Adapting Logistics Models to a Microcomputer for Interface with Computer-Aided Design Systems.

摘要

Currently, logistics models are run primarily on mainframe computers and at later stages of the design process. If logistics models were adapted to microcomputers, the models would be more accessible to the logistics engineers, thus resulting in products which are more reliable and more easily maintained. A further step would be to interface these models with a computer-aided design (CAD) system. This thesis examines the difficulties of selecting models for incorporation into a CAD system and the use of microcomputers to run these models. A selection function was developed to identify models for specific types of analysis and their suitability for incorporation into a CAD system. The literature on microcomputers was examined to determine the limitations of microcomputers to run large logistics models. To further define these limitations the Reliability Maintainability Cost Model was adapted to an IBM-PC microcomputer.