Calibration Laboratories as a Regional Repair Center: Consolidate or Collocate?

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the integration of AIMDs Miramar and North Island, and NADEP North Island calibration laboratories. The expected benefits and weaknesses or problems resulting from integration are examined. The benefits analyzed include those in the areas of manpower, training, standards reduction, inventory reduction, streamlining facilities, and increased productivity. The problems analyzed include increased transportation costs, facilities modification costs, reduced military resiliency, potential negative impact on customer service, and issues related to sea/shore rotation, AIS, and the internal chain of command. The thesis also discusses Navy organizational structure and financial management policy, and the aspects of each that make it difficult to implement change. The thesis concludes that consolidation is feasible and there are scale economies to be achieved from consolidating the Intermediate and Depot level calibration laboratories at NAS North Island. However, the financial management and command and control issues must be solved before the benefits of Regional Maintenance can be realized.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA326507

Entities

People

  • John E. Pasch
  • Marquita A. Mitchell

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Manpower Utilization
  • Military Science
  • National Governments
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Seismology

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control