Managing Life-Cycle Information of Aircraft Components

Abstract

When an aircraft component needs replacement of a serially controlled item, a maintenance officer in the U.S. Navy uses the Scheduled Removal Component (SRC) card to confirm the component's life cycle, to verify that the part is ready-for-issue, and to verify how many flight-hours it still has left. Unfortunately, replacement components are often missing the SRC cards. Further,when the cards are received simultaneously with the aircraft component requiring replacement, their encoded data are unreliable, which then precludes the part from being immediately installed. In this article, the authors analyze the impact of current paper-based life-cycle management of serially controlled parts, and investigate item-unique identification and radio-frequency identification technologies as alternative ways of tracking these parts to increase operational availability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA563710

Entities

People

  • Aruna U. Apte
  • Geraldo Ferrer

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Control Systems
  • Identification
  • Information Systems
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Aircraft
  • Radio Frequency
  • Supply Chain
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Molecular Genetics