Aircraft Sustainability Model Version 1.5: Users Manual

Abstract

The Aircraft Sustainability Model (ASM) is an item-specific inventory model that relates investments for spares to aircraft sortie generation capability during a conflict. An important advantage of the ASM is its ability to produce an entire curve relating a wide range of investment levels to the resulting sortie generation capability, allowing Air Force planners to trade off spares investment and capability. Moreover, the algorithm that builds the curve explicitly trades off investment in line replaceable units installed directly on aircraft versus their constituent shop replaceable unit subassemblies. These features, together with the computational efficiency of the code, have led to rapid acceptance of the ASM within the Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC). AFLC is now incorporating the ASM into the Requirements Execution Availability Logistics Module (REALM) of the Weapon System Management Information System (WSMIS). The ASM is being used in WSMIS/REALM to compute item requirements and to execute the Air Force budget for the reparable spares portion of War Reserve Materiel (WRM). This users manual explains the use of the PC-version of the ASM, Version 1.5.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA207015

Entities

People

  • Frank L. Eichorn

Organizations

  • LMI

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Budgets
  • Cannibalization
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Systems
  • Instructions
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Management Information Systems
  • Mathematics
  • Personal Computers
  • Procurement
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.