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In recent years, a better approach toward battlefield maintenance has
emerged, which utilizes Line Replaceable Modules (LRM) to speed, simplify
and significantly lower the cost of system repair. At Curtiss-Wright
Controls Embedded Computing, we're helping to drive the move toward LRM
maintenance through our leadership role in bringing rugged, ESD
(electro-static discharge)-protected VPX modules to the embedded COTS
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The innovative LRM approach promises to greatly reduce the logistics
burden by removing and replacing modules such as pluggable processing
and I/O boards directly at the platform; this eliminates the traditional
step of first removing the system-level "black box" and sending it back
to a depot for the eventual replacement of a pluggable circuit board. By
designing a system around the concept of LRMs, and holding spares at the
LRM level instead of at the box level, the cost, volume, and weight of
spares holdings can be reduced. |
