FUMS™ technologies for verifiable affordable prognostics health management (PHM)

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3764-3781

  Azzam, Hesham ^a   Cook, Jonathan ^b   Driver, Stuart ^c  

^a Smiths Aerosp ES Southampton   (United Kingdom)

^b Aircraft Health Monitoring Group   (United Kingdom)

^c Propulsion Support Group Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AUTHORITY (DA); FLEET MANAGEMENT; FLIGHT AND USAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (FUMS); FLIGHT DATA RECORDERS (FDR);

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; MONITORING; RISK MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 11244250845     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2004.1368195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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