Research on Testability Design and Evaluation Method for Ship Electromechanical Equipment

Abstract As a relatively large amount of electromechanical equipment was installed in the ship systems, it was difficult to position and eliminate the faults of the M&E equipment if any. Hence, there was a need to improve the fault detection and isolation capabilities of the equipment depending on testability design and to develop the corresponding fault diagnosis system when necessary, thus improving the overall availability of the equipment and ensuring that the ship could successfully complete the missions. In view of the above requirements, this paper, taking the most representative M&E equipment - pump set on the ship as a research object, gave the testability design process of the M&E equipment - pump set for product development, illustrated the equipment testability design methods from 4 aspects (namely determination of equipment testability and fault diagnosis system requirements, testability analysis & design, comprehensive fault diagnosis system design and testability verification process design), specified the testability design & monitoring object selection principles and fault characteristic determination methods, and finally provided the testability design evaluation methods for the M&E equipment for verifying whether the testability requirements were met.