Condition-Based Maintenance / Equipment Health Monitoring

U.S. Navy vessels must maintain maximum operational readiness to meet mission requirements. Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) and Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM) maximize fleet availability by enabling proactive intervention before equipment failures occur. By continuously monitoring system health and identifying issues early, CBM/EHM prevents unplanned maintenance and material casualties that sideline vessels, ensuring ships remain mission-ready when and where needed.

Today’s warships have complex Hull, Mechanical and Electrical (HME) systems. Failures in these systems can result in a ship missing operational commitments. Current solutions include basic trending which does not provide the required analytics to predict a failure. Other solutions require the addition of multiple additional sensors, data acquisition units and network connections adding cost, weight and complexity to the ship. As these HME systems are currently monitored by installed machinery control systems, the ability to use the currently collected data to provide CBM/EHM capabilities offers significant improvements to ships readiness with little additional cost.