What if your car or home could tell you if something was wrong before anything broke? That's just what software designed by NASA does in many industrial applications. A major aircraft manufacturer saved nearly a million dollars in maintenance fees after it equipped one of its planes with a system health monitor derived from NASA technology.
The first version of what became a suite of system health management software was developed by NASA to monitor an experimental hybrid rocket engine test bed that ran on both gas and solid fuel. Traditionally, this would have been accomplished by building models and running simulations. But that process would have been expensive and time-consuming, so NASA developed a method for testing the concept using existing data from other rocket tests. The previous data helped the team establish baselines and parameters for normal system behavior, allowing them to more easily detect and address deviations from those norms.
Learn more about how NASA helped develop technology that impacts system health monitors within your city's manufacturing environment!