Overview

The Oklahoma City-Air Logistics Center (OC-ALC) was experiencing difficulties in the real-time visibility of aircraft and ground support equipment (GSE), making it hard to quickly locate, stage, deploy, and coordinate critical resources for product and resource movement. In the depot environment, the inability to monitor the status and location of MRO assets resulted in increased costs as well as delays in the repair flow day. RampMap®, building on KBSI's highly successful XML/IDEF3-based Training project, provides knowledged based visualization, management, and tracking of aircraft and GSE across the ALC.

Features

The RampMap® software provides map-based, real-time visibility of MRO assets on site: i.e., a "ramp map." This kind of visibility is critical to reducing the wasted movement of aircraft and to improve collaborative planning, resource allocation, dispatching and statusing of MRO assets and work. The RampMap® software was intended for users of the Aircraft Maintenance Operations Control Center (AMOCC) at Tinker AFB, and as a remplacement for the manual process of maintenance asset tracking using a magnetic white board.

The RampMap® software directly reduced the phone time and man-hours required by AMOCC to monitor and plan for MRO asset movements and at the same time improved the accuracy and speed of the information and decisions made by the AMOCC in support of their day-to-day decisions regarding resource allocations to workload accomplishment. Capturing the information in an electronic environment enabled not only the quick, accurate dissemination of this information in the form of reports to management, but also automated the propagation of this information to other decision support tools (e.g., simulation modeling tools) to increase the analytical accuracy and speed of management decisions.

The RampMap® software allows users to identify, at a glance, the status of aircraft on the ramps as well as see projected aircraft moves. Non-essential aircraft moves are reduced, providing controlors with a more streamlined movement schedule. This application is also being considered for a sensor and terrorist attack monitoring and training tool.

The RampMap® tool provides the following benefits:

	Increase the operational availability of production assets.
	Increase labor effectiveness.
	Minimize moves and downtime.
	Improved threat response.
	An estimated return on investment of three months.