Reliability Program Scorecard and Reliability Growth Planning and Assessment Models

摘要

Sustainment costs typically represent 60 - 70 percent of a programs life-cycle costs. System reliability is a key component of maximizing system availability and minimizing life-cycle costs. Key areas affected by system reliability changes include maintenance labor, repair material, and spares. Overall, an improvement in reliability can represent a significant savings in the support costs for any major weapon system (often in the tens of hundreds or millions of dollars or higher). The Reliability Program Scorecard and Reliability Growth Planning and Assessment Models are two methods which can be implemented to assist management in meeting system reliability requirements and enable the implementation of both Office of the Secretary of Defense and Army reliability policies (Directive-Type Memorandum 11-003 entitled "Reliability Analysis, Planning, Tracking, and Reporting," 21 March 2011 [DOD 2011], and the Army Reliability Policy, December 2007, respectively [Bolton 2007]).