ME 59700

Spring 2015
Systems Engineering, Part II
Session 18
12 March 2015
Mr. Larry Hopp, CPL
 Logistics & Maintenance Support
in the System Life Cycle
• Integrated entity
• One of the subsystems
• Support the system
• Support the life-cycle
• In the beginning……….
• Day to day participation

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Figure 15.10 Logistic support in the system life cycle (refer to Figure 2.2).

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 System Requirements
• Operational Requirements
• Maintenance Concept
• TPMs
• Performance Based Logistics

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 PBL
• Performance Based Logistics (also commonly
referred to as Performance Based Life Cycle Product
Support and PBL) is a performance-based product
support strategy for the development and
implementation of an integrated, affordable, product
support package designed to optimize system
readiness and meet the Warfighter’s requirements in
terms of performance outcomes for a weapon system
through long-term product support arrangements with
clear lines of authority and responsibility.

DAU 5
 PBL
• Lexington Institute paper – Dr. Daniel Goure
– Affordable, integrated package based on output
measures such as availability
– Private sector incentivized
• Reduce costs
• Increase availability

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 PBL
• Lexington Institute paper
– 25 years in commercial business
– Power by the hour
• Guarantee minimum number of flying hours for each
engine
– Replace faulty engine within specified time period
– Also used by Caterpillar, Honeywell, Rolls-Royce,
and Allison

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 PBL
• Lexington Institute paper
– Performance outcomes
• Decrease Delivery time
• Decrease Work-in-progress
• Reduce Turn-around times
• Increase Reliability
• Reduced logistics
• Increase Availability of systems
• Reduce overall cost

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 PBL
• Lexington Institute paper
– Secret to Success
– On time deliveries to the field
– Flow of accurate information
• Anticipate demand
• Identify and implement positive changes
• Provide alternative maintenance practices
– Incentive to have continuous improvement
– Reduces government personnel cost
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 PBL
• Lexington Institute paper
– How it works
• Fixed price for desired outcomes
• Buy results – Need the right parameters/metrics
• Provider makes more money when more efficient – self
motivated

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 PBL
• DLA PBL briefing
– Fixed price “pay for performance” contract
motivates vendor to reduce failures & consumption
– Long term commitment enables vendor to balance
risk vs. investment to attain a return on
investments in availability and reliability

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 PBL
• F/A-18 F404 Engine GE
– Pre PBL
• 43 % availability
• 718 backorders
– Post PBL
• 90% availability
• 0 backorders
• Contract value of $641M
• Cost savings of $90M

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 PBL
• Navy MH-60 Seahawk Helicopter,
Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin
– 1200 airframe and avionics components
– 530 aircraft
– Inventory accuracy of 99.91%
– Readiness is 92% from 66%
– Backorders from 800 to 0.
– Reduced Logistics Response time by 45 days
– Invested $140M to increase reliability
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Figure 15.11 Selected technical performance measures for the logistics and maintenance support infrastructure.
Source: B. S. Blanchard, Logistics Engineering and Management, 6th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2004), Figure 1.11.

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 Requirements Allocation
• How do you break the requirements down?
• Negotiate with other IPTs if to tight or to loose

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 Design Review and Evaluation
• Supportability Review Checklist
– Logistics functions adequately defined
– Supply chain functions been defined
– Systems maintenance concept
– Supportability analysis completed
• Supportability analysis support the maintenance concept
• Supportability analysis define all logistics requirements.
• Integrate different models
– Specific requirements been defined
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Figure 15.12 Supportability analysis (SA) and supplemental analyses.

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Initially influence the system design
– Conceptual design
• ID logistics and maintenance support resources
• Logistics Management Information (LMI)
• ID high cost/high risk areas

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Design Interface
– Design Analysis
• FMECA for each of the critical subsystems
– List system
– When will you update
– Issues
– Impact

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Design Interface
– Design Analysis
• Reliability Growth Plan
– List System
– Planned values
– Estimate at IOC
– Confidence Level
– How to mitigate any problems

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Design Interface
– Design Analysis
• Completed Supportability Trade Studies
– Trade name and date completed
– Lead IPT
– Options Analyzed
– Criteria used to evaluate costs and benefits
– Impact

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Design Interface
– Design Analysis
• Planned Supportability Trade Studies
– Trade name
– Lead IPT
– Timeframe
– Objective
– Options to be analyzed
– Criteria used to evaluate costs and benefits

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Sample Outline Aug 10, 2011
 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Design Interface
– Technical Reviews
• Schedule
• Participants
• Focus
• Criteria

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Sample Outline Aug 10, 2011
 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Product Support Element Determination
– Analysis Support methods and tools
• Processes addressed
• Schedule
• Tools
• Output produce
• Update timeframe

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Sustaining Engineering
– Monitoring tool
– Office of primary responsibility
– Metrics/Data monitored
– Feedback mechanism
– Review timeframe

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Other Possible Analysis
– Systems Engineering Functional Analysis
– FTA
– Reliability Block Diagrams
– Reliability Analysis and Prediction
– Maintainability Analysis and Prediction
– Maintenance Task Analysis
– Repair Level Analysis

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 Supportability Analysis (SA)
• Other Possible Analysis
– RCM
– Training System Requirements Analysis
– Analysis to determine best location/sources of
maintenance or support

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Figure 15.13 Development of logistics and maintenance support requirements through the supportability analysis.
Source: B. S. Blanchard, Logistics Engineering and Management, 6th ed.(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2004), Figure 5.6.

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Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458
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 Supportability Test & Evaluation
• Were the requirements met?
– Reliability qualification testing
– Maintainability demonstration
– Personnel Test and Evaluation
– Test and Support Equipment
– Logistics validation
• Some can be done during Type 2 and 3 testing.
• Complete validation during type 4 testing and during the
life cycle

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Figure 6.2 Stages of system test and evaluation during the life cycle.

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Figure 6.5 System evaluation and corrective action loop.

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Systems Engineering and Analysis, Fifth Edition
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458
Benjamin S. Blanchard • Wolter J. Fabrycky
All rights reserved.
 Assignments
• Enjoy Spring Break
• Tuesday 24 March
– CP3
• Thursday 26 March
– Homework Chapter 15
• Problems 7, 9, 15, 17, and 27 (some is 2)
• Tuesday 31 March
– Quiz #5 Chapter 15

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