To augment the application of these standardized streamlined RESET processes, KBSI leveraged technology from the Air Force Logistics Center (OC-ALC) sponsored On-Demand Simulation Scheduling (ODSS) program. ODSS established advanced decision support technologies that aid in the daily management of workflow and personnel. WorkSim, a resource-constrained daily work dispatching tool developed for ODSS, generates optimized daily dispatching schedules from process descriptions, helping users maintain status information about repair items, resources, maintenance events, and scheduled workloads. WorkSim also provides sophisticated experiment management and analysis support, allowing users to simulate schedules for user-defined conditions and metrics such as flow days for each aircraft, average flow days across all aircraft and for each aircraft type, total aircraft repaired in a given duration, etc. WorkSim schedules can be generated in either Microsoft Excel or Project, and schedules account for task precedence, resource requirements, and user-defined priority and due dates.

In collaboration with the D Company, 4/101st Aviation Battalion, the Army Research Laboratories (ARL), the Cargo PMO, CCAD, Edwards AFB, the Air Force Research Laboratories, and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), KBSI is transitioning opportunities for dynamic planning, asset tracking and visibility, kit management, supply chain responsiveness, requisition processing, optimal resource dispatching, work status tracking, reliability centered maintenance, and mission driven sustainment and logistics. The focus of this work is on discovering how to apply data available in the Army’s Health Utilization Management System (HUMS) and Maintenance Management Information Systems (Sapphire, ULS-A Sc6, CPME, etc.) to drive advanced decision support tools that enable data driven decision making within Unit of Action business operations and the Fleet Management Level and help optimize Go-To-War capabilities. These investigations are currently driving a number of ongoing Unit of Action Automation and Architecture projects within the UH-PMO and in conjunction with the Army’s Common Logistics Operating Environment (CLOE) initiative.

Results

KBSI’s RESET work with UH-60 Black Hawk maintenance activities have generated some astounding results. The comprehensive and streamlined processes have dramatically accelerated training among crew members and created the basis for common metrics across teams, delivering predictable, repeatable, and visible results. Optimized scheduling allows planners to accurately utilize available manpower, and TAT has been reduced by 20 to 30%, radically increasing the turn around time for aircraft and reducing overall maintenance costs. Combat readiness? Each seven days of reduced TAT results in approximately ten additional aircraft available for the field.