Material Management Upgrade
Abstract
The Material Access Technology-Mission Funded (MATmf) system is used by all Naval Shipyards to manage and provide logistical support for services and materials manufactured, purchased and utilized in the overhaul, repair, and maintenance of ships and submarines. MATmf provides quantitative, financial, and status information on industrial materials. It monitors the shop stores in the shipyard and assesses the direct material inventories. The MATmf system has reached end-of-life and is operating on software components that are considered obsolete. A Service Life Extension is required to support the future capabilities (i.e. eTWD requirements), to correct sustainability issues, and to improve the ability to support current and future ships maintenance. While the upcoming MSE releases will consolidate application databases (including MATmf into a data center environment); it does not include material integration across shipyards nor provide usable real time material information or metrics across the ship maintenance community. The MSE releases will also not convert the outdated development code, eliminate the time cumbersome manual batch processing, nor fix a host of long term shortcomings affecting the efficiency of the system (including long time printing limitations affecting for Material Control Tags and waterfront performance). Over the past 5 years, NAVSEA 08 and the Corporate Material Process Action Team through multiple LEAN events has identified and documented many areas that need enhancements. Some of these include: 1) the ability to allow for Fiscal Year rollover of JMLs, 2) the ability to allow redistribution of bulk receipt inspected materials to other shipyards, 3) the ability to report transactions for BP28 assets, 4) improve the ability to create efficient processes for receipt of RFI tagged material into Shop Stores, 5) improve receipt of shipyard contracts into shipyard for receipt inspection, 6) allow DLR material in Shop Stores, 7) address transition to another handheld scanner as the current handhelds are no longer available for purchase. These deficiencies will be addressed in the Material Management Upgrade.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 294d911b1462daccdd0ac5c80983d6af