FE Associates, then known as Syncretek LLC, was awarded a Navy Phase I SBIR contract in 2006. The technology developed under the contract, the Automatic Repair Planning and Part Archival System (ARPPAS), features the following capabilities:

• A graphical user interface that allows user selection of part ID, presents an engineering drawing of the part to the user, allows for selection of approved repair materials, provides a means for user definition and submission of needed engineering data, triggers user-initiated automatic analysis database record keeping, and returns results of the engineering analysis to the user,
• An integrated, distributed computing capability that incorporated automatic record keeping and engineering analysis of the repair based on the user-selected data,
• An advanced finite element model that incorporates user-provided repair information in a generic Patran database, thereby generating a new Patran database uniquely associated with the particulars of that repair instance, and then analyzes the model using multiple load cases
• A relational database that stores reference information, stores references to the specific analysis instances associated with a particular repair, and stores related information
• A data archive that digitally stores the associated relational databases, Patran databases, and other needed information

U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Eric A. Clement