William Bryan

NASA Editor

How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

While physical inventory counts are a necessary evil, they don't need to be such a significant burden.

In 2012, CEMSol teamed up with Lockheed Martin to see if the company’s Integrated System Health Management software could predict failures of the bleed valve that switches air flow between engines on the C-130 Hercules (pictured here) during start-up. Lockheed Martin invested $70,000 in the test and recouped 10 times that amount in reduced maintenance costs and mission delays.

Machines Will Soon Tell You When They're Sick

In the future, machines will monitor their own health and request help, themselves, when something’s wrong.