An integrated maintenance management information system is the key to enabling condition based maintenance

In the CBM environment, health or condition is a function of an individual component, not families of components. In order to understand how a component degrades to a level where maintenance has to be performed, it is essential that the health and condition of that component can be understood by its individual ID. Likewise, the maintenance actions that are driven by its condition must be understood at both the fleet and local levels. In order to achieve that level of understanding, effective metrics must be generated using the data that comes from a task based, UID enabled MMIS. To achieve this goal will require transformation, not modernization, of today´s MMIS within the DoD.