Scheduling heuristics were applied to a model of the aircraft maintenence depot at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center. Since the C-141 aircraft was being overloaded into depot, heuristics which gave the C-141 priority were tested in an effort to reduce the mean and variance of the distribution of times the C-141 aircraft spent at the depot. One heuristic was found which reduced the average depot time by 4%. The significance of this decrease was calculated to be 91%. A similar heuristic reduced the variance by 81%, with a significance of 100%. Thus, the potential exists for improving the flow of the overloaded C-141 aircraft through the depot, using scheduling heuristics. (Author)


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    Title :

    Application of Scheduling Heuristics to the Aircraft Maintenance Depot


    Contributors:
    J. W. Adams (author)

    Publication date :

    1980


    Size :

    54 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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