Planning German Army Helicopter Maintenance and Mission Assignment

Abstract

German Army light helicopter transportation regiments operate 45 Bell UH-1D helicopters to support demanding missions throughout Europe. Maintenance period scheduling, major exercise and regular mission assignment decisions directly influence the readiness of the helicopter fleet. Currently, all planning is done manually, which is unstructured and time consuming. This thesis describes a decision support system designed to assist with maintenance planning and mission assignment. The yearly maintenance and event scheduling problem and the short term mission assignment tasks are formulated and solved as elastic mixed integer linear programs. Resulting yearly schedules and short term sortie plans are both generated in a fraction of the time previously required with solution quality superior to their manual counterparts. Helicopter, Maintenance planning, Mission assignment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA280483

Entities

People

  • Achim Sgaslik

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Maintenance
  • Aircrafts
  • Army Aircraft
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Helicopters
  • Information Systems
  • Linear Programming
  • Maintenance
  • Military Aircraft
  • Operations Research
  • Personal Computers
  • Scheduling (Production)

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.