An Analysis of the Joint Strike Fighter Autonomic Logistics System
Abstract
Traditionally in the Navy/Marine Corps, in an effort to be proactive and prevent failures, maintenance and inspections are performed at fixed intervals independent of aircraft status. The current preventive maintenance strategy services and replaces certain components on a predetermined schedule. Additionally, the current Navy/Marine Corps aircraft repair process is reactive. When failures occur, the logistics system - maintenance and supply - respond. The Joint Strike Fighter Autonomic Logistics System (ALS) is proposed to be better then the logistic system in place. Under the ALS maintenance is performed only as needed. The idea is to decrease the logistics infrastructure and simultaneously improve logistics performance, by performing maintenance only as needed. Additionally, parts are ordered autonomously without human intervention. The logistic system prepares for an independent failure. In this thesis simulation are developed to compare the traditional repair system and the ALS. An analysis is conducted to show differences in performance in respect to aircraft availability, failures per mission and maintenance-man-hour-per-flight-hour.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA457174
Entities
People
- Anastasios Tsoutis
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School