2008 ISHM Agenda:

New at this year’s Conference

• A full day Tutorial is being offered on Monday,
• A scheduled briefing and discussion of the FAST Program and its ties to the Health Management Community,
• The conference venue is the Northern Kentucky Convention Center (Covington, KY) to provide the space needed to expand the exhibit hall, increase poster participation, and accommodate our increasing attendance numbers!

The technical program includes a plenary session, exhibits, poster presentations and three technical sessions.

 The 2008 Technical Sessions include:

Enabling Technologies
Session Chairs: Dr. Mark Seaver (NRL) and Mr. Charles Buynak
(AFRL/RXLP)

In the context of Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM), Enabling Technologies represent critical elements that are broadly applicable to the entire ISHM community. This breadth is well represented in both the oral presentations and in the poster session. Papers include innovative technology development efforts in both local and global sensor development, modeling efforts for diagnosis and prognosis, development and analysis of sensor networks, modeling and experimental approaches for validating and quantifying results, and developments in wireless sensors. Please join in learning about dramatic developments that are sure to expand your horizons as you think about and work towards the successful implementation of ISHM.

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Subsystem Applications
Session Chairs: Dr. Brian Beachkofski (AFRL/RZTS), Mr. Kevin Brown
(AFRL/RBSA) and Mr. J.B. Schroeder (AFRL/RB)

The subsystem applications session has three focus areas. Engines highlights techniques as applied to propulsion, turbine engines or turbo-machinery. Flight Controls focus is the application of ISHM technologies and methods on flight controls, while Structures examines the application of ISHM technologies and methods on structures and avionics. All three areas will address diagnostic and prognostic methods, fault-tolerance, and life estimation
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Integrated System Applications
Session Chairs: Ms. Betty Glass (Lockheed Martin) and Dr. Han Park
(Northrop Grumman)

Integrated system/platform-level health management concepts are being developed and tested today in both industry and government applications. By gathering anomalies, diagnosis, prognosis, and degradation at a centralized location and reasoning across different subsystems, these systems enable intelligent decision-making at the system level.
Health management is important in the development and operational phases but also plays a critical role in systems engineering during the early design phases. This session will address research and development work that builds trust and advances in ISHM methodologies. Presentations cover the vehicle life-cycle from reasoning systems and
on-board applications, to ground support systems, directed at improving both Mission Effectiveness and Operational Availability.

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Special Topic: 2007 F-15 Mishap: A Case Study for Health Monitoring Technology, Dr. Jeff Calcaterra (AFRL/RXLMP)

The November 2007 F-15C mishap revealed practical difficulties with extending the service life of older aircraft beyond their initial designs. This type of service life extension is becoming the norm for Air Force systems, which leads to challenges and opportunities for health monitoring technologies. The presentation will highlight the results of the accident investigation effort and detail some of the practical problems that must be overcome in order to develop a successful health monitoring strategy.

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Tutorial: Introduction to Integrated Systems Health Management
Dr. Michael Roemer (Impact Technologies, Inc.), Dr. Douglas Adams
(Purdue University), and Dr. Fu-Kuo Chang (Stanford University)

This tutorial provides a thorough introduction to the theory and application of integrated systems health management (ISHM). Methods for modeling systems are presented, followed by a session on measurement methods and practices. Algorithms for diagnosis and prognosis of system damage and system faults are given. Techniques for assessing the performance of ISHM systems are covered. Case studies demonstrate the application of these methods to real world problems. The course concludes with a session devoted to ISHM for aerospace systems. The detailed agenda is online at www.usasymposium.com/ishm/.

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Special Topic Presentation: The Role of Integrated Systems Health Management in Fully Reusable Access to Space Technologies (FAST), Dr. Jeff Zweber, AFRL/RBSD

Operationally Responsive Spacelift (ORS) ensures the Air Force has the capability to rapidly put payloads into orbit and maneuver spacecraft to any point in earthcentered space. The AFRL is currently in the process of demonstrating enabling technologies for ORS in the form of its Fully Reusable Access to Space Technologies (FAST) ground experiments. The FAST ground experiments consist of three tasks: Design and Operability, Airframe and Structural Health Management and Adaptive Guidance and Controls. This presentation will focus on the role Integrated Systems Health Management will play in FAST and the follow-on Integrated Subsystem Ground Experiment.

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Special Topic: System Lifecycle Integrity Management (SLIM),
Mr. James “Rick” McClelland  (HQ AFMC)

There are numerous efforts underway across the USAF to improve the way we manage and improve fleet reliability and availability. Examples of successful Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Condition-Based Maintenance, and Prognostics initiatives abound but there has been little effort to integrate and focus these activities or institutionalize their best practices to reduce duplication of effort. AF/A4I launched SLIM as a Develop & Sustain Weapon Systems initiative under Supply Chain Operations (SCO-1-19) to close that gap. SLIM intends to integrate various weapon system integrity programs, system monitoring, prognostics, and other reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) efforts from across the USAF. SLIM seeks to standardize engineering processes/tools associated with optimizing RAM-associated resources and increasing proactive system monitoring/performance assessment to facilitate product improvement throughout the lifecycle. This briefing will provide an overview of SLIM, its current
status, and the planned way ahead.

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