Bridging Design and Implementation for a More Practical Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM plus ) Solution

The U.S. Army uses a test platform termed the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) kit or system for the maintenance of their fleet of tactical wheeled vehicles (TWVs). This Army fleet consists of vehicles from numerous original equipment vehicle manufacturers utilizing varying technologies, depending upon the type and age of each particular vehicle platform. To ensure that the maintenance requirements of all of these vehicles are met, the ICE system combines the use of analog data with digital data, all accessed via the vehicle's data network(s). Users seeking access to these data utilize the ICE software, whose features range from simply monitoring vehicle parameters to running complex special tests that use data from multiple vehicle network/component sources. Following the implementation of this test platform, a wireless version of the internal combustion engine (WICE) kit was developed. © 2011 IEEE.