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The Prognostic Framework is a system-level health management system that receives inputs from performance monitoring, built-in tests (BIT), sensors, and prognostic mechanisms; processes that data to derive diagnostic and prognostic indications; relates status conditions to the ability to perform specific missions; and relates health and status to required maintenance actions and resources.

• The Prognostics Framework is a generic tool set that can be applied to any system to develop a health management capability.
• The Prognostic Framework is an expansion of Giordano Automation’s Model-Based Diagnostic Reasoning tools, the Diagnostic Profiler and Diagnostician, to include:
• Input of raw sensor values, parametric test results, and tolerances (ranges of acceptable limits)
• Methods to implement prognostic reasoning:
• Degradation of signals / measurements over time
• Historical conclusions / statistics
• Engineering correlations
• Integration of advanced, item-specific prognostic mechanisms (e.g., artificial neural networks, etc.)
• Ability to perform reasoning based upon future time periods to provide prognostics
• Tie-in of mission implications of failures: relating subsystems to functions to mission capability such that anticipated or actual failures can be represented in terms of the ability to perform a mission over specific time periods.

• Product will be licensed as "Prognostics Framework"; target market is any complex system that health and status are critical to successful operations, including military, aerospace, industrial and commercial systems.
• High degree of interest to date from the military aerospace market. Several application programs have been initiated by government agencies and prime contractor developers.
• US Army Technology Carrier 2, Viking Gun Mount System

• US Army Logistics Integration Agency (LIA) Weapon System Support Platform-Based Readiness Program (WSSPR) Demonstration for M1A1 Abrams Tank.
• US Army Technology Carrier 2, Viking Gun Mount System
• Aeptech Corp., US Navy Shipboard Monitoring System

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