Design & Run-Time Information Exchange for Health-Ready Components JA6268_201804

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4271/JA6268_201804

Issuing Committee: HM-1 Integrated Vehicle Health Management Committee

Publisher: SAE International

Pages: 86

Rationale: This Surface Vehicle & Aerospace Recommended Practice was created to help reduce existing barriers to the successful implementation of Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) technology into the aerospace and automotive sectors by introducing health-ready components. Health-ready components are augmented either to monitor and report their own health or, alternatively, ones where the supplier provides the integrator sufficient information to accurately assess the component’s health via a higher-level system on the vehicle. The principal motivation for health-ready components is to facilitate enhanced IVHM functionality in supplier-provided components that better meet the needs of end users and government regulators in a cost-effective manner. Underlying this motivation is the assumption that market forces will drive the need to achieve IVHM’s benefits, which will in turn drive new requirements that suppliers must ultimately meet. This recommended practice has two primary objectives: (1) to encourage the introduction of a much greater degree of IVHM functionality in future vehicles at a much lower cost, and (2) to address legitimate intellectual property concerns by providing recommended IVHM design-time and run-time data specification and information exchange alternatives in an effort to help unlock the potential of IVHM.