Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Aircraft Maintenance Message-ID: <1991Feb22.232614.4534@cbnews.att.com> Date: 22 Feb 91 23:26:14 GMT References: <1991Feb21.030659.12033@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 37 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Irving Chidsey In article <1991Feb21.030659.12033@cbnews.att.com> lenochs%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil (DRCOA1::LENOCHS) writes: Much deleted. < But the goal of all of these systems is trend and failure analysis. < These systems use the collected data to determine if particular items < are performing as expected. One system was used by General Dynamics to < fix an F-16 problem. The manager at GD looked at a months worth of < 'RTOK' results (re-test OK), and determined that the socket the black < box is plugged into on the test station and the socket on the aircraft < had different failure thresholds (the test station was designed to take < more abuse, since boxes are plugged in and out all day long). < < Currently, only the F-117As and the F-16s from Torrejon AB in Spain < have online data reporting and analysis in the Gulf (that I know of). < All the other aircraft depend on mailing the paper forms back to their < units for data entry. Fifteen-twenty years ago I had a friend working on a similar program for tracking maintainance of jeeps & trucks to get a handle on what their replacement life might be. Data had to be transcribed from paper records to punched cards. Stock numbers and mileage were a big problem, either ellegible or wrong. At that time they had not succeeded in tracking a vehicle to junking before the records were so messed up they had to abandon the effort. Irv -- I do not have signature authority. I am not authorized to sign anything. I am not authorized to commit the BRL, the DOA, the DOD, or the US Government to anything, not even by implication. The do not tell me what their policy is. Irving L. Chidsey Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com