanic possess a detailed knowledge of flight theory. It was conducted within the Arroyo Center's Manpower and Training Program. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Training. This Note documents the survey instruments and data sources used to support the analyses described in R-4242-A. Focusing on the specific case of helicopter maintenance, the report analyzes data from field units and recommends alternative training strategies that could achieve the savings intended for such programs at reduced risk to field readiness. Orvis, describes a methodology for analyzing the features, advantages, and disadvantages of such changes in training programs. R-4242-A, Design of Field-Based Grosstraining Progranis and Implications for Readiness, by William G. Prominent among these approaches to streamline individual training are elements involving the combination of two or more occupational specialties and the shifting of initial skill training from Army schools to on-the- job training (OJT) in field units. Rotorcraft health management and diagnosticsĪs part of a broad effort to reduce defense expenditures, the Army is exploring a number of new approaches to training soldiers. Programs demonstrate the capabilities of the IMD HUMS as a tool for System is being fielded on a number of helicopter platforms. Management functions along with specialized diagnostics tools. Workstations which provide maintainer configuration and maintenance The system is comprised of both onboard,įlightworthy LRUs which perform the requisite realtime data acquisition,Īnalysis, display and storage, supplemented with networked ground-based Operations, gearbox and drivetrain mechanical diagnostics, operationalĪnd structural usage, exceedance detection and processing and engine These functions support rotor track and balance Provides an extensive set of functions to support rotorcraft health andĭiagnostics processing.

Of many years of development on earlier programs. The current generation BFGoodrich Integrated Mechanicalĭiagnostics Health and Usage Monitoring System (IMD HUMS) is the result The paper describes the core QSI technology underlying the principal modules of the ISS system, the modeling and design issues addressed, the development and customization tasks performed to enable its integration with the HUMS system, and the status of developmental and operational testing.
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Developed under the Joint (Navy and Army) Advanced Health and Usage Monitoring System (JAHUMS) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) program, this maintenance support system involves the integration of commercially available Sikorsky Aircraft and QSI software applications, and the development of new custom modules and interfaces, to provide an integrated onboard and ground-based system for the health monitoring and maintenance of aircraft engines. (QSI) and a HUMS system, to support an integrated maintenance concept for the U.S. This paper describes a solution for health monitoring, diagnostic inference, and optimized troubleshooting, that leverages dependency-model-based reasoning tools developed by Qualtech Systems, Inc.
