A SAC B-52 Aircrew Scheduling Model Using ICAM's IDEF Methodology.
Abstract
This research analyzes the SAC B-52 flight aircrew training scheduling process as a system. Operational planning for aircrew resource use maintains an essential importance in the attainment of a unit's mission. Using operational requirements and maintenance capability, unit planners develop aircrew training schedules designed to assure mission-ready crews remain prepared to perform the wing's primary mission. The study reviews the aircrew scheduling system problem history as it evolved from an art to a science using a systems perspective. Numerous historical and recent attempts to computerizing the system also receive attention. Current Decision Support System (DSS) concepts plus the requirements for a data base and a data base management provide the overall research framework. Using Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) IDEF (ICAM Definition) modeling procedures, the authors depict the functions and their relationships of the B-52 aircrew planning system. This effort demonstrates IDEF as a usable modeling technique as a first step towards a complete computer-aided decision support system. Once a DSS exists for the unit under study, then command attention can focus on the adoption of successful procedures to other units and differing missions. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA123023
Entities
People
- John M. Moore
- Randall D. Whitmore
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology