Intercept develops a concept for a single unified Strategic Corrosion Management Program for Australia's Defence Force airborne weapon systems.
Intercept makes its global launch at the Singapore Air Show. Delegates from leading aerospace and aviation sectors welcome Intercept's innovative corrosion management practices.
The MPSPO CRCM Program was designed on the same program applied to its sister aircraft the C-130J-30, however significant improvements were made in its application and selection of CMEA locations. The MPSPO CRCM Program was designed to manage corrosion in a proactive manner, rather than relying on the ad-hoc and reactivce methods employed by the RAAF. Intercept developed a new series of preventative maintenance inspections what would detect and maange the precursors signs of corrosion rather than reacting to the corrosion damage itself. Rigourous testing on the CMEAs developed for the AP-3C fleet showed that they would not add any addtional maintenance burden onto the operating squandron or through life support staff during routine maintenannce inspections.
Intercept's CRCM Programs provided an opporuntiy for MPSPO to integrate potential failure mode inspections at scientifically calculated fixed inspection periods across the entire AP-3C at the appropriately related inspection level. The MPSPO CRCM Program also had the added advantage of being able to balance some of the operational, engineering and fiscal ascepts of the AP-3C's preventative maintenance (PM) program. A properly balanced PM program on the AP-3C will help to reduce the amount of out-of-service hours for scheduled maintenance, assisting the Australian Defence Force to achieve its cost-wise readiness goals.
Due to time constraints, Phase I of the MPSPO CRCM Program developed at total of 12 CMEA inspection packages, even though a total of 120 predictive corrosion zones were located by Intercept analysts.
A further 20 Global Static Control Points (GSCP) were developed over the aircraft to supplement to corrosion data collected from the CMEA inspection packages. Intercept is again leading the avaiation world by developing these GSCP to monitor and manage environmental conditions at selected sites around the aircraft.