Abstract CBM+ is the application and integration of appropriate processes, technologies, and knowledge-based capabilities to achieve the target availability, reliability, and operation and support costs of DoD systems and components across their life cycle. CBM+ shifts equipment maintenance from an unscheduled, reactive approach at the time of failure to a more proactive and predictive approach …
Abstract Cold spray is a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly repair technology that can effectively reduce non-mission capable rates for DOD assets. It is an additive, solid-state thermal spray process that restores components’ critical dimensional features lost to corrosion, wear or mechanical damage. The process bonds metal to metal in a relatively low-heat environment, whereby metal or combinations …
Abstract AM offers numerous opportunities to improve the DoD maintenance enterprise’s ability to deliver weapon systems faster and in some cases with improved designs. Some of AMs greatest benefits include time, cost, complexity, and customization, compared to some its greatest challenges in quality, trust in meeting requirements, and workforce development. OSD and the military services …
Abstract Modern weapon systems can have thousands of wiring circuit paths as well as multiple complex electronic LRUs/WRAs. Frequent handling, maintenance actions, aging, and extreme operational environments can all cause progressive deterioration of the performance of wiring systems and LRU/WRA circuit paths. These result in solid-state opens or shorts, premature failures of a system, degradation …
Abstract Corrosion costs the DoD over $20 billion annually and has a measurable and significant impact on system availability and directly causes, or is a factor in, many safety mishaps. The purpose of this forum is to exchange information on the structure and activities of the OSD and Military Department-level corrosion prevention and control (CPC) …