Standards Related to Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) for Manufacturing

Prognostics and health management (PHM) technologies reduce burdensome maintenance tasks of products or processes through diagnostic and prognostic activities. These activities provide actionable information that enable intelligent decision‐making for improved performance, safety, reliability, and maintainability. However, standards for PHM system development, data collection and analysis techniques, data management, system training, and software interoperability appear to be partly lacking. The National Institute of Standards and Technology1 (NIST) conducted a survey of PHM‐related standards to determine the industries and needs addressed by such standards, the extent of these standards, and any similarities as well as potential gaps among the documents. Standards from various national and international organizations are summarized, including those from the Air Transport Association (ATA), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and the United States Army (US Army). Finally, recommendations are offered for the development of future PHM‐related standards.