Autonomous Sustainment: OPTRIX AI for Predictive Maintenance and Agentic Root Cause Analysis

CBM+

Problem Statement: DoD sustainment relies on reactive or time-based maintenance, leading to high costs, excessive cycle times, and low materiel readiness. Post-failure diagnostics demand specialized technical expertise, creating a significant manpower constraint across the Organic Industrial Base (OIB) and field commands. Transforming sustainment requires an autonomous, high-confidence solution to minimize downtime and efficiently augment the workforce.

Description of the Innovation Solution: OPTRIX AI is a no-code Agentic AI Platform delivering autonomous, end-to-end Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+). The platform allows maintenance personnel – not data scientists – to rapidly deploy specialized AI Agents that monitor assets from any source (PLC, SCADA, CMMS, sensors). Core to its reliability is the Domain-Grounded Knowledge Model, which enforces guardrails, grounding predictions in engineering specifications. This ensures high-confidence, non-biased recommendations. OPTRIX AI provides real-time Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) to predict degradation, automatically executing a Root Cause Analysis (RCA), isolating the failing component, and prescribing precise maintenance action.

Benefits to the DoD: OPTRIX AI directly supports DoD goals for agile, effective, and affordable maintenance:

• Increased Materiel Readiness: Predicts critical failures weeks in advance, minimizing unscheduled downtime and enabling high availability (e.g., demonstrated).
• Reduced Cost & Cycle Time: Delivers actionable maintenance plans, including part number, time, and estimated cost (e.g., ‘Part: DMTC #98765-ABC’), eliminating costly diagnostic labor.
• Manpower Augmentation: The Automated RCA leverages the Knowledge Model to embed expert knowledge, augmenting technician skills and allowing focus on complex repairs over troubleshooting.

Innovation Challenges: Interoperability with disparate Operational Technology (OT) and enterprise systems is a key CBM+ challenge. OPTRIX AI solves this with its no-code architecture, allowing non-expert users to rapidly build and deploy custom data connectors and AI agents, cutting time-to-value. User trust in autonomous AI is mitigated by the Domain-Grounded Knowledge Model, which provides transparent, auditable predictions with high confidence (for root causes), guaranteeing alignment with established engineering standards and practical maintenance needs.

Technical Maturity/Demonstration Results: Technical Readiness Level (TRL): TRL 8 (System fully qualified and demonstrated in mission-relevant environment). OPTRIX AI is a commercially deployed, operational platform managing complex logistics equipment in high-throughput OIB/DoD-equivalent environments. The demonstration shows successful anomaly detection, automated Root Cause Analysis, and prescription of the exact solution. This proven performance confirms its feasibility and practicality for immediate transition into DoD maintenance activities.