NDLI: Portable maintenance aid instrument pack-improved weapon system diagnostics

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Maio, S.T. Orlidge, L.A.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	False removals are costly and add to the logistics tail of every weapon system. Integrating portable maintenance aids (PMAs) and maintenance information systems into the test repertoire can help significantly; however, these solutions do little to augment the information available for system test and diagnosis. Adding conventional test instrumentation under PMA control would provide the additional information we seek; however, these hardware intensive solutions are typically large, heavy and expensive. VXI offers an opportunity to consolidate instrumentation into a convenient package; however VXI modules are not designed to meet the rigor associated with the MIL-PRF-28800 Class 1 environment. Moreover, the majority of VXI products provide a single function. Therefore many VXI modules are required to provide the needed functionality, resulting in an instrumentation package that is large and awkward to use at best and quite often just not useable on the flightline. This paper addresses false removals, the challenges involved in addressing this issue, and the solution that is being implemented on the RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter program. A powerful approach to instrumentation that is both powerful and useable, and the test techniques that have been developed to augment diagnostic capability on the flightline, are described.
Sponsorship	IEEE Aerosp. & Electron. Syst. Soc. Instrum. & Meas. Soc. IEEE Huntsville Sect
Starting Page	194
Ending Page	203
File Size	548168
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	078037441X
ISSN	10807725
DOI	10.1109/AUTEST.2002.1047891
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-10-17
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Instruments Weapons System testing Logistics Hardware Packaging Pipelines Costs Personnel Tail
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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