Title :
Integrated diagnostic for new French fighter
Author :
Courtois, Michel ; Pouilly, Jean
Author_Institution :
Dassault Aviation, St. Cloud, France
Abstract :
An important logistic support function of airborne weapon systems is automatic failure detection and localization. On the new French fighter aircraft this function is being developed as a whole, taking into account the needs for all maintenance levels. O-level maintenance uses integrated monitoring and testing, which is described. The intermediate level maintenance is performed by a unique test system used for production equipment acceptance and maintenance in the user´s operational intermediate workshops. Appropriate data are exchanged between maintenance levels by means of digital media. The main feature has been to apply, to all maintenance levels and as far as possible, the integrated maintenance concept which has been used for automatic diagnostics in Mirage 2000 aircraft taking into account the good results experienced since 1982.<>
Keywords :
aircraft instrumentation; automatic test equipment; computerised monitoring; fault location; maintenance engineering; military equipment; production testing; French fighter aircraft; Mirage 2000 aircraft; O-level maintenance; airborne weapon systems; automatic diagnostics; automatic failure detection; integrated maintenance; integrated monitoring; intermediate level maintenance; logistic support function; operational intermediate workshops; production equipment acceptance; Aircraft manufacture; Clouds; Fault detection; Maintenance; Military aircraft; Performance evaluation; Production systems; Software testing; System testing; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
AUTOTESTCON '92. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference, Conference Record
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0643-0
DOI :
10.1109/AUTEST.1992.270079
