ARMAN: A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING INHERENT CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE WORKLOAD TIMES: I. DESCRIPTION, EVALUATION, AND APPLICATION.
Abstract
Maintenance task time, considered as a dependent variable of electronics design concepts, is discussed in the context of an equipment's Inherent Corrective Maintenance Workload (ICMW). A heuristic computer program is described which relates equipment design attributes to perceptual-motor loadings of maintenance tasks, as measured by task times. The program, ARtificial Methods AN alyst (ARMAN), is a generalized work measurement procedure which has the capability of generating inherent maintenance task times from the physical configuration of the equipment and descriptions of maintenance task requirements. A validation study of ARMAN's time- and methods-generating capability is described. It was found that ARMAN times were not significantly different from the means of the human-generated times over a wide range of corrective maintenance tasks. An application of ARMAN is described where it is used in the comparative maintenance analysis of two technologically different radars; one based on conventional circuitry and the other on integrated microcircuitry. ARMAN demonstrated its efficiency and generality by very rapidly generating inherent corrective maintenance task times for both systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0482160
Entities
People
- Joseph W. Rigney
Organizations
- University of Southern California