Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) have been used on helicopters, jet engines and on commercial vehicles for many years.  Its benefits in improving availability and managing both maintenance and logistics have been exploited for commercial aircraft and vehicles, but have only recently been utilized for advantage in the military land environment.  Yet the adoption of HUMS within a policy of Condition Based Maintenance can dramatically improve the effectiveness of the maintenance and logistic support to equipment with the resulting benefits in operational availability that are demanded on the battlefield by modern forces.  Once HUMS and CBM is adopted, the benefits of predictive maintenance using prognostics and Prognostic Health Management (PHM) can be achieved with further benefits in efficiency being delivered.

The course will assess the technology involved, the cost and management benefits to be achieved, the data and information required and fully explore the issues to be overcome in adoption of HUMS in military land systems.

Instructor

Chris Hockley is a senior lecturer at Cranfield University, the Royal Military College and the UK Defence Academy following a distinguished 36-year career as a mechanical engineer in the RAF.  

Michael Houston is the QinetiQ Chief Engineer and senior manager responsible for platform HUMS and structural integrity.

This course is scheduled for 26 - 28 November 2012.