Determining operating and support costs with USAF D056 maintenance data collection system

摘要

Successful users of the USAF Maintenance Data Collection System - D056 - have resolved and reduced the often deficient data, ascertaining maintenance action rates, reliability parameters and manpower resource consumption of weapon systems (or components thereof). Northrop Corporation utilizes the data to estimate support costs. This paper will follow the development of the support cost for the F-5, from receipt of raw D056 data, resolution of anomolies in the data, incorporation validated data into a useable data base, and finally, the computation of operating and support costs using this data.