Reliability & Maintainability Hitlist Bad Actor Tool (HITBAT)
Abstract
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC) has the responsibility to manage the logistics of many major Air Force weapon systems currently in inventory. Not only does this require the traditional function of logistics management, but also the engineering effort required to maintain this inventory in a current, state-of-the-art, war-ready status. In order to identify items with less than desirable performance, a Materiel Management Operating Instruction (MMOI) was written to outline a process using product teams. The teams consist of the lead non-supervisory individuals from each functional area working together as a group to identify and plan corrective actions for reliability and maintainability (R&M) deficiencies in their assigned equipment. The Hitlist Bad Actor Tool (HITBAT) evolved to assist the product teams in this effort. The primary requirement was to place all the information into a database to eliminate any redundant entries and provide for standardized input and output. The tool required the capability to display the information in logical form on a computer screen and be easily modified during the product team meetings. A system needed to be devised to allow all the teams in Directorate of Materiel Management (MM) to work concurrently and then output as a single database. The solution to the problem, offered by HITBAT, is a personal computer (PC) database. It not only prints out four data pages of the R&M Action Plan and the R&M Hitlist, but displays to the screen interacting input forms which act like spreadsheets to compute and display information. The tool installs itself on a PC and brings up the first menu. There are four menus which guide the user through the process. The output can be either collected and stored on diskettes, left on the hard drive of the computer, or stored on a VAX supporting Kermit protocol. All of the operations mentioned are accomplished by menu selection.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA578187
Entities
People
- Wayne Bassett