Efficient Integrated Reliability and Maintainability in a Digital Engineering Environment as Part of the Army Transformation Initiative

Abstract

This paper presents an efficiently structured and integrated Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) process for implementation in a Digital Engineering (DE) environment during the product design phase, in support of the Army Transformation Initiative. This process links key R&M tasks to influence their execution and clarifies the relationship between a system's design risk and its R&M performance. The significant contributions of this process are: 1) establishing intra- and inter-task linkages for R&M activities within a comprehensive, systemic design process; 2) defining the direct impact on component and system-level R&M as a function of strategic design risk mitigation activities through a central Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA); and 3) executing R&M tasks within a fully integrated, closed-loop R&M modeling and risk assessment approach, supported by a DE and AI-enabled environment.