Status of research and development on prognostics and health management in China

This paper summarizes the historical research and application on PHM in China, and presents current status including research on health monitoring and prognosis methods, development of reliability labs, the introduction of new organization-China PHM Society, and factors to drive PHM in China. Based on the previous works, some ideas of implementing PHM in China were presented. At last future work of PHM in China are suggested.