DocumentCode :
239386
Title :
Simulating F-22 Heavy Maintenance and Modifications workforce multi-skilling
Author :
Sheppard, Wesley A. ; Johnson, Alan W. ; Miller, John O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Operational Sci., Air Force Inst. of Technol., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
fYear :
2014
fDate :
7-10 Dec. 2014
Firstpage :
2270
Lastpage :
2279
Abstract :
The U.S. Air Force aircraft maintenance depots face complex operating environments due to the diversity of aircraft or mission design series (MDS) maintained by each depot and the variability of maintenance requirements for each MDS. Further complicating their operations is the variability of maintenance actions required from one aircraft to another within each MDS and a highly specialized workforce that has inherent inflexibility to compensate for the workload variability. Air Force Materiel Command is reviewing maintenance personnel multi-skilling as a method to efficiently absorb the variability of workload and maintenance requirements between aircraft. Using a simulation built in ARENA 14®, we studied the F-22 Heavy Maintenance Modification Program through a series of designed experiments. Our study analyzes whether using a multi-skilled workforce impacts the productivity of depot maintenance personnel through simulation of several multi-skilling policies.
Keywords :
aircraft maintenance; digital simulation; military aircraft; military computing; multiskilling; ARENA 14; Air Force Materiel Command; F-22 heavy maintenance modification program; MDS; U.S. Air Force aircraft maintenance depots; maintenance personnel multiskilling; mission design series; modification workforce multiskilling; Aircraft; Analytical models; Atmospheric modeling; Logic gates; Maintenance engineering; Military aircraft; Personnel;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference (WSC), 2014 Winter
Conference_Location :
Savanah, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7484-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2014.7020071
Filename :
7020071
Link To Document :
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