The AM Council's Asset Management Models – What are they and why are the needed?

Recent thinking about Asset Management has focused attention on “the way of thinking about asset management” and how such thinking should assist people involved in asset management, from legislators and financiers through to engineers and the community.

To guide this thinking, the Asset Management Council (Australia) has developed a set of complementary asset management models, whose collective purpose is to present that thinking in a simple, structured and effective manner.  Click for More...

Taking the Integrated Condition Assessment System to the Year 2010

Since the early 1990’s, the United States Navy has been augmenting control systems by installing the Integrated Condition Assessment System (ICAS) to enable automated Monitoring, Trending, and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM). The Navy, capitalizing on Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software, has successfully deployed ICAS on 95 surface ships....

This paper will trace the history of the ICAS software product in the Navy and detail the enhancements required to bring it to a seamless integration with the control systems of 2010.  Click for More...

A Plug-and-Play Module for Assessing Real-Time Mission Readiness Using Subsystem Health and Interactions

Impact Technologies, LLC. will to develop and demonstrate mission readiness assessment techniques using component and subsystem health indexes in an open systems architecture (OSA).The proposed work will utilize mission requirements, component health states, and potentially available models to develop a plug-and-play software module that can be used to assess system mission readiness in real-time. Click for More...