Maintenance Scheduling

System components suffer from wear and tear during use, and thus will fail at some time. If this failure can be anticipated, and the subject component replaced, repaired or reconditioned, then the operational availability of the system will be maintained at the optimum.

The likely failure event can be determined using e.g. Reliability Centred Maintenance analysis techniques, the outcome of which will define the intervals at which the component should be replaced, repaired or reconditioned. Maintenance activities can then be scheduled according to these defined intervals as the platform usage is recorded, minimising the occurrence of related failures, and helping to maintain the platform at operational readiness. Having completed the scheduled maintenance activity, the record of when the activity is next due needs to be updated, either by re-setting a count/clock, or adding the interval to current usage.

The Repairable Asset Management System (RAMS) developed by LSC Group enables scheduling of maintenance as platform usage is recorded, and re-sets the maintenance interval. This has been achieved, and is continually being enhanced, by the expertise resident within the Asset Management Solutions directorate of the company, a combination of ex-military engineers and technicians and software development personnel with long-term experience of developing the software application.