Implementation of prognostics and health management in South Korean defense systems

As an advanced reliability -estimation concept , prognostics and health management (PHM) has been widely used to estimate the remaining useful life of individual systems, especially those embedded in U.S. military applications . However, there have as yet been no specific attempts to apply PHM or another advanced reliability-estimation methods to South Korea’s defense systems. We herein examine a feasible application to improve the reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) of defense system performance , mainly through simulation-study-based comparison of South Korean and United States reliability-estimation technologies and strateg ies. We then provide a long-term - perspective roadmap for the introduc tion of PHM to South Korea’s defense systems. In particular, it is expected that availability improvement in South Korean defense system s can be achieved through accurate residual - life prediction by introducing PHM to defense system operation .