Ground Vehicle Reliability
2007 DoD Maintenance Symposium & Exhibiton
Availability and Reliability of Defense Materiel
Requirements to the Defense Industry
Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Frank Kammerer
Section 1 Head and G-3
Army Operational Logistics/Land Systems Technology Development Division
School of Land Systems Engineering and Army School of Engineering
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Mission of the
Army Operational Log/Land Sys Tech Development Division
Prepares and updates policies concerning conceptual planning,
doctrine, training, organization, processes and equipment of both
Army Maintenance Corps/Services and Army Supply Corps/Services
Responsibility for 2 branches
Provides
technical-logistic procurement and in-service support of
Bundeswehr land systems
Responsibility for all services/mil organizational areas
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Land Systems
The entire spectrum of weapon systems and equipment
for land-based operations
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Operational Land Systems
Analysis
phase
Log requirements
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Risk reduction
phase
Introduction In-service
phase
phase
Suitability test (tactical/logistic)
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Suitability Test
Land Sys Authorized Representative
of Dir, Army Logistic Services
Example: Cold-weather test, Sweden
Test report incl. definition of
product suitability status
(suited, partly suited, not suited)
and possibly modification demands
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Example: Tropical test, French
Guiana
Nov
2007
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Availability of Land Systems
Service time
Service use
profile
Reliability
-Monitoring
-Firepower
-Mobility
-Comms
-Readiness
-Tracking
-Special technology
-Individual parts
-Redundancies
-Materials
-Quality of manufacture
Tactics
Op profile
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Downtime
Maintainability
Ease of maint
Testability
-Accessibility
-Replaceability
-Modular design
-Adjustments
-Fault diagnosis
-Fault localization
-Interfaces
-ITS / ETS
Technology
Reliability and Maintainability
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Organization
- Maint capacity
- Ensured stock
level
- Transport time
- Logistic supportability
Logistics
Log Spt System
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Robust, Reliable Land Systems
Land systems requirement profile
Mobility
Mission
Logistics
Force
protection
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Environment
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Requirements to the Defense Industry
General:
•Robust, reliable land systems
•Damage prevention and damage assessment
•Emergency operation and temporary/battle damage repair
•Qualified damage repair
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Damage Prevention/Damage Assessment
Damage prevention
Damage assessment
Monitoring
Prognosis
Diagnosis
Diagnostic expert on site
Integrated support
Support by external experts
ARMY LOGISTICS –
ENSURING SUCCESS ON OPS
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Emergency Operation / Temp & Battle Damage Repair
Emergency operation (battle switch)
Temporary/Battle damage repair
Vital functions: mobility – firepower – comms
Standards
Redundancies
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Qualified Damage Repair
Qualified damage repair
Equipment repairable by military personnel
Equipment able to be disassembled
Special tools
Line replaceable units
Lifting devices
Civilian contractor support
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Current Operations - Challenges
COTS/IOR products are often not designed to meet
military requirements
Frequent deployment of prototype materiel
Operational readiness is not given from the logistic perspective
Land systems in svc use on ops, but not at home (e.g., APCV DINGO)
Additional qualification training efforts (multirole capability)
Additional sustainment training efforts
REPAIRMEN
REPAIRMEN --
WE
WEDO
DOTECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY
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Conclusion
Land systems must be robust and possess a basic
design that allows precise diagnosis, temporary
emergency operation and the qualified reestablishment of the system's vital functions with little
effort by military maintenance personnel.
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Ground Vehicle Reliability
2007 DoD Maintenance Symposium & Exhibiton
Availability and Reliability of Defense Materiel
Requirements to the Defense Industry
Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Frank Kammerer
Section 1 Head and G-3
Army Operational Logistics/Land Systems Technology Development Division
School of Land Systems Engineering and Army School of Engineering
TSL/FSHT - Force Dev Div
2007 DOD Maintenance Conference & Exhibition
Nov 2007
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