Designing the support logistics for the FAA ACE-IDS system

Author

Ingalls, Ricki G. ; Nazemetz, John W.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Ind. Eng. & Manage., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1117

Abstract

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is beginning to field the Automated Surface Observing System Controller Equipment-Information Display System (ACE-IDS) and required a study on the service logistics for the system. The ACE-IDS is a combination of commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) and custom built hardware and software components interfaced with existing FAA and National Weather Service (NWS) systems. The ACE-IDS includes a set of networked workstations capable of displaying selected subsets of data from 10,000 predefined screens and extends the capability of the current Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS). These screen displays are populated in real time using data from a variety of FAA and NWS systems such as the ASOS, the Automation of Field Operations and Service (AFOS), and the flight data input/output (FDIO) systems. This paper outlines a simulation study that was used to develop spares and inventory strategies for the deployment of ACE-IDS

Keywords

aerospace simulation; digital simulation; logistics data processing; workstation clusters; Automated Surface Observing System; Automation of Field Operations and Service systems; FAA ACE-IDS SYSTEM; Federal Aviation Administration Automated Surface Observing System Controller Equipment Information Display System; National Weather Service systems; flight data input/output systems; hardware; inventory strategies; networked workstations; predefined screens; simulation; software; support logistics; Analytical models; Automatic control; Control systems; Displays; FAA; Intrusion detection; Logic; Logistics; Poles and towers; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the Winter

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7307-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2001.977423

Filename

977423