Manpower Forecasts and Planned Maintenance Personnel Skill Level Changes

摘要

The purpose of this research effort was to establish a method to estimate the effect of reducing maintenance personnel experience levels. The performance measures of interest were sortie/mission generation capability and manpower required. The United States Air Force maintenance data collection system to obtain failure rates, interviews with maintenance experts to determine estimated task times for normal and low skilled maintenance personnel, and the Logistics Composite Model to computer simulate the maintenance organization, are the tools which were utilized in this research study to develop such a method. Through this modeling technique productivity comparisons are made between normal(skill level 5) and low (skill level 3) maintenance personnel. A computer simulation model of the F-4E aircraft is used with maintenance task time for normal and low skill maintenance personnel.