Integrated intelligent fault diagnostics

Since the 1970s, awareness, interest, and emphasis in the testability discipline have been increasing. This discipline is an extension of system design, reliability assessment, and test engineering and is an increasingly important part of Integrated Product Development (IPD) teams. An integral part of an IPD team is the test designer, whose goal is to determine optimum test strategies. To be effective, the test designer must have automated tools and processes available for developing these strategies, which, when implemented, enable Program and Production Managers to control logistics costs directly attributable to maintenance. The purpose of this paper is to define the tools and processes designed by ARINC for optimizing diagnostic strategies.<>