AN APPLICATION OF NETWORK ANALYSIS TO THE DETERMINATION OF MINIMUM COST AIRCRAFT PIPELINE FACTORS,
Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to present a practical example of how operations research helped solve a logistic support problem. The emphasis is an application rather than on theory. An important budgeting problem in the U.S. naval aviation program is to determine the number of aircraft to procure so that a desired level of operating inventory of aircraft is maintained, given that some aircraft will not be operational as a result of certain maintenance procedures. The term 'pipeline' refers to aircraft unavailable to operating commands. Pipeline is defined to mean those aircraft tied up in Progressive Aircraft Rework (PAR), en route to and from PAR, and in Special Rework. PAR is a regularly scheduled maintenance action; Special Rework is depot maintenance involving unscheduled repairs and sometimes modifications. The operating inventory, then, is the number of aircraft not in the pipeline, and the pipeline planning factor is the ratio of pipeline aircraft (aircraft unavailable) to the desired operating inventory (aircraft available). (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0703536
Entities
People
- Richmond Lloyd
- S. Scott Sutton
Organizations
- Center for Naval Analyses