Logistics Engineering & Management

by Blanchard, Benjamin S.

• ISBN13: 9780131429154
• ISBN10: 0131429159
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-08
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

An authoritative exploration of logistics management within the engineering design and development process, this book concentrates on the design, sustaining maintenance and support ofsystems.The volume provides complete coverage of reliability, maintainability, and availability measures, the measures of logistics and system support, the system engineering process, logistics and supportability analysis, system design and development, the production/construction phase, utilization, sustaining support and retirement phases, and logistics management.For those interested in logistics engineering and management.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	ix
PREFACE	xi
1. INTRODUCTION TO LOGISTICS	1	(45)
1.1 The Current Environment	2	(2)
1.2 The Scope of Logistics	4	(7)
1.3 The Elements of Logistics	11	(4)
1.4 Logistics in the System Life Cycle	15	(6)
1.5 Performance-Based Logistics (PBL)	21	(3)
1.6 The Need for Logistics Engineering	24	(3)
1.7 Related Terms and Definitions	27	(17)
1.7.1 System Engineering 28 1.72 System Analysis	30	(1)
1.7.3 Supportability Analysis (SA)	30	(2)
1.7.4 Concurrent/Simultaneous Engineering	32	(1)
1.7.5 Software Engineering	32	(1)
1.7.6 Reliability (R)	33	(1)
1.7.7 Maintainability (M)	34	(1)
1.7.8 Maintenance and Support	35	(2)
1.7.9 Human Factors (Ergonomics)	37	(1)
1.7.10 Safety and Security	37	(2)
1.7.11 Producibility	39	(1)
1.7.12 Disposability	39	(1)
1.7.13 Configuration Management (CM)	39	(1)
1.7.14 Total Quality Management (TQM)	40	(1)
1.7.15 System Effectiveness (SE)	40	(2)
1.7.16 Life-Cycle Cost (LCC)	42	(1)
1.7.17 Cost-Effectiveness (CE)	43	(1)
1.8 Summary	44	(1)
Questions and Problems	44	(2)
2 RELIABILITY, MAINTAINABILITY, AND AVAILABILITY MEASURES	46	(32)
2.1 Reliability Measures and Related Factors	47	(11)
2.1.1 Reliability Function and Failure Rate	47	(5)
2.1.2 Reliability Models and Component Relationships	52	(6)
2.2 Maintainability Measures and Related Factors	58	(14)
2.2.1 Maintenance Elapsed-Time Factors	58	(10)
2.2.2 Maintenance Labor-Hour Factors	68	(2)
2.2.3 Maintenance Frequency Factors	70	(2)
2.2.4 Maintenance Cost Factors	72	(1)
2.3 Availability Factors	72	(1)
2.3.1 Inherent Availability (Ai)	72	(1)
2.3.2 Achieved Availability (Aa)	73	(1)
2.3.3 Operational Availability (A0)	73	(1)
2.4 Summary	73	(1)
Questions and Problems	74	(4)
3 THE MEASURES OF LOGISTICS AND SYSTEM SUPPORT	78	(45)
3.1 System Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs)	78	(11)
3.1.1 System Effectiveness (SE)	79	(2)
3.1.2 Economic and Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) Factors	81	(6)
3.1.3 Cost-Effectiveness (CE)	87	(2)
3.2 Supply Chain Factors	89	(3)
3.3 Purchasing and Material Flow Factors	92	(2)
3.4 Transportation, Packaging, and Handling Factors	94	(5)
3.5 Warehousing and Distribution Factors	99	(2)
3.6 Maintenance Factors	101	(16)
3.6.1 Organizational Factors	101	(1)
3.6.2 Spares, Repair Parts, and Related Inventory Factors	102	(11)
3.6.3 Test and Support Equipment Factors	113	(1)
3.6.4 Transportation and Materials Handling Factors	114	(1)
3.6.5 Maintenance Facility Factors	115	(1)
3.6.6 Computer Resources and Maintenance Software Factors	115	(1)
3.6.7 Technical Data and Information System Factors	116	(1)
3.7 System Retirement and Material Recycling/Disposal Factors	117	(1)
3.8 Summary	117	(2)
Questions and Problems	119	(4)
4 THE SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROCESS	123	(68)
4.1 Definition of Problem, and Needs Analysis	125	(2)
4.2 System Feasibility Analysis	127	(1)
4.3 System Operational Requirements	128	(11)
4.4 Maintenance and Support Concept	139	(7)
4.5 Identification and Prioritization of Technical Performance Measures (TPMs)	146	(4)
4.6 Functional Analysis	150	(12)
4.6.1 Functional Flow Block Diagrams (FFBDs)	154	(1)
4.6.2 Operational Functions	155	(1)
4.6.3 Maintenance and Support Functions	156	(1)
4.6.4 Application of Functional Flow Diagrams	157	(5)
4.7 Requirements Definition and Allocation	162	(11)
4.7.1 Allocation of Reliability Requirements	163	(6)
4.7.2 Allocation of Maintainability Requirements	169	(3)
4.7.3 Allocation of Logistic Support Requirements	172	(1)
4.7.4 Allocation of Economic Factors	172	(1)
4.8 System Synthesis, Analysis, and Design Optimization	173	(7)
4.9 System Test and Evaluation	180	(7)
4.10 Summary	187	(1)
Questions and Problems	188	(3)
5 LOGISTICS AND SUPPORTABILITY ANALYSIS	191	(65)
5.1 The Analysis Process	193	(11)
5.2 Analysis Methods and Tools	204	(36)
5.2.1 Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)	204	(7)
5.2.2 Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)	211	(5)
5.2.3 Fault-Tree Analysis (FTA)	216	(5)
5.2.4 Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA)	221	(6)
5.2.5 Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)	227	(5)
5.2.6 Level-of-Repair Analysis (LORA)	232	(5)
5.2.7 Evaluation of Design Alternatives	237	(3)
5.3 Supportability Analysis Applications	240	(3)
5.4 Logistics Management Information (LMI)	243	(3)
5.5 Summary	246	(1)
Questions and Problems	246	(10)
6 LOGISTICS IN SYSTEM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT	256	(63)
6.1 The Design Process	257	(16)
6.1.1 Conceptual Design	257	(1)
6.1.2 Preliminary System Design	258	(1)
6.1.3 Detail Design and Development	259	(14)
6.2 Related Design Disciplines	273	(28)
6.2.1 Design for Reliability	273	(8)
6.2.2 Design for Maintainability	281	(4)
6.2.3 Design for Human Factors and Safety	285	(7)
6.2.4 Design for Producibility	292	(1)
6.2.5 Design for Quality	293	(2)
6.2.6 Design for Disposability	295	(1)
6.2.7 Design for Economic Feasibility	296	(3)
6.2.8 Design for the Environment	299	(2)
6.3 Supplier Design Activities	301	(1)
6.4 Design Integration, Design Review, and System Evaluation	302	(8)
6.5 System Test and Evaluation (Validation of the Logistics and Support Infrastructure)	310	(3)
6.6 Design Changes and System Modifications	313	(2)
6.7 Summary	315	(1)
Questions and Problems	316	(3)
7 LOGISTICS IN THE PRODUCTION/CONSTRUCTION PHASE	319	(31)
7.1 Production/Construction Requirements	320	(7)
7.2 Industrial Engineering and Operations Analysis	327	(5)
7.3 Production/Manufacturing Operations	332	(3)
7.4 Quality Control	335	(4)
7.5 Measurement and Evaluation of Production Capability	339	(1)
7.6 Transition from Production to Customer (User) Operations	340	(5)
7.7 Summary	345	(1)
Questions and Problems	346	(4)
8 LOGISTICS IN THE SYSTEM UTILIZATION, SUSTAINING SUPPORT, AND RETIREMENT PHASES	350	(22)
8.1 System Support Requirements	351	(2)
8.2 Assessment of Logistics Capability	353	(14)
8.2.1 Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting	353	(5)
8.2.2 Evaluation of Logistics Elements	358	(9)
8.3 System Modifications	367	(1)
8.4 System Retirement	368	(1)
8.5 Summary	369	(1)
Questions and Problems	369	(3)
9 LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT	372	(61)
9.1 Logistics Program Planning	373	(14)
9.1.1 Logistics in the System Life Cycle	373	(4)
9.1.2 Development of Specifications	377	(2)
9.1.3 Development of Planning Documentation	379	(8)
9.2 Development of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)	387	(1)
9.3 Scheduling of Logistics Tasks	388	(10)
9.4 Cost Estimating and Control	398	(2)
9.5 Major Interfaces with Other Program Activities	400	(4)
9.6 Organization for Logistics	404	(24)
9.6.1 Customer, Producer, and Supplier Relationships	405	(1)
9.6.2 Customer Organization and Functions (Consumer)	406	(1)
9.6.3 Producer Organization and Functions (Contractor)	407	(15)
9.6.4 Supplier Organization and Functions	422	(3)
9.6.5 Staffing the Organization	425	(3)
9.7 Management and Control	428	(2)
9.8 Summary	430	(1)
Questions and Problems	431	(2)
APPENDIX A: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY	433	(10)
APPENDIX B: SYSTEM DESIGN REVIEW CHECKLIST	443	(15)
APPENDIX C: SUPPLIER EVALUATION CHECKLIST	458	(7)
APPENDIX D: LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS (LCCA)	465	(31)
APPENDIX E: MAINTENANCE TASK ANALYSIS (MTA)	496	(24)
APPENDIX F: SELECTED INTEREST TABLES	520	(11)
APPENDIX G: NORMAL DISTRIBUTION TABLES	531	(3)
APPENDIX H: ABBREVIATIONS	534	(4)
INDEX	538