DAME will develop a generic test bed for Distributed diagnostics that will be built upon grid-enabled technologies and web services. The generic framework will be deployed in a proof of concept demonstrator in the context of maintenance applications for civil aerospace engines with major industrial partners Rolls Royce and DS&S.

The project builds on a key metropolitan grid infrastructure, the White Rose Computational Grid (WRCG), run between the partner institutions Leeds, Sheffield and York at a cost of 2.8M. The essential theme of this project is real-time intelligent feature extraction, intelligent data mining and decision support techniques, where expertise and software tools are distributed across the Grid. The enormity of the databases and the need for distributed access to the data make this a particularly challenging problem for the Grid.