ILS

ILS integrated logistics support, supporting the introduction into service and through life needs of materiel.

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Technical Data Support
Technical data to be maintained includes:

  • all types of specifications & standards
  • engineering drawings
  • instructions, reports, manuals, tabular data, test results
  • software documentation, used in the development, production, in-service operation and logistics support (such as maintenance, provisioning, codification, testing and modification)
  • training materials
  • disposal of a materiel system.

Data compatibility is very important in Government and Defence contracts so the S1000D standard was developed:
The ASD S1000D standard is an internationally recognised specification for the  production and procurement of technical publications for Defence, Aerospace and capital-intensive equipment.

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Personnel Support

Personnel is the identification and provisioning of:

  • Service Personnel
  • Defence, civilian and
  • contractor personnel with:
    The rank, classification and skills necessary to acquire, install, test, train, operate and support a materiel system throughout its life cycle

In Service Personnel Support includes:

  • Continuous development, identification and provisioning of personnel to support the capability
  • HR management
  • Recruiting
  • Training / re training
  •  Transfer, posting, replacement
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Facility Support

Facilities includes considerations necessary to establish:

  •  Permanent and semi-permanent capital works
  •  Associated machinery and
  •  Plant to operate and support a materiel system throughout its life cycle

In Service Facility management includes:

  •  Ongoing capital works (LOT of capability)
  •  Training, storage and maintenance facilities
  •  Facilities upgrades
  •  Forecasting and scheduling resources and construction

Facilities support consists of Garaging Arrangements, Workshop Facilities, Operational Support Facilities and Training Facilities:

  • Garaging Arrangements. Vehicles may be garaged in extant vehicle hangar facilities. These generally consist of protection from rain and shade and may include open mesh cages for equipment storage and standard 240v power.
    Other locations may utilise vehicle hangars. Garaging for vehicles whilst deployed may be non-existent or ad-hoc.
  • Workshop Facilities. Workshop facilities may be of various designs and ages. The facility generally has the tooling and sufficient fixed and portable MHE to support vehicles of similar size, not including S&TE.
  • Operational Support Facilities. Whilst not deployed, vehicles will generally have access to fuel and oil in operational support facilities.
  • Training Facilities. Training facilities may include classrooms and practical practise areas. Classrooms may be affected should large or operational training aids be required. This would be examined following identification of the need for the specific aid.
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Computer Support
Computer support encompasses the identification, acquisition and management of computing hardware, firmware, software, documentation and other resources necessary to provide data processing or computer support to the operational, maintenance, supply, training and administrative requirements of a materiel system.

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Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM)

RAM is the assessment of the inherent reliability of an item or system,

  • Reliability: how long it can be expected to operated before failure, based on the individual components from which it is comprised
  • Availability: its expected or required availability for operations, and
  • Maintainability: the maintenance time and complexity of repair of individual items,

which are then used to determine redundancy requirements, equipment quantity and maintenance resources required.

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Failure Modes Effects Analysis
Failure Modes Effects Analysisis is the analysis of HOW the equipment can fail and what is the effect of failure.

It is designed to identify potential failure modes for an item or system, to assess the risks involved with those failures, to categorise and order in terms of importance, and to identify and either put in place mitigations or institute corrective actions to address those that can be addressed.

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Reliability Centred Maintenance
Reliability Centred Maintenance is the analysis and execution of Maintenance tasks focused on preventive replacements in order to maximise the operational period.

The focus on preventive maintenance is easily understood when consideration is given to the typical reactive type maintenance, ie “fix it when it breaks”.

In the typical reactive maintenance situation, the planned preventive maintenance gets delayed while resources are sidetracked performing emergency repairs to keep the system running after something has failed.

The delayed or cancelled preventive maintenance tasks then cause the system to be put at further risk due to it now operating beyond the planned / calculated maintenance periods. These operations beyond expected maintenance periods may place extra stress on the system, resulting in failure, diversion of maintenance resources to fix the failure, and a constant downward spiral in reliability. eg

  • An oil change that is normally scheduled to be performed at 250 operating hours gets postponed due to a separate failure elsewhere in the system.
  • The system is put back into service but the planned maintenance window for oil change has been missed and the system is now unable to be taken off-line for another 250 hours due to operational requirements.
  • So now the equipment has to run on the same oil for 500 hours rather than the planned 250.
  • If the original design did not allow for a maintenance period of twice the planned period, this may result in higher levels of contaminants and lower lubrication performance, and hence higher wear.
  • This higher level of wear may show up quickly in terms of an earlier failure of an associated piece of equipment, or it may not show up for years, instead resulting in perhaps a major overhaul at 5 years instead of the planned 10 year expected life.
  • Repeated maintenance delays may compound the unseen wear or degradation.
  • Had the oil change been able to be performed at the same time as the initial failure, the costs involved as a result of the early overhaul, or equipment failure, could probably have been avoided.

It is the desire to avoid this type of downward spiral that drives Reliability Centred Maintenance, particularly for system critical functions. (Sometimes a failure in a piece of equipment is not critical to the operation of the system, so repair on failure is acceptable. eg a light bulb failure when there is sufficient light from surrounding light bulbs to allow operations in the area to continue.)