Designing for health

Author

Beshears, Raymond ; Butler, Larry

Author_Institution

Raytheon Co., Waltham, MA

Volume

9

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

28

Abstract

System readiness is vital to supporting the war fighter´s needs. A robust health management system (HMS) enables the war fighter and maintainer to quickly access the health of a system through diagnostics and the probable failure impact of a mission through prognostics increasing probability of mission success. This systems engineering approach to integrated diagnostics and prognostics provides the foundation to supporting the total test environment with traceability of requirements through analysis and implementation while reducing false alarms and could-not duplicates (CNDs)

Keywords

failure analysis; management science; military systems; systems engineering; could-not duplicates; failure impact; health design; health diagnostics; health management system; integrated diagnostics; mission success probability; prognostics; system readiness; systems engineering; war fighters; Cost benefit analysis; Logistics; Performance analysis; Process design; Production facilities; Refining; Systems engineering and theory; Technology management; Testing; US Department of Defense;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIM.2006.1664038

Filename

1664038