The Economic Analysis of Maintainability

The economic analysis of maintainability is concerned with the selection of one of several feasible alternative maintenance resource allocations. The available resources are specified by the operational deployment of the prime mission equipment. Operational requirements such as reaction time, on-station time, dispersal time, and mission time will directly affect maintenance doctrine and hardware. The complexity of the cost-operations-maintenance interaction and the consequences of decision are such that the selection of an alternative cannot be done by chance or by the adoption of the first feasible solution. This paper discusses the application of appropriate analytic techniques to the formulation of a cost-effective tactical doctrine.