SuperHUMS sees anomalies
Intelligent Automation Corp.

Intelligent Automation Corp. (IAC) launched its so-called SuperHUMS (health and usage monitoring system) here at Heli-Expo (Booth No. 1032).

With about 200 installations on commercial Bell helicopters and hundreds more on military rotorcraft, Intelligent Automation’s HUMS units “are not flying spectrum analyzers” explained William Lawler, Intelligent Automation cofounder and vice president of sales and marketing, “they’re a machinery diagnostic tool.”
Instead of simply recording data from many sensors at a high sample rate, which provides a huge amount of data, Intelligent Automation focuses on storing data for abnormal or out-of-parameter events that are key to analyzing maintenance and condition problems. “Nonnormal is what’s interesting,” said Lawler.