Analysis of Work Order Priority Systems Used by Civil Engineering.
Abstract
This study examined six methods used by BCEs of major Air Force installations within the Continental United States to prioritize work orders: Checkbook, Engineering Judgment, Corporate Base Panel, Internal BCE Panel, Command Driven, and Weighting. Based on survey questionnaire responses, both an Air Force-wide profile and system specific profiles Checkbook system was used the most often. The study also identified several common features among the reported strengths of the six prioritizing methods. Based on analysis of the survey data, a pairwise comparison technique called the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was shown to be a useful aid for developing criteria to assess the relative worth of each work order to the goals and objectives set by the Installation Commander and his staff. BCEs using the Checkbook prioritizing method can use the AHP to develop a set of relative weights for criteria that can be used to allocate work orders among organizations. The AHP can also aid users of the other prioritizing methods by generating weighting coefficients for an automated scoring technique that can be used to generate a strawman prioritized work order list. Theses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA201629
Entities
People
- Stephen K. Lillemon
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology