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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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This dissertation explores the goals and objectives, competitive edges, performance criteria, and system constraints of a selected group of depot maintenance organizations in the Air Force Logistics Command's (AFLC's) aircraft repair depots. Through interviews of managers at the directorate, division, branch, and first-line supervision levels, the selected organizations were asked to identify the competitive edges on which they compete. The organizations were then studied at the directorate, division, and branch levels to determine how performance on the critical competitive edges is measured and to identify the constraints that prevent the depots from achieving their objectives. The results of this research were: (1) The development of guidelines concerning AFLC goals and depot objectives, competitive edges, performance criteria, and system constraints; and (2) A prescriptive depot maintenance performance model showing the desired relationships among proposed depot objectives, critical competitive edges identified by AFLC managers (quality, cost, and delivery), proposed performance criteria, and current system constraints. Due to the exploratory nature of this research, a case study methodology was employed. Aircraft Maintenance, Competitive Edges, Depot Maintenance, Performance Measurement Systems, System Constraints, Theory of Constraints.
An Analysis of Performance Measurements Systems in the Air Force Logistics Command's Aircraft Repair Depots
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This dissertation explores the goals and objectives, competitive edges, performance criteria, and system constraints of a selected group of depot maintenance organizations in the Air Force Logistics Command's (AFLC's) aircraft repair depots. Through interviews of managers at the directorate, division, branch, and first-line supervision levels, the selected organizations were asked to identify the competitive edges on which they compete. The organizations were then studied at the directorate, division, and branch levels to determine how performance on the critical competitive edges is measured and to identify the constraints that prevent the depots from achieving their objectives. The results of this research were: (1) The development of guidelines concerning AFLC goals and depot objectives, competitive edges, performance criteria, and system constraints; and (2) A prescriptive depot maintenance performance model showing the desired relationships among proposed depot objectives, critical competitive edges identified by AFLC managers (quality, cost, and delivery), proposed performance criteria, and current system constraints. Due to the exploratory nature of this research, a case study methodology was employed. Aircraft Maintenance, Competitive Edges, Depot Maintenance, Performance Measurement Systems, System Constraints, Theory of Constraints.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This dissertation explores the goals and objectives, competitive edges, performance criteria, and system constraints of a selected group of depot maintenance organizations in the Air Force Logistics Command's (AFLC's) aircraft repair depots. Through interviews of managers at the directorate, division, branch, and first-line supervision levels, the selected organizations were asked to identify the competitive edges on which they compete. The organizations were then studied at the directorate, division, and branch levels to determine how performance on the critical competitive edges is measured and to identify the constraints that prevent the depots from achieving their objectives. The results of this research were: (1) The development of guidelines concerning AFLC goals and depot objectives, competitive edges, performance criteria, and system constraints; and (2) A prescriptive depot maintenance performance model showing the desired relationships among proposed depot objectives, critical competitive edges identified by AFLC managers (quality, cost, and delivery), proposed performance criteria, and current system constraints. Due to the exploratory nature of this research, a case study methodology was employed. Aircraft Maintenance, Competitive Edges, Depot Maintenance, Performance Measurement Systems, System Constraints, Theory of Constraints.
An Analysis of Performance Measurement Systems in the Air Force Logistics Command's Aircraft Repair Depots
Author: Marsha Jeanne Kwolek
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Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Measuring Productivity of Depot-Level Aircraft Maintenance in the Air Force Logistics Command
Author: Ralph W Lowry (III.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This investigation measures the productivity (efficiency) of the San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Aircraft Division between October 1983 to May 1985. This thesis consisted of developing a multiple input, multiple output Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and a multiple input single output regression model to measure productive efficiency. The data base consisted of time series data drawing only from the Aircraft Division. The results of the DEA models showed the Aircraft Division to be 100 percent relative efficient during four of the 20 months studied as well as five out of the seven quarters. Extensive interpretations of the DEA results was restricted due to having data for only 20 months. The regression analysis only showed that perhaps total labor hours (direct labor hours + overtime hours) could be a predictor of total aircraft produced. No regression model for measuring productivity could be developed from the data due to the limited availability of data. Keywords: Maintenance management; Aircraft maintenance; Mathematical programming; Linear programming; Productivity.
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This investigation measures the productivity (efficiency) of the San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Aircraft Division between October 1983 to May 1985. This thesis consisted of developing a multiple input, multiple output Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and a multiple input single output regression model to measure productive efficiency. The data base consisted of time series data drawing only from the Aircraft Division. The results of the DEA models showed the Aircraft Division to be 100 percent relative efficient during four of the 20 months studied as well as five out of the seven quarters. Extensive interpretations of the DEA results was restricted due to having data for only 20 months. The regression analysis only showed that perhaps total labor hours (direct labor hours + overtime hours) could be a predictor of total aircraft produced. No regression model for measuring productivity could be developed from the data due to the limited availability of data. Keywords: Maintenance management; Aircraft maintenance; Mathematical programming; Linear programming; Productivity.
Air Force Materiel Command
Author: Marcia Leonard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423516521
Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Performance measurement has long been a matter of debate in logistics. However, in the recent past, there has been a renewed emphasis as AF leaders continue to seek funding for weapon system spares despite marginal improvements in mission capability. The Chief's Logistics Review, Logistics Transformation Program, AFMC Constraints Assessment Program, the Spares Requirement Review Board, the Spares Campaign, and the Depot Maintenance Reengineering and Transformation all represent efforts to find and implement effective answers (RAND, 2003:ix). And, while there appears to be a consensus that better performance measures are needed, there is little agreement on exactly what should be measured, and how. Many performance management plans have been developed and recommended. In 1999, the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) published Supply Chain Management: A Recommended Performance Measurement Scorecard to guide senior DoD logistics managers. Then, in 2001, the AF logistics Management Agency developed a set of aggregate or strategic level metrics, Measuring The Health of USAF Supply, at the request of AF/ILS. Most recently, in November of 2003, the Supply Management Division published the AFMC Supply Chain Metrics Guide. However, each of these performance measurement plans each is distinctly different. This research seeks to determine how and why these performance measurements plans differ, and to examine what such differences might reveal about the nature of performance measurement in AF logistics systems.
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ISBN: 9781423516521
Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Performance measurement has long been a matter of debate in logistics. However, in the recent past, there has been a renewed emphasis as AF leaders continue to seek funding for weapon system spares despite marginal improvements in mission capability. The Chief's Logistics Review, Logistics Transformation Program, AFMC Constraints Assessment Program, the Spares Requirement Review Board, the Spares Campaign, and the Depot Maintenance Reengineering and Transformation all represent efforts to find and implement effective answers (RAND, 2003:ix). And, while there appears to be a consensus that better performance measures are needed, there is little agreement on exactly what should be measured, and how. Many performance management plans have been developed and recommended. In 1999, the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) published Supply Chain Management: A Recommended Performance Measurement Scorecard to guide senior DoD logistics managers. Then, in 2001, the AF logistics Management Agency developed a set of aggregate or strategic level metrics, Measuring The Health of USAF Supply, at the request of AF/ILS. Most recently, in November of 2003, the Supply Management Division published the AFMC Supply Chain Metrics Guide. However, each of these performance measurement plans each is distinctly different. This research seeks to determine how and why these performance measurements plans differ, and to examine what such differences might reveal about the nature of performance measurement in AF logistics systems.
Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030921520X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, has been important to the Air Force since its inception. This is a much larger issue for the Air Force today, having effectively been at war for 20 years, with its aircraft becoming increasingly more expensive to operate and maintain and with military budgets certain to further decrease. The enormously complex Air Force weapon system sustainment enterprise is currently constrained on many sides by laws, policies, regulations and procedures, relationships, and organizational issues emanating from Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Air Force itself. Against the back-drop of these stark realities, the Air Force requested the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, under the auspices of the Air Force Studies Board to conduct and in-depth assessment of current and future Air Force weapon system sustainment initiatives and recommended future courses of action for consideration by the Air Force. Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs addresses the following topics: Assess current sustainment investments, infrastructure, and processes for adequacy in sustaining aging legacy systems and their support equipment. Determine if any modifications in policy are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations for changes in Air Force regulations, policies, and strategies to accomplish the sustainment goals of the Air Force. Determine if any modifications in technology efforts are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations regarding the technology efforts that should be pursued because they could make positive impacts on the sustainment of the current and future systems and equipment of the Air Force. Determine if the Air Logistics Centers have the necessary resources (funding, manpower, skill sets, and technologies) and are equipped and organized to sustain legacy systems and equipment and the Air Force of tomorrow. Identify and make recommendations regarding incorporating sustainability into future aircraft designs.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030921520X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, has been important to the Air Force since its inception. This is a much larger issue for the Air Force today, having effectively been at war for 20 years, with its aircraft becoming increasingly more expensive to operate and maintain and with military budgets certain to further decrease. The enormously complex Air Force weapon system sustainment enterprise is currently constrained on many sides by laws, policies, regulations and procedures, relationships, and organizational issues emanating from Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Air Force itself. Against the back-drop of these stark realities, the Air Force requested the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, under the auspices of the Air Force Studies Board to conduct and in-depth assessment of current and future Air Force weapon system sustainment initiatives and recommended future courses of action for consideration by the Air Force. Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs addresses the following topics: Assess current sustainment investments, infrastructure, and processes for adequacy in sustaining aging legacy systems and their support equipment. Determine if any modifications in policy are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations for changes in Air Force regulations, policies, and strategies to accomplish the sustainment goals of the Air Force. Determine if any modifications in technology efforts are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations regarding the technology efforts that should be pursued because they could make positive impacts on the sustainment of the current and future systems and equipment of the Air Force. Determine if the Air Logistics Centers have the necessary resources (funding, manpower, skill sets, and technologies) and are equipped and organized to sustain legacy systems and equipment and the Air Force of tomorrow. Identify and make recommendations regarding incorporating sustainability into future aircraft designs.
Repair Process Performance Analysis
Author: Robert J Appelbaum (Jr)
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Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This report examined the current method for assessing the performance of the depot level exchangeable repair process. As a result of our analysis, the author proposes the development of a new system for measuring this performance. The system we propose is a series of five data screens. Three screens provide item level data for repair prioritization execution and detailed repair analysis purposes. Two screens aggregate important portions of the item level data and portray it by unit, section, division, Air Logistics Center, Air Force Logistics Command, or by weapon system. As a result of this development effort, the author recommends changes to policy effecting the way AFLC measures depot level repair performance. Keywords: Air Force Logistics Command. (kr).
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Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This report examined the current method for assessing the performance of the depot level exchangeable repair process. As a result of our analysis, the author proposes the development of a new system for measuring this performance. The system we propose is a series of five data screens. Three screens provide item level data for repair prioritization execution and detailed repair analysis purposes. Two screens aggregate important portions of the item level data and portray it by unit, section, division, Air Logistics Center, Air Force Logistics Command, or by weapon system. As a result of this development effort, the author recommends changes to policy effecting the way AFLC measures depot level repair performance. Keywords: Air Force Logistics Command. (kr).
Air Force Journal of Logistics
Maintenance Metrics U.S. Air Force
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Air Force journal of logistics: vol24_no4
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142899100X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142899100X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents
Author: United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange
Publisher:
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Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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