Aviation Diagnostics and Maintenance (ADAM) System Preliminary Concept of Operation and Functional Description

The Aviation Diagnostics and Maintenance (ADAM) System is an initiative to acquire, store, distribute, and use technical maintenance information for aircraft in a digitized, integrated, and task-oriented format. The initiative is consistent with DoD Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support (CALS) direction and provides tools for Statistical Process Control (SPC) under Total Quality Management (TQM) concepts. While oriented toward new technology aircraft, segments of the concept have applicability to the existing Naval Aviation inventory. ADAM consists of a maintenance system equipped with state of the art hardware/software through which complete, current and consistent data will be made automatically available in electronic format to all maintenance technicians and production managers, thereby improving maintenance performance and unit readiness with reduced Life Cycle Costs (LCC). The ADAM system incorporates expert system diagnostic techniques, which interface with the aircraft's Built In Test (BIT) data, to generate subsets of optimized maintenance task information for fault isolation and repair processes. This maintenance task information will be available to the technician on both workcenter display devices and on portable display devices which can be used at the work site.