FIELD SERVICE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS COMPANY QUALTECH SYSTEMS SHARES INTERNATIONAL AVIATION MAINTENANCE AWARD

 

WETHERSFIELD, CT (June 20, 2006) An intelligent field service maintenance support solution for aircraft designed by Qualtech Systems, Inc. to reduce the time and cost needed to maintain military helicopters is a key element to a successful program recently recognized by the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International.

AHS – the world's premier professional vertical flight society – presented its 2006 Harry T. Jensen Award to a team of U.S. military units and private contractors including Qualtech Systems, Sikorsky Aircraft and Goodrich Aerospace in recognition of the group’s development of far-reaching capabilities to operational aircraft equipped with Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS). 

The maintenance support solution developed under the JAHUMS program leverages Qualtech Systems’ TEAMS® solutions for health monitoring, diagnostic inference, and optimized troubleshooting.  This highly accurate, integrated solution incorporates observations onboard (during flight) and data into a reasoning system that details maintenance instructions to ground crews.  Better lead time to act and first time fix rates are achieved while mean time to repair (MTTR) is reduced, all resulting in increased helicopter uptime.

“This award is a true testimony of the innovative and industrial strength solutions offered by the members of this team” said Qualtech Systems’ President Chuck Vallurupalli.

AHS presents the Harry T. Jensen Award each year in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the improvement of helicopter reliability, maintainability or safety through improved design or technical achievement.

Also honored for their participation in the JAHUMS Program were Draper Labs, Computer Sciences Corp., and OuterLink.  The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWC-CD), and the Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) jointly managed the program. 

Since its inception in 1944, AHS has been a major force in the advancement of a global rotorcraft industry, marked by rapid technical developments, expanding military capabilities, and commercial applications.

Harry T. Jensen, for whom the award is named, was responsible for the initial design for such well-known helicopters as the Black Hawk and Super Stallion.  He retired in 1978 as vice president for engineering at Sikorsky. Previous Harry T. Jensen Award winners include Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

 

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