Vehicle Health & Sustainment Focus Day: Monday, April 19, 2010
Give time to the issues that matter most. Sign up for the Vehicle Health & Sustainment Focus Day and dedicate more time to dialogue and networking in a classroom environment.
This in-depth and interactive series of workshops will examine current challenges in vehicle health and sustainment for the vehicles community. Hear from leading academic researchers and government organizations on the technology and processes that are revolutionizing research & development for vehicles currently in overseas contingency operations. These practical application sessions will deliver high impact training led by globally recognized experts.
During a Focus Day, you can expect:
- Smaller, classroom-style sessions
- Live applications
- In-depth discussions with the class leaders and fellow attendees
7:30am Registration & Coffee
8:00am - 10:00am Vehicle Health and Maintenance: Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) for Military Vehicles
The IMS Center has pioneered many advances in prognostics technologies
including the Watchdog Agent (autonomic prognostics computing on a chip)
technology for military vehicles. This workshop will look at key research
activities focused on four fundamental areas: 1) informatics tools to transform
machine condition data to health information; 2) advanced prognostics
algorithms for product performance degradation assessment and prediction;
3) integrated software and hardware platforms that think, link, reconfigure
and sustain for resilient performance; 4) closed-loop product design and
optimization through the use of product embedded service information.
How will you benefit:
- Discover how to enable products and systems to achieve, and sustain, near-zero breakdown performance
- Learn the latest on "predict and prevent" methodology
What you will learn:
- How to secure business alliances through collaborative testbeds
- What new high-impact emerging technologies are being validated
- The use of intelligent e-maintenance systems
Session Leader:
Dr. Jay Lee
Director, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS), Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Cincinnati
10:00am
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12:00pm The Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity and the Future of Vehicles
This workshop session will analyze how AMSAA conducts responsive and effective materiel and logistics systems analyses to support decision making for equipping and sustaining the US Army. Emphasis on how the organization is committed to giving the Soldier decisive capability to win across the spectrum of future military operations. The session will also discuss how providing analytical expertise to help guide Army in selecting, acquiring, fielding & sustaining new technologies.
What you will learn:
- How to develop the analytical workforce of the future.
- What is ahead for materiel systems and how it affects Industry
- Leveraging new technology in the needs for the warfighter
Sessions Leader:
Scott Kilby
Operations Research Systems Analyst
AMSAA (Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 3:00pm The Latest on Logistics and Acquisition for Vehicle Sustainment: The Asset Visibility (AV) Program
Our mission is to provide a joint logistics capability that collects and fuses
information from multiple Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Military Service,
and U.S. Transportation Command systems, providing users with a timely
and accurate report of the location, movement, status, and identity of units,
personnel, equipment, and supplies in the global distribution logistics
pipeline. Learn how this is achieved in the vehicles sector.
How you will benefit:
- Increase readiness through visibility of lateral support and DoD excess opportunities
- Reduce re-ordering with status of items in storage, process, transit, or theater
- See inventory mapping and low-bandwidth options
What you will learn:
- How to harness low bandwidth systems for the warfighter
- Increasing visibility for maximized utilization of assets
- New AV remote scenarios and solutions
Session Leader:
Rick Odden & Karen Blanck
Asset Visibility (AV) Program Management Office
Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS)
3:00pm - 5:00pm Gain Insight Into Total Diagnostic and Prognostic Development: New Innovations On Diagnostic And Prognostic Development For Tactical Vehicles
Learn about a technology that detects damage to critical suspension
components in military vehicles simply by driving over a speed bump-like
"diagnostic cleat" containing sensors. The aim of this technology is to save
time and maintenance costs by catching damage before it leads to failure in
the field. This system measures vibrations created by forces that a vehicle's tires
apply to the cleat. Damage is detected in the tires, wheel bearings, and
suspension components by using signal processing software to interpret the
sensor data. By using the instrumented cleat and other "condition-based"
maintenance methods, the military could reduce costs by performing work on
vehicles when needed based on the condition of parts instead of performing
scheduled maintenance on vehicles regardless of whether they need the work.
How you will benefit
- Enhance maintenance and supportability for tactical vehicles
- Improving tactical fuel monitoring and management
- Delivering embedded diagnostic & prognostic development
What you will learn:
- Classic data fusion techniques for RUL estimation
- Prognosis of dynamic components
- Prognosis logistics of dynamic components
Session Leader:
Dr. Ling Rothrock
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
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