Critical Need for Fault Detection in Transportation

For any public or private transportation vehicle, whether it be air, ground, or sea-based, electronic prognostics has the distinct ability to provide visibility of the health and remaining useful life (RUL) of critical systems and subsystems.

With recent high profile air and metro catastrophes, such as the Brazilian Air France flight tragedy and the Washington D.C. Metro crash, the need for implementation of electronic prognostics, to monitor critical electronic systems and subsystems that help run these vehicles and platforms, is growing exponentially.

As such, while Ridgetop Group’s electronic prognostic technologies have been developed with several factors in mind such as cost reduction, reliability improvement, and accurate prediction of impending failures, one factor stands paramount . . . safety.

Ridgetop has pioneered an expansive set of techniques and associated products that can provide dynamic visibility to maintenance, service, and operational personnel as to the health and remaining useful life (RUL) of critical electronic systems in a variety of applications.

For today’s aviation carriers, examples of such systems include electromechanical actuators, power supplies, electronic power units, flight control systems, and virtually any other flight critical on-board platform that requires sound operational integrity 100% of the time.

For rapid transit operators such as the San Francisco Bay Area’s BART or Washington D.C.'s Metro, examples include track sensors, train control systems, auxiliary power systems, and detection systems.

In addition, Ridgetop’s suite of non-invasive solutions are applicable to everyday automotive, bus, and virtually any other utilized transportation system.

With tens of millions of individuals using these systems on a daily basis, Ridgetop makes improving the safety and reliability of electronic systems easier than ever

Visit our website to find out more about how Ridgetop Group electronic prognostic solutions can benefit specific subsectors of the transportation industry.