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The Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM) Conference is an annual forum designed to address the technical requirements of health management to meet the goals of the Department of Defense and other end users. This year’s Conference solicits the involvement, of not only the scientists and researchers identifying solutions to health management challenges, but also the end user; the individuals and organizations identifying the health management requirements and applying the developed technologies.
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Bringing together the scientists, researchers and end users, the Conference organizers will address the USD (AT&L) instruction released in late 2007; “Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) for Material Maintenance.” The document identifies CBM+ as the primary approach to addressing four areas of concern for both the field level user and the commander: Mission Availability, Mission Reliability, Maintenance Downtime, and Operation Costs. Cost, always an issue, is especially pertinent when we mention “maintenance operations for weapon systems, equipment, and materiel throughout all life-cycle phases.”* What is the most efficient way to provide necessary maintenance and reduce costs? An efficient application of ISHM technologies helps the primary user and mission commanders better manage their resources and decrease costs, while increasing mission success rates and reliability, which reduces maintenance downtime.
Each of the DoD services may have its own set of challenges driving concepts of operations.However, solutions may exist or may be in development that apply to multiple challenges and can be implemented on a variety of systems and subsystems. Cooperative efforts are needed to reduce the time it takes users to meet their requirements and those of DoD. The ISHM Conference strives to provide a forum for researchers and scientists to discuss current research and development, as well as include users in the conversation to identify near-term needs and existing solutions.
*Department of Defense Instruction Number 4151.22 , December 2, 2007.
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