Reducing No Fault Found and Improving Operational Availability through Intermittent Fault Detection and Isolation

Author: Ken Anderson, Vice President, Universal Synaptics Corporation   For those in the avionics repair and maintenance business, the acronyms NFF (No Fault Found) and CND (Cannot Duplicate) are unfortunately, all too familiar terms. After several decades of frustration with this illusive phenomenon, it continues to consume an enormous amount of test and diagnostic effort […]

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Maintenance Innovation Challenge Finalists Announced

The Joint Technology Exchange Group (JTEG) principals have reviewed and scored the 70 abstract and quad chart submittals for the 2015 Maintenance Innovation Challenge competition. Congratulations to the following 6 finalists that have been selected to present at the Maintenance Innovation Challenge on Monday, 7 December from 3:00-4:30 pm: Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing for Increased […]

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NAWCADLKE Seeks Intermittance Tester Capabilities

The Department of Defense (DoD) aviation communities require a Joint Intermittence Tester (JIT) to detect intermittent faults in Weapons Replaceable Assemblies (WRA)/Line Replaceable Assemblies (LRU). These faults are sometimes referred to as: No Fault Found (NFF), Can Not Duplicate (CND), No Evidence of Failure (NEOF) and Nothing to Report (NTF). Intermittent faults are now one […]

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RAPDASA 2015

This year the 16th International Conference sponsored by the Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa (RAPDASA) will be held from Nov 4-6th in Pretoria South Africa. For the additive manufacturing community this is the premiere event in South Africa and boasts of strong technical presentations and very informative discussion on a wide range of […]

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Information and Nomination Procedures for the 2015 Industry Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award

The Industry Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award – 2015 Since 1995, the National Center for Advanced Technologies (NCAT), acting as the agent for the Associations and Societies involved in the Multi-Association Industry Affordability Task Force, has sought to recognize an individual and small working groups/teams in the defense manufacturing community for making outstanding contributions to furthering […]

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NAVAIR Seeks Pinless Connector Applications: Updated

The Navy and Marine Corps have found aircraft wiring issues to be among the top contributors of aircraft performance degradation and downtime. There are many false removals of avionic systems due to faulty wires and degraded connectors, up to 80-90% in some cases. Frequent removal and reinstallation of avionics can cause the aircraft connectors to […]

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