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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
ABSTRACT......................................... ii
I INTRODUCTION............................ 1
VI CONCLUSIONS............................ 25
ENDNOTES......................................... 27
BIBLIOGRAPHY..................................... 28
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
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requirement in systems design and development, the Reliability
Centered Maintenance concept has not been accepted into the post
life cycle.
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CHAPTER II
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
the DC-8. The DC-8 had been developed using the traditional
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in Program Guidance Memoranda. Under the Program Guidance each
execution.
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CHAPTER III
OVERVIEW
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If the critical point can be identified immediately prior to
CONCEPT
available) to determine the ways the particular item can fail and
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The tasks are then packaged to economize maintenance actions.
the decision logic will lead the analyst to the conclusion that
(corrective maintenance).
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
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in a very conservative manner. Tasks will be assigned rather than
designed into the system. Tasks are routinely corrected after the
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FAILURE ANALYSIS
can occur not so much because the item is old but perhaps because
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Catastrophic: A failure which may cause death or weapon
system loss.
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The object is to identify weaknesses and the criticality of each.
whole. 7 The FMECA should not be confused with Fault Tree Analysis
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CHAPTER IV
PROCESS
pruning the work break down structure of those items which would
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dollar value item and its failure could cause loss of mission and
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compatible with one of the four preventive maintenance tasks
analyst;
AGE EXPLORATION
for the weapon system can monitor failures. Actual usage data in
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By reviewing the resistance to failure and time to actual
5,000 miles. These time limits may be grossly different from the
availability.
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maintenance intervals when assigning frequency of maintenance. If
an aircraft turbine engine requires maintenance every 150
overall program. 8
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CHAPTER V
REM-TATflJIY
system.
not simply field the weapon system and develop plans without
regard to this thing called "reliability"? In order to understand
develops plans for the effective utilization of his force with the
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implied understanding that his ships and supporting assets will
successfully crossing the channel was only 40%, and then only in
FIELDED EQUIPMENT
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Centered Maintenance. Preventive maintenance is being performed
usage data. The second category consists of those items that were
gained.
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reduced operational availability, higher maintenance labor and
United States Marine Corps has taken the lead in the development
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LAV-25. 1 1 In addition, a number of collateral benefits were
acquisition process with actual Marine Corps usage data for the
numbered vehicle.
Equipment readiness levels may remain low until the cause can be
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Significant cost savings can be realized and operational
The item, none the less, is sent to the rebuild facility, broken
down into its' lowest component parts and rebuilt. The costs of
the system will operate when called upon to do so for the duration
logic.
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In his thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School, LCdr. Harris
examined the maintenance plan for the S-3A aircraft. The S-3A is
systems.
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ALUDITINH
considerations, and new uses for the system will impact on the
Record is a data base for the engineering data used during systems
analysis is appropriate.
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CHAPTER VI
CONCLUSIONS
There are three conclusions that can be drawn from this study
conclusions are:
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for those fielded weapon systems which could most benefit from
implemented.
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ENRTES
' Nowlan, F.S. et al. Reliability Centered Maintenance. San
Francisco: Dolby Access Press, 1978, p. 5.
2 Blanchard, Benjamin S. Logistics Engineerini and Management.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986, p. 216.
7 Blanchard, p. 206.
B Nowlan, p. 109.
9 Blanchard, p. 12.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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