WEBVTT 00:01.435 --> 00:04.185 (luminous music) 00:12.100 --> 00:14.140 - You're an aircraft pilot pulling Gs 00:14.140 --> 00:16.020 at 15,000 feet in altitude. 00:16.020 --> 00:18.480 All of a sudden your radar blinks and then it comes back 00:18.480 --> 00:20.080 and it blinks again, and you're trying to figure out 00:20.080 --> 00:20.980 what the problem is. 00:20.980 --> 00:23.380 This is the problem we're addressing with IFDIS. 00:24.500 --> 00:27.260 IFDIS, the Intermittent Fault Detection Isolation System, 00:27.260 --> 00:31.630 solves a very important and key part of the supply chain, 00:31.630 --> 00:33.320 keeping weapons systems up in the air. 00:33.320 --> 00:36.250 ^Total Quality Systems found that there was a gap 00:36.280 --> 00:40.030 ^in the testability of these line-replaceable units 00:40.030 --> 00:41.130 coming off of aircraft 00:41.360 --> 00:43.170 that provide key functions to the aircraft. 00:43.170 --> 00:45.240 The automatic test equipment would test 00:45.240 --> 00:46.920 certain functions of an LRU 00:47.220 --> 00:49.770 but certainly not test all functions within an LRU. 00:50.270 --> 00:53.190 What they could not do before was test 00:53.190 --> 00:56.290 in an operational environment all the issues, 00:56.290 --> 00:58.084 the connections, the broken wires, 00:58.084 --> 01:01.440 the fractured solder joints, within the chassis. 01:01.470 --> 01:04.260 Within the cellular cell of 8400 circuits 01:04.260 --> 01:05.460 that have to be checked, 01:05.600 --> 01:07.720 it's almost impossible to do that manually. 01:07.720 --> 01:09.430 IFDIS now provides the capability 01:09.430 --> 01:10.890 to fill that critical gap. 01:11.180 --> 01:13.780 One thing that people need to understand about IFDIS 01:13.980 --> 01:15.560 is that it is extremely unique. 01:15.560 --> 01:17.270 No-one's approached it this way. 01:17.460 --> 01:18.890 Again, the key point of this is 01:18.890 --> 01:21.220 that you're monitoring every single circuit 01:21.430 --> 01:23.970 within the chassis, every single moment, 01:23.970 --> 01:26.280 down to a 15 nanosecond period of time 01:26.670 --> 01:29.180 while shaking that LRU chassis. 01:29.590 --> 01:31.820 Bringing it out in the operational environment 01:31.820 --> 01:33.300 to find out intermittence that causes 01:33.300 --> 01:34.900 pilots' problems up in the air, 01:35.100 --> 01:36.910 enable you to replicate those on the ground 01:36.910 --> 01:40.920 and then find them, then isolate them to a specific point, 01:40.920 --> 01:43.580 take that to the depot for repair, 01:43.770 --> 01:45.590 which is actually just a very easy repair, 01:45.590 --> 01:48.710 a new wire wrap, a new solder joint, a new connector. 01:49.110 --> 01:50.210 Those simple things that were 01:50.210 --> 01:52.250 almost impossible to find in the past 01:52.460 --> 01:54.010 have now been found with IFDIS. 01:54.020 --> 01:56.450 The original small business innovative research project 01:56.450 --> 01:58.120 that was funded by the US Air Force, 01:58.120 --> 01:59.780 Current Flow Through UUT, 01:59.780 --> 02:03.690 began taking the idea of IFDIS and making something of it. 02:03.910 --> 02:06.030 We now have multiple phase III 02:06.040 --> 02:08.740 small business innovative research projects underway, 02:08.960 --> 02:11.720 supporting the DOD by developing and delivering 02:11.750 --> 02:13.380 these IFDIS to those customers. 02:13.640 --> 02:16.420 Small business innovative research money 02:16.620 --> 02:19.290 coming from the air force from the DOD to fund these 02:19.330 --> 02:22.170 was essential to help a small business 02:22.430 --> 02:24.250 reach up to the capability and capacity 02:24.250 --> 02:25.780 to actually deliver this IFDIS machine 02:25.780 --> 02:27.230 to the Department of Defense. 02:27.580 --> 02:31.270 Total Quality Systems and providing this system to the DOD 02:31.270 --> 02:33.610 has been recognized several times. 02:33.610 --> 02:34.950 In 2011, we awarded 02:34.950 --> 02:37.260 the Small Business Administration's Tibbetts Award 02:37.260 --> 02:39.110 all because of what we've done with IFDIS here 02:39.110 --> 02:40.560 and delivering it to the DOD. 02:40.560 --> 02:43.250 Total Quality Systems will continue to pursue 02:43.250 --> 02:45.490 the small business innovative research projects 02:45.490 --> 02:46.980 in the air force especially. 02:47.390 --> 02:49.240 IFDIS is one example that came to phase III 02:49.240 --> 02:50.390 that we've now fielded, 02:50.730 --> 02:54.150 but we feel we have much more to offer the DOD 02:54.820 --> 02:55.840 than just the IFDIS. 02:55.840 --> 02:58.910 Even though IFDIS is a huge game changer for the air force, 02:59.090 --> 03:01.690 we believe we still have more ideas, 03:01.690 --> 03:03.780 very innovative and creative ideas, 03:03.880 --> 03:07.140 that can fill additional critical gaps and capabilities, 03:07.340 --> 03:11.090 both operationally, at the depot, and all levels of repair. 03:11.510 --> 03:14.093 (upbeat music)