equipmentLinks has its roots in the operations and maintenance of industrial equipment. Owner Desi Dundics, a US Naval Academy graduate certified as Chief Engineer of naval nuclear power plants, was instrumental in the US Navy’s development of a shipboard integrated condition assessment system. This system was an advanced monitoring and diagnostic system which would alert operators and maintainers of equipment degradation prior to failure, and was implemented on all new ships that were part of the navy’s “smart ship” program.

In 1998, equipmentLinks was awarded a contract with a major US based oil and gas transmission company that would help set the future of their reliability and maintenance service programs. Their process of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) was enhanced to include a new and unique risk consequence matrix that allows rapid implementation of RCM for large, multi-site organizations. Within one year, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation had rolled out this new process to 140 compressor stations over a network of over 12,500 miles of natural gas pipeline with 175 RCM-trained maintenance personnel.

In 2000, equipmentLinks started to implement their reliability and maintenance processes throughout NASA. Spearheaded by individuals at NASA headquarters, RCM and Predictive Test & Inspection technologies were integrated into standard practice throughout the agency’s infrastructure and critical facilities. RCM software was used for projects at Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Glenn Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network of Antennas. The next year, equipmentLinks was involved in a condition assessment program that rated and inspected every physical asset operated and maintained by NASA.

In 2004, equipmentLinks was the “maintenance coach” for NASA’s Near Earth Networks System, which operated and maintained a world-wide system of 100+ antennas and other major assets. This equipment is used to track space shuttle launch and recovery programs, as well a large variety of other critical mission operations. This project enabled the migration to a total “Asset Management” oriented company which promoted the integration of all world-class practices associated with reliability and maintenance into their accompanying software.