Investigation of the Relationships between Auxiliary Equipment Readiness and Auxiliary Maintenance Personnel Characteristics

摘要

This thesis evaluates the effectiveness of training similar to that associated with a proposed auxiliary equipment rating, the analysis reported here examined the relationship between auxiliary equipment readiness on eighteen FFG-7 class ships and the quality, experience, and training of the personnel assigned to the ships. More experience, higher numbers of trained personnel, and higher numbers of high school graduates were hypothesized to contribute to lower euipment downtime. Results of the analysis support this hypothesis in the case of quality and training. Increased experience, however, is found to be directly related to equipment downtime on the FFG-7 class ships. The amount of variation in total downtime attributable to personnel characteristics is small, however, when compared with that attributable to ship effects, as measured by average ship downtime. Accounting for ship effects in this study facilitated a meaningful analysis of the personnel-characteristics effects. The results of this analysis indicated that an increase in training coupled with improved selection and retention of relatively higher quality personnel would contribute to a reduction in downtime of auxiliary equipments on FFG-7 class ships.