Arman: A Computer Program for Generating Inherent Corrective Maintenance Workload Times. I. Description, Evaluation, and Application

摘要

Maintenance task time, considered as a dependent variable of electronics design concepts, is discussed in the context of an equipment's inherent corrective maintenance workload (ICMW). A heuristic computer program is described which relates equipment design attributes to perceptual-motor loadings of maintenance tasks, as measured by task times. The program, artificial methods analyst (ARMAN), is a generalized work measurement procedure which has the capability of generating inherent maintenance task times from the physical configuration of the equipment and descriptions of maintenance task requirements. A validation study of ARMAN's time- and methods-generating capability is described. (Author)