This report covers a project to develop and test a functional simulation model of aircraft maintenance. The model is called AMES, which means Aircraft Maintenance Effectiveness Simulation. AMES is a computer model that simulates the operation and maintenance of an aircraft squadron. It is different from other aircraft models in that it measures the effects of human errors in maintenance (maintenance accuracy). AMES is a potential tool for managers to help identify those aspects of maintenance with large payoffs for improving operational readiness and/or mission completion rate. Additionally, AMES can be used to evaluate quantitatively the effects of human factors improvements on aircraft readiness. AMES is important to the maintenance community because of its treatment of maintenance error rates. Maintenance errors are known to have a large impact on many other factors in the maintenance performance equation, e.g., elapsed time, consumption of spares, aborted missions, etc. However, this knowledge has seldom been put to good use. One reason is that errors are difficult to measure. Another reason is that the effects of errors are highly interactive, and not easily traced by conventional analysis techniques.
Aircraft Maintenance Effectiveness Simulation (AMES) Model
1980
118 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Aircraft maintenance , Computerized simulation , Operational readiness , Maintenance , Computer programs , Models , Human factors engineering , Errors , Monte Carlo method , Mathematical models , AMES(Aircraft Maintenance Effectiveness Simulation) , F-14A aircraft