A simulation based analysis of the B-1B´s AN/ALQ-161 maintenance process

Author

Hill, Raymond R. ; Mattioda, Daniel ; Garza, Ricardo

Author_Institution

Air Force Inst. of Technol., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

2547

Lastpage

2558

Abstract

The Air Force is investigating the use of three levels of aircraft maintenance. This work examines the effect of maintenance resource collaboration and a centralized repair facility on a critical line replacement unit for a major Air Force weapon system. Maintenance data is collected, summarized into probability distributions and used in a discrete event simulation model to examine the impact of changes to the Air Force hierarchical maintenance structure.

Keywords

aircraft maintenance; discrete event simulation; military avionics; military computing; probability; weapons; BIB AN/ALQ-161 maintenance process; air force hierarchical maintenance structure; air force weapon system; aircraft maintenance; centralized repair facility; critical line replacement unit; discrete event simulation model; maintenance data; maintenance resource collaboration; probability distributions; simulation based analysis; Aircraft; Analytical models; Atmospheric modeling; Inspection; Maintenance engineering; Military aircraft;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2011 Winter

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

0891-7736

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2108-3

Electronic_ISBN

0891-7736

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2011.6147963

Filename

6147963