Research Summaries

Back Augmenting the 5th Generation Maintenance Professional Phase 2

Fiscal Year 2019
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Computer Science
Investigator(s) Balogh, Imre L.
Sponsor Naval Air Systems Command (Navy)
Summary Background: Technological advances within the Department of Defense has strained the capacity and ability of traditional maintenance processes to ensure materiel readiness at an acceptable level. The technical manual has and is the communication workhorse connecting the engineer to the maintenance professional. While initially deployed in a pure paper format with its associated administrative tails, the technical manual has now transitioned into the electronic domain. Alleviating some administrative tasks associated with paper products, this transition has failed to address the increased complexity and change velocity of technology and its required maintenance actions. Based on thesis research, a team engaged MALS-11 with the intent to examine the potential for augmented reality (AR) to mitigate various known deficiencies in maintenance (error, time of execution, administrative burden). Representatives from Naval Postgraduate School, PMA-257, and NAWCAD S&T transition interviewed personnel. Observed procedure and investigated various aspects of Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Automated Support System (RTCASS). The collective assessment is that enough evidence of potential benefit exists to examine further an AR.
Keywords Augmented Reality Human Efficiency Human Precision Maintenance
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