Statistical Process Control: An Application in Aircraft Maintenance Management

Abstract

Maintenance management at the 135th Airlift Wing, Maryland Air National Guard desires a visualization tool for their maintenance performance metrics. Currently they monitor their metrics via an electronic spreadsheet. They desire a tool that presents the performance information in a graphical manner. This thesis effort focuses on the development of a visualization tool utilizing two of the seven tools offered by Statistical Process Control (SPC). This research demonstrates the application of p-charts and Pareto diagrams in the aircraft maintenance arena. P-charts are used for displaying mission capable (MC) rates and flying scheduling effectiveness (FSE) rates. Pareto diagrams are then used to highlight which aircraft subsystems are affecting those two performance indicators.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA413139

Entities

People

  • Bradley A. Beabout

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air National Guard
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Maintenance
  • Aircrafts
  • Attrition
  • Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Management Personnel
  • National Guard
  • Organizational Structure
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Statistical Processes
  • United States

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems