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Track 2 Session 5
8:50 to 10:00 a.m. Thursday
June 15, 2006
Data Analysis and Reliability Modeling
for Fielded Propulsion and Power Systems in NAVAIR
Reliability Engineering is
often focused on predicting and assessing the design reliability
from a manufacturer's or supplier's perspective. This presentation
will focus on a different situation many organizations face as
buyers and managers of systems: the assessment and prediction of
reliability from a consumer's perspective. The reliability
characteristics of a system along with the plans and programs to
maintain or change those characteristics can be major costs or
investments for an organization.
Over the last 6 years, NAVAIR Propulsion and Power Engineering
has made a significant investment in the development of metrics and
reliability prediction capabilities for the engines and secondary
power systems it manages. Today these reliability programs are
recognized in Naval Aviation as key in improving the availability of
these systems. Our presentation will focus on: the need for and how
to present the value of reliability for fielded systems; covering
the needs of the end users and the bill payers; integrating
reliability analysis with existing process; and developing products
for presentation at multiple levels within the organization. We will
also discuss some of the opportunities and challenges that go along
with the analysis of field data, using logistics data for
engineering analysis, and we will present some examples of data analysis and
reliability modeling products.
Key Words: Fielded Systems,
Data Analysis, Reliability Modeling, Logistics Data
Richard Bee and Joseph Sparks
NAVAIR
Patuxent River, Maryland |
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