Patent ID: 8346700

Claim:
A health monitoring system for a vehicle system, the health monitoring system comprising an operational support system comprising: an architecture stored in memory, the architecture comprising: a plurality of managers, each of the plurality of managers corresponding to a different sub-system of the vehicle system and configured to at least facilitate generating manager output pertaining to the sub-system based at least in part on an intermediate output, each of the plurality of managers comprising a plurality of reasoners, each of the plurality of reasoners corresponding to a different component of the sub-system, each of the plurality of reasoners comprising: a plurality of modules, each of the plurality of modules configured to at least facilitate obtaining data regarding a different aspect of the component and generating a preliminary output based at least in part on the data; and a reasoner fusion block coupled to the plurality of modules, the reasoner fusion block configured to at least facilitate receiving the preliminary output and generating the intermediate output based at least in part on the preliminary output; a plurality of enterprises including each of the following: a reliability and maintenance enterprise, a repair and overhaul enterprise, a finance enterprise, a logistics enterprise, and a technical manual database enterprise, each of the plurality of enterprises configured to generate an enterprise output; and a decision support module coupled to the plurality of managers, the decision support module configured to at least facilitate: receiving the manager output from the plurality of managers and the enterprise output from the plurality of enterprises; and providing a decision support output based at least in part on the manager output and the enterprise output; and a processor configured to implement the architecture.