Enterprise Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (eCBM+) Interoperability – Phase II Condition-based maintenance (CBM), a manufacturing industry best practice, effectively reduces a product’s risk of failure while also reducing the cost of maintaining it. By migrating from a maintenance approach based on fixed schedules to one based on demonstrated need, companies in the transportation and energy sectors have […]
Read More »Concurrent, Rapid Development and Sustainment NCMS promotes collaborative endeavors that not only provide a venue for the development and commercialization of new technologies, but that also cross-pollinate ideas to tackle industry-wide challenges. One such collaboration, between the U.S. Marine Corps and the Hendrick Motorsports (HMS) high performance racing team, focused on the similar problems that […]
Read More »PLM for Aircraft Support and Sustainment Phase IIIA-B Organizations that operate large vehicle fleets receive, organize, and disseminate enormous quantities of maintenance-related data. With vehicles dispersed across numerous sites and with multiple models requiring their own supply chains for replacement parts and components, fleet operators need robust data management systems to maintain inventories, deploy scarce […]
Read More »Joint Intermittence Testing (JIT) Capability – Phase II Introduction Wiring faults cost air carriers tens of millions of dollars a year, and intermittent faults―temporary and seemingly random shorts, breaks, and other failures―are especially challenging to find and fix, often being designated no-fault-found (NFF) when technicians try and fail to replicate the problem. Total failures in […]
Read More »Results of a CTMA project, Volumetric Accuracy for Large Machine Tools completed in 2010, play a prominent role in a recent feature article in Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Magazine. The CTMA project was a collaboration of Siemens Energy and Automation, The Boeing Company, Cincinnati Machine (now a part of FIVES Automation), Automated Precision Inc. (API), […]
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