Under a just lately accredited Naval Sea Systems Command contract, Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) is to deploy its FM OnBoard expertise to be used on Navy ships. The NAVSEA contract authorizes validation of FM OnBoard’s mission readiness by implementing its anomaly detection system for the Fairbanks Morse Defense engine. The system will run in concurrence with endurance testing of the engine EFI retrofit.
“Through our commitment to equipping the U.S. fleet with the latest in technological innovation and strategic solutions, like our FM OnBoard remote collaboration and asset monitoring tool, Fairbanks Morse Defense is revolutionizing technology solutions for maritime defenses,” stated FMD CEO George Whittier. “Technicians can instantly leverage remote expertise from anywhere in the world, which reduces costs and ensures that crews are always mission ready.”
FM OnBoard presents hands-free, intuitive instruments and technical directions in an augmented workforce setting to extend operational availability, enhance first-time repair charges and scale back the time to restore, leveraging the capabilities of extremely skilled personnel for coaching and technical help throughout the globe. The expertise’s distant video collaboration permits onsite customers to interact straight with a reside, offsite FMD service advisor utilizing party-to-party video conferencing seen by means of mixed-reality headsets. Through the usage of a digital twin that emulates the present state of an asset in actual time, technicians can work together and monitor native property and detect anomalies.
FM OnBoard is amongst a rising variety of options developed at FMD’s Technology Center of Excellence, which consolidates all of FMD’s rising applied sciences into one platform, together with synthetic intelligence (AI), digital defenses, SMART engineering options, and uncrewed mission administration.
FMD, a portfolio firm of Arcline Investment Management, has spent the final two years buying corporations and increasing its capabilities to supply services and products for your entire ship.