Welcome to the U.S. Military’s Not-So-New Technology Troubles
Condition-based maintenance needs to be carefully monitored with a vigilant eye to both ensure safe and effective functionality and reduce costs.
Imagine that the engine rotations on an Abrams main battle tank experience a potentially critical malfunction while conducting a high risk-combat mission or that a fighter jet operates with electronic systems nearing a point of operational failure. How can a person identify these impediments or potential problems and quickly correct them?
Repair procedures, sustainment details and key parameters of what’s called condition-based maintenance all need to be carefully monitored with a vigilant eye to both ensure safe and effective functionality and reduce costs. Industry and the military services are increasingly looking to artificial-intelligence-enabled “augmented reality” technology to perform these critical functions to lower costs and massively streamline these essential functions.