Analysis of Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) Users Perspective towards Mission Benefits Using Regression Analysis

Mission benefits are seen as an important indicator of overall effectiveness of Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) implementation. This creates incentives for Army personnel at all levels to adopt CBM. The research approach presents a step in the direction of better understanding of how mission benefit areas like morale, sense of safety etc. are influenced by perspective of army personnel who fly and maintain Blackhawk, Kiowa, Chinook and Apache helicopters around the world equipped with Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS). The study also investigates if this attitude can be described by a linear regression model. Response data collected from seventy-six helicopter personnel was analyzed to determine whether regression analysis can describe the users’ attitude towards different aspects of benefits. When cross validation was performed, the multiple linear regression model was able to predict performance response with a correlation coefficient as high as 0.95.