Cost Effectiveness, System Effectiveness, Integrated Logistics Support, and Maintainability

The cost effectiveness concept covers the measure of a system in terms of total dollar value. Cost effectiveness encompasses the elements of system effectiveness (a quantitative measure of a system´s technical ability) as well as cost. One of the elements of system effectiveness is maintainability. Maintainability is an effective mechanism for the accomplishment of planned maintenance during the early design and development phases of a system. Planned maintenance is an element of integrated logistics support. The intent of this paper is to outline the basic elements associated with cost effectiveness, system effectiveness, and integrated logistics support, to outline the interrelationships of these concepts, and to cover the discipline of maintainability as an element of each concept.