NDLI: Setting the requirements for the Royal Air Force's next generation aircraft

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hockley, C.J. Appleton, D.P.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Headquarters Logistics Command, London, UK (Hockley, C.J.)
Abstract	Despite the fact that it is extremely early even in the definition of reliability and maintainability targets for the RAF's Future Offensive Aircraft (FOA), the support vision is looking for an aircraft which will have guaranteed periods of availability by staying serviceable, requires only a few maintenance personnel, needs little in the way of specialized support and aircraft ground equipment (AGE), and is thus ready and capable to be deployed and operated anywhere in the world. Traditional reliability and maintainability requirements which allow a specific number of faults and failures are, therefore, considered inadequate for these needs and so a maintenance free operating period (MFOP) concept has been selected, in principle, as the prime reliability and maintainability requirement. By specifying reliability and maintainability in this way it is the intention to drive the design from the bottom up rather than accepting the old top down approach which allocates a number of faults to each system and sub-system. A better understanding of all failure mechanisms will be required as will a more thorough understanding of the environment and usage; the approach will also demand better specification and description of such parameters by the customer. Industry and the customer will therefore have to work together to achieve these new demanding requirements and tackle the considerable technical challenges in partnership from day one of the programme.
Starting Page	44
Ending Page	49
File Size	533217
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780337832
ISSN	0149144X
DOI	10.1109/RAMS.1997.571662
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-01-13
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Military aircraft Maintenance Personnel Logistics Ground support Cost function Fault tolerant systems Degradation Availability Failure analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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