November 15, 2008
The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDEC) has performed a Return on Investment (ROI) analysis of CDB as part of a non-recurring engineering/accelerated fielding effort; RDEC expects the ROI for CDB to be between 10 and 14 to 1.
Since March of 2007, RDEC has been following up the cost benefit analysis of Customized Dynamic Balancing on the AH-64 Apache Helicopter at US Army 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion in Raleigh, North Carolina. RDEC office UAS Team Lead, Kris Walker confirms that CDB has a great return on investment ratio in a short period of cost analysis. There are more than cost benefits to consider when analyzing CDB return on investment. The CDB analysis reports are also showing an increase in readiness, safety of the pilots, as well as generating data to help provide feet-wide visibility of maintenance status, due to early identification of maintenance requirements, which in some cases are urgent. CDB goes far beyond passively monitoring aircraft vibrations. CDB discerns the root cause of a particular platform's vibration related issues and provides a dynamic solution to significantly reduce high frequency resonant vibrations. This process uses CDB computer vibration analysis tools to gather requisite vibration information from instrumented drive train components. The CDB computer analyzes this data and creates an "Aircraft Vibration Profile" to determine the specific solution for the individual aircraft.
In order to create the positive dramatic effect of CDB, the technology provides for a different solution to every aircraft vibration profile. CDB takes an active approach to nearly eliminate the vibration in that it defines a vibration profile and uses the CDB proprietary technique to fix it!
Customized Dynamic Balancing requires no additional research or development and it is easy to implement to current maintenance processes. Our proprietary and unique technology can be modified to various rotary wing platforms, “we recommend to every rotary wing fleet owner or responsible personnel to take a hard look at the technology, its benefits and consider a teaming development with Shake'd Technologies, Inc.” says a Shake’d engineer.
Shake’d Technologies headquartered in New York City delivers advanced and unique capabilities to military and civilian major rotary wing aircraft programs in the United States, United Kingdom and other international customers. At Shake’d Technologies, we strive for unequivocal excellence in developing new ideas, cutting-edge technologies and solutions for the industry.
