Cost Modeling Technologies

In assisting the government and commercial entities to stretch budgets and control costs, KBSI has continued developing innovative ways to address cost management issues, utilize best costing practices, and develop costing methodologies. KBSI’s technologies combine structured methodologies with the latest costing practices.

When determining how to cost different maintenance strategy options, decision makers must consider not only the costs that will be incurred today, but also the costs that will be incurred as a consequence of the actions under consideration. In other words, effectively weighing different maintenance strategy options requires both cost accounting and cost projection methods and tools. Cost accounting methods assist in appropriately allocating observed costs based on actual resource consumption. Methods like Activity Based Costing (ABC) provide a useful framework for this purpose. Cost projection involves determining that costs that will be observed and the timeframe in which they will be incurred.  KBSI has achieved success through decades of experience in providing the Department of Defense and industry with the necessary technology to assist them in their cost management issues. 

In addition to numerous research initiatives, KBSI has developed its own COTS to assist its customers AIØ WIN® software models business activities and, its automated Activity Based Costing (ABC) modeling and analysis capabilities, trace the costs of those activities. KBSI’s SMARTCOST® can help capture the significant cost elements in a domain and the attributes that drive their costs. Capture rules encode experts’ experience in how costs are realized. SMARTCOST® can also help visually organize knowledge bases within a product or work breakdown structure and dynamically pivot to view the knowledge in different ways or create reusable knowledge modules of an entire knowledge base or just pieces of the knowledge base. It can also help assemble composite knowledge bases from these reusable components and generate multi-level cost models supporting estimation summary, and then drill down to details.

 

 

Army Transformation in Logistics & Sustainment (ATLAS™)

KBSI is developing a unified modeling and experimentation framework that uses simulation, tradeoff analysis, and data mining analysis and optimization to enhance the Army's current and future combat systems maintenance and maintenance manpower planning.

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Cost Benefit Analysis Support Environment (CBASE)

KBSI developed and demonstrated a new integration-driven paradigm for cost benefit analysis. The CBASE technology provides qualitative and quantitative methods for modeling problem situations, performing cost benefit analysis, validating cost analysis by simulation, generating alternative scenarios, and comparing cost benefits across scenario.

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Lean Value Chain (LVC)

KBSI developed technologies and process improvements supporting critical part anticipation, solution presentation and solution management oversight. The initiative also leveraged and implemented principles of advanced supply chain management at the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) and Tinker Air Force Base.

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On Demand Simulation Support (ODSS)

KBSI designed, built, and deployed a system that provides for the rapid creation and application of simulation modeling for depot management decision support. ODSS uses a hybrid discrete-event/rule based simulation engine for execution within an advanced experiment management environment, providing support for optimizing plans, schedules, situation response, and process designs.

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Reliability Centered Maintenance Scheduler (RCMS™)

KBSI developed a tool and supporting application methodology that encapsulates a reliability-centered maintenance strategy supporting maintenance planning and scheduling such that multiple competing objectives are simultaneously optimized. The RCMS™ methodology and tool consider the overall effects of possible maintenance actions, or the risk of not performing those maintenance actions, on aggregate level metrics like engine availability, performance, and life cycle cost.

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Toolkit for Enabling Adaptive Modeling & Simulation (TEAMS™)

KBSI developed a decision support tool that uses simulation to help NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) model and simulate various activities associated with the spaceport project operations, improving decision making in areas like space vehicle mix impact, launch rates, asset utilization, and spaceport life cycle costs.

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Wireless-enabled Workflows for Ship Manufacturing and Repair (AWSM™)

KBSI is developing a new paradigm for ship manufacturing based on a redesign of manufacturing processes and the use of computing and wireless technologies that will deliver information--activity statuses, resource availabilities, design and scheduling changes--to every user, work crew, or process, regardless of location, involved in the ship production or repair.

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Hybrid Decision Wizard (HDWizard™)

KBSI developed, built, and validated a hybrid decision support toolkit that utilizes a combination of common sense reasoning, domain knowledge based reasoning, and soft computing techniques to support intelligent decision making. HDWizard™ is an agent-based decision support system that facilitates the automated generation of information from disparate and distributed data to support user-defined decision support goals.

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Pathfinder

KBSI designed and developed a comprehensive suite of technologies for life-cycle cost justification, cost/benefit analysis, integrated performance prediction, quantified trade-off analysis, and management decision-making for individual project selection, monitoring, and control. Pathfinder addressed the need for life cycle costing in depot environments, where the operational benefits of acquiring and maintaining weapons systems must be continually balanced. 

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