Analysis of Operational Readiness Rates.

Abstract

The following report documents an investigation of operational readiness (OR) rates performed by the Department of Systems Engineering's Operations Research Center (ORCEN) at the United States Military Academy during academic year 1997-1998. The report is organized into three major areas. The first area provides a historical review of the evolution of OR rates. In this section we determined how and why the current FMC standards/goals are 90% for all equipment other than aircraft and 75% for aircraft. The second area of the report is an analysis of 24 months of OR reports for the M9 ACE, MIAl, and CH-47D. The objective of our data analysis was to understand what effect, if any, that several previously unconsidered variables have on a unit's ability to meet the current FMC goals. Through our historical review and data analysis, we identified an appropriate method to establish OR standards for reportable equipment. We recommend using a quality control paradigm to establish equipment serviceability standards based on the historical mean and subsequent levels defined by the number of standard deviations away from the mean. We propose that these standards should be established as a function of equipment type and the potential for deployment of the unit that the equipment is assigned. The third major area of the report provides an investigation of the current Equipment Serviceability (ES) evaluation system used in the Unit Status Report (USR). We developed four potential alternative ES evaluation systems incorporating our proposed methodology for establishing ES standards. Finally, we identified the alternative system that best satisfies the objective of the ES evaluation system, which is to serve as an indicator of how well a unit is maintaining its on-hand equipment (AR 220-1, Sep. 97, 6-1).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA361030

Entities

People

  • James L. Kays
  • Mark M. Lee
  • William B. Carlton
  • William L. Ratliff Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Computer Programming
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Economic Forecasting
  • Engineering
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Operational Readiness
  • Operations Research
  • Regression Analysis
  • United States Military Academy

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  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Environmental Remediation and Restoration.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.