Automated Maintenance Prescription Generation for Shipboard Systems

"Foster-Miller, Inc. proposes to develop new tools and integrate existing Foster-Miller Machinery Health Management tools into the design of an automated prescription based health maintenance system (PBHMS). The proposed PBHMS will:Generate prescriptions that are dynamically updated and priority ranked by information provided from run-time integrated diagnostic/prognostic software modules.Incorporate battle damage response capability.Easily accept new diagnostic/prognostic modules.Interface with Integrated Condition Assessment System (ICAS), current diagnostic/prognostic and planning/scheduling modules via middleware using Open System Architecture Condition Based Maintenance (OSA-CBM) standards.Provide "What if" analysis allowing onboard and shore-based maintainers to link system failure modes and particular maintenance tasks with operational and mission requirements.Provides simulation capability allowing user to forward project, examine simulated failure consequences, and select alternatives as part of future automated mission emergency and contingency management systems.Provide ship-wide restoration projections, individual machine downtime projections, and battle damage repair planning.In Phase I, a PBHMS design will document functional details needed to design the prototype PBHMS software package for a selected shipboard system in a Phase II. The design will include sample prescriptions, middleware architecture and middleware inte