Product Integrity > Maintenance
With the increased emphasis throughout military acquisition programs on reducing costs and increasing operational readiness, there is tremendous pressure on industry to devise better, more stable, and less expensive hardware and software. To this end, ASFT engineers have been working with both military and large defense contractors to help make these goals a reality. Through maintainability engineering analyses, ASFT performs Failure Modes and Effects Analyses, Level of Repair Analyses, reviews Maintainability Design Criteria for effective system supportability, and determines the suitability of testing as a maintainability factor.
Today, ASFT performs maintenance engineering in support of submarine electronic systems. ASFT engineers collaborate with client engineers to influence system design, leveraging interchangeability among multiple manufacturers in order to maximize maintainability through "plug and play" configurations, mitigate risks of obsolete parts, and meet maintainability design constraints imposed by the clients. ASFT engineers have developed maintenance plans and have cataloged hundreds of maintenance procedures for both preventive and corrective maintenance. ASFT has performed validation and verification of these procedures in both simulated laboratory and real world environments. In addition, ASFT engineers conduct predictive maintenance studies to help clients develop new designs for higher system performance and reliability.
Today, ASFT is working with its clients to evaluate the feasibility of
developing software maintenance procedures that can be
integrated into an overall preventive/predictive
maintenance program. These types of procedures
have never incorporated software maintenance
in the past.
Principal Customers
Naval Sea Systems Command
Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command
Principal Skillsets
RCM Level I & II Certified Engineers
Electronics Engineers and Technicians
Mechanical Engineers and Technicians
