Health Management and Logistics Support for C-17

UNC is part of a Boeing team developing new health management capabilities for the C-17 aircraft. CLDS is developing agent-enabled decision-support tools that map fault data into maintenance and logistics response, including spare/repair parts logistics. Prognostics-enabled maintenance and logistics strategies, and corresponding design guidelines, represent a significant opportunity for the Air Force to achieve significant cost savings and enhanced readiness. Such a solution requires overcoming the disconnect between technology and operations-that is, building smart processes between prognostics-enabled aircraft and maintenance/logistics practices. The central driver of new prognostics capabilities is the benefit derived from real-time, closed-loop systems in which prognostics serve as an integral element in a feedback control scheme for the dynamic management of spare/repair parts in real time.