Now Scheduled for January 25th and 26th, 2007
The previously announced workshop - DoD Maintenance Technology Needs
Workshops "Production Management Systems" - has been
expanded to the
Weapons System Sustainment Conference
in conjunction with the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center and the
Oklahoma Aerospace Alliance
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Location: Sheraton Midwest City
Reed Convention Center
5800 Will Rogers Road (I-40 and Sooner Road)
Midwest City, OK 73110
Phone (405) 455-1800
Room rates $104 (standard
room) and $73 (Government rate)
As a
supplement to the popular CTMA Annual Symposium, NCMS is holding
the first of what is intended to be a series of workshops
designed to bring industry together with DOD maintenance
principals to discuss DoD-specific technology needs. The
workshops will focus upon particular operation/process needs at
a DoD maintenance facility, with the people responsible for
these applications presenting a list of their technology needs.
A depot tour will be included to further highlight the issues.
In addition, any ongoing projects will be reviewed that impact
the targeted applications. The twin objectives of the workshops
are to (1) identify new CTMA project ideas and to (2) identify
business opportunities outside the CTMA program for industrial
participants.
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Tentative Agenda
Thursday 1/25
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7:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
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7:55 |
Welcome and Kickoff - OC-ALC Executive |
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8:10 |
Conference Objectives – Dr. Charles Ryan –
CTMA Program Executive Director– and Tony
Haynes – Director, Advanced Manufacturing
Technology Programs |
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8:30 |
OAA Objectives – Larry Findeiss, Executive
Director |
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8:45 |
OC-ALC issues/needs 5 presentations (15
minutes each) |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:15 |
OC-ALC issues/needs continued 7
presentations (15 minutes each)
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12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
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12:45 |
OC-ALC issues/needs continued 5
presentations (15 minutes each)
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2:00 |
Summary & Wrap-up |
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2:15 - 6:00 |
Industry Displays and Depot/Industry
networking |
Friday 1/26
Morning
OC-ALC tours – Gather in hotel lobby.
Tours in groups of 30 will leave in 90 minute
intervals beginning at 8:00 am.
Registration can be found at:
https://www.ncms.org/SSL/WeaponsSys/reg07.htm
Interested participants should email Chuck Ryan at
chuckr@ncms.org. The workshop fee will be $150
for NCMS members, OAA members and Non-OC-ALC DoD.
The fee for all others will be $250. |
Who
should attend?
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Industry – Defense OEMs, commercial industry, and technology
providers for both manufacturing and sustainment operations
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OC-ALC
– Sustainment engineering and management professionals
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DoD
Maintenance Community at Large – Sustainment engineering and
management professionals
Benefits:
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Industry
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Hear depot sustainment issues/needs and look for
business opportunities
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Identify areas of overlap where CTMA projects may be
appropriate
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OC-ALC
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Communicate issues/needs to industry for identification
of potential solutions
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DoD
Maintenance Community at Large
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Identify areas of common issues/needs with OC-ALC
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Project
Kudos:
The CTMA project "Enhanced Wiring Integrity Systems"
was awarded the Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award at the recent Defense
Manufacturing Conference held in Nashville, TN. The award recognizes project
teams in the defense manufacturing community that have significantly
contributed to the understanding, development, or application of
manufacturing techniques, processes, methods, practices, or management
throughout the nation.
NCMS member companies Eclypse International (Corona,
CA) and Sikorsky Aircraft Company (Stratford, CT), and the DoD joint
services represented by Seymour Johnson Air Force Base (North Carolina),
Navy Depot (Jacksonville, FL), Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (New Hampshire),
North Island (San Diego, CA), Tobyhanna Army Depot (Pennsylvania), and the
Ogden Air Logistics Center (Utah) collaborated to make this project
successful.
Electronic wiring problems
annually cause thousands of mission aborts and result in hundreds of
thousands of hours where aircraft are not available for use. Wiring
maintenance issues also consume several million maintenance work-hours a
year.
This project focused on the
need to increase mission readiness at reduced cost by requiring less overall
maintenance. The project objective was to reduce the costs and time
needed for troubleshooting and repairing wiring systems for various military
platforms.
The most significant new technology used by the project
team is the standing wave reflectometer (SWR) which is based on an NASA
patent licensed to Eclypse International. This technology is embedded in
an easy-to-use handheld meter that an operator can use to rapidly connect,
detect and find hard faults in wiring assemblies. The data is then
downloaded to a personal computer where SWR software is used to detect and
find wiring faults to within inches.
As a result, the multi-service depot maintenance
activities using the EWIS technology are successfully addressing three
specific wiring problem areas; aircraft, dockside and shipboard cranes, and
high-density electronic motherboards in transportable communication
shelters. The EWIS tools are being deployed at additional sites as these
problem areas are being addressed by the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marines.
Significant cost, cycle time, and reliability improvements are being
realized by all users.
Widespread implementation of
this technology is expected across the services because of the success of
pilot programs which proved the capability of EWIS technology. Examples of
demonstrated savings include:
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The test and repair of
circuit breaker panels on 24 EA-6B “Prowler” aircraft which resulted in
savings of over $950,000.
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Troubleshooting wiring
problems in mobile Army communication shelters was reduced by over 50%,
allowing more shelters to be available to the warfighter.
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Identifying faulty
relays in Navy dockside cranes avoided $60,000 per delay in submarine
servicing costs while in dry dock.
For more information about EWIS, contact NCMS Program
Manager, Lee Patch at (734) 995-4972 or visit
http://www.ncms.org.
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