Plan to join us at the:
DoD Maintenance Technology Needs
Workshops - "Production Management Systems"
January 25 and 26 at the Reed Conference Center
(the Sheraton Hotel complex) in Midwest City, Oklahoma (near Tinker
AFB).
This inaugural workshop
will focus on production management systems. Production management
improves manufacturing operations throughout the product lifecycle
by:
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providing real-time manufacturing/repair
information for process improvement,
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reducing the manufacturing cycle time and
increasing weapon system readiness and product throughput,
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significantly reducing errors and implementation
time between the planning and manufacturing processes, and
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monitoring lifecycle product performance and
identifying systemic repair needs.
The
workshop, in partnership with the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at
Tinker AFB. will be held on January 25 followed by an extensive tour of the
ALC on January 26. On-line registration will be available in early
December. Interested participants should send an e-mail to Tony Haynes
at tonyh@ncms.org. The workshop fee will be $150 for NCMS members
and DoD, and $250 for non-members.
Recently
Approved Projects:
Integrating Sensors and Predictive
Maintenance Systems with Performance Support Technology to Achieve Increased
CH-53E Readiness and Reliability
The CH-53 platform, which was first
introduced into service in 1966, is experiencing “higher-than-expected usage
rates” in Iraq and Afghanistan, and thus is exacerbating age-related
problems on the CH-53E, including structural fatigue and wear-and-tear of
the rotors. This project will integrate CH-53E Integrated Mechanical
Diagnostic System (IMDS) technology with Electronic Performance Support
Systems (EPSS) to provide CH-53E helicopter maintenance technicians with a
seamless, end-to-end maintenance prognostic, diagnostic, and repair suite
that will measurably increase the readiness and availability levels of the
aircraft.
This project will benefit HMT-302, the CH-53E training
squadron, NADEP Cherry Point – engineering authority that manages and
executes depot level maintenance for the CH-53E, as well as fielded CH-53E
squadrons that conduct Organizational Level (O-Level) maintenance. This
project is significant and unprecedented in that it will be the first time
that sensors, IMDS, and EPSS technology have been integrated and
demonstrated together in support of military aircraft maintenance.
The DoD participants are the Marine
Helicopter Training Squadron 302 (HMT 302), Marine Aircraft Group 29, 2nd
Marine Aircraft Wing, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Atlantic (Marine Corps Air
Station, Jacksonville, North Carolina) and the Naval Air Depot, Cherry
Point.
The NCMS contact is Mike Gnam,
mikeg@ncms.org, 734-995-4971.
Legacy Data Lifecycle Management
The need to obtain replacement parts for legacy systems has
increased tremendously due to the war efforts in the Iraq and Afghanistan.
Currently, suppliers of parts are giving the old, 2-D part drawings, which
the supplier then reads and develops a manufacturing plan for producing the
parts for the DoD. This method, used since World War I, is very susceptible
to human error, both in the recording of the required information, as well
as the reading and transcribing of the data. As a result, parts are
produced with potentially lower quality and increased supply time. This
project aims to benefit the warfighter by increasing the availability of
high-quality parts through a reduction in the time required to qualify
manufacturing processes for parts. In addition, there will be a reduced
lead time for product change, and large reductions in human errors via
electronic characteristic flow-down from design engineering through the
first-article inspection reports.
This project will result in the following quantitative
benefits to OEM, DLA, and depot interface with suppliers:
The DoD participants are the Oklahoma City Air Logistics
Center, the Defense Logistics Agency, Letterkenny Army Depot, and the Naval
Air Depot, Cherry Point.
The NCMS contact is Tony Haynes,
tonyh@ncms.org,
734-995-4930.
Participants Requested: One-Stop Shopping for Parts Management Data
The
DoD Parts Management Reengineering Implementation Team (PMRIPT) is seeking
your assistance with identifying individuals that can help them understand
the systems, tools, and methods used to make parts selection decisions. The
PMRIPT would like to interview engineers, parts managers, and/or technicians
that perform parts selection as a function of their jobs. Information
gathered from these interviews will be used to identify user needs, and
generate system requirements for a web-based one-stop-shop (Portal) for
Parts Management related data. Also, this information will be used to
enhance the design and development of the Portal. The interviews will be
confidential, and conducted on a one-on-one basis by a trained facilitator
at a site or medium that is most convenient to the interviewee.
The Portal will be an
intelligent parts selection search engine intended to serve both the
Government and private industry. Therefore, the PMRIPT needs your help
prior to system development to assure the requirements of its industry users
are incorporated during the design phase. If you are interested in
participating or want to learn more about this effort, please contact the
Defense Standardization Program Office Point of Contact, Ms. Latasha Beckman
at 703-434-9139.
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