NDLI: Estimating and using direct operating cost as a design parameter

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Zreet, M.C. Neus, M. Zhuoqi Chen
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: MSME, LEED Green Assoc., San Diego, CA, USA (Zhuoqi Chen) \|\| Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, TX, USA (Zreet, M.C.; Neus, M.)
Abstract	One of the many challenges faced by Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) engineers is convincing design teams and management of the impact of component or system failures and the resulting maintenance. This is especially true when multiple design options are under consideration. Even when all options will, more or less, achieve the desired operational result, there are almost always compromises that need to be made to select the single most optimum design for production. Almost universally, some of the compromises that will be made involve Reliability, Maintainability, and Cost. One option may be projected to achieve very attractive R& M metrics, but is extremely expensive to procure or to produce. Another option may prove to be inexpensive, but has R&M characteristics that are degraded, perhaps significantly. R&M Engineers will undoubtedly champion the first option. However, typical R&M metrics, such as Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), can be a tough sell. Cost, whose impact to a design program is immediate and inherently well understood, tends to be judged more critically than MTBF or MTTR, whose real world im pact can be somewhat difficult to comprehend. This paper explores an alternative design metric that combines Reliability, Maintainability, and Cost into a single, less ambiguous, and customer centric metric: Direct Operating Cost (DOC). DOC represents how much a customer can expect to spend keeping a system operational over a defined period of time. By using DOC in the design process, a design program can look beyond customer acquisition cost to focus on creating solutions that provide the best overall value to their customers.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	236904
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479967032
DOI	10.1109/RAMS.2015.7105181
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Maintenance engineering Aircraft Fuels Reliability engineering Inspection Measurement Assessment Design for Reliability and Maintainability Operating Cost Maintenance Cost
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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