Partner Profile

The vision for the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems is to enable products and systems to achieve and sustain near-zero breakdown performance, and ultimately transform the traditional maintenance practices from “fail and fix ” to “predict and prevent” methodology. The Center is focused on frontier technologies in embedded and remote monitoring, prognostics technologies, and intelligent decision support tools and has coined the trademarked Watchdog Agent® prognostics tools and Device-to-Business (D2B) infotronics platform for e-maintenance systems.

The PHM Group in the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland has a multi-faceted approach to PHM focused on demonstrating that health monitoring can be implemented using a variety of methodologies, tools, and analyzing techniques for effective prognostics.

General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), one of the world’s largest automakers, was founded in 1908, and today manufactures cars and trucks in 34 countries. With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 244,500 people in every major region of the world, and sells and services vehicles in some 140 countries. In 2008, GM sold 8.35 million cars and trucks globally under the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, HUMMER, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, Vauxhall and Wuling.

Impact Technologies is a high-tech engineering consulting and machinery health management system development firm that develops sensors, systems, and software that monitor, detect, isolate, predict equipment performance and degradation, and plan optimized maintenance schedules. We provide services to our customer to reduce risk, increase safety, improve readiness, and minimize equipment support costs.

PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox and an integral part of Xerox’s strategy for long-term research investment. Founded in 1970 as part of Xerox Research, PARC was incorporated in 2002 as an independent center for commercial innovation. Today, PARC is a center for commercial innovation. PARC works closely with clients to discover, test, and deliver new business opportunities.