Establish Life Cycle Costs For A Bid / Proposal

Summary

The OEM was preparing a bid for the production and sustainment of a Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle (CRV) at an agreed level of operational capability and availability (Readiness).
The OEM required a solution to analyse alternative maintenance approaches to optimize the affordability of its platform, in the context of the specified operational usage (mission profile) and environments of the customer.
The OEM required a means of validating and communicating their analysis to the customer (Defence).

The results of the project included:

Analysis solution to model the impact of mission profile / operating environment on maintenance costs
Identified potential poor performers in the system based on assumed system reliability
Proposed maintenance actions given a system reliability
Validation of sustainment approach
A knowledge base of failures and maintenance actions that the OEM can reuse across the life of the platform / contract

The OEM analysed the maintenance records for the platform to identify components that were failing more frequently than expected, and used MADE to:

Generate a MADE model of the CRV platform
Define the expected Mission Profiles / Operating Environments
Calculate the expected reliability of the systems
Identify the maintenance requirements for the design configuration
Conduct trade studies to optimize Readiness and Affordability of the CRV platform based on the impact of configuration / mission profile / operating environment on maintenance costs
Conduct technical validation for the recommended maintenance approach
Calculate expected maintenance costs of the platform
Maintain a knowledge base of failures and associated maintenance actions that can be reused across the life of the platform / contract