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Traditionally military and civilian fleet management organizations have been designed to separate the maintenance function from the operations function as much as possible. This minimizes the need for exchange of information between operations and maintenance. The limited control available through current information management resources has justified this separation. Because real time information systems have become more powerful and less expensive, different approaches to the design of fleet management organizations have become practical. A new approach, mission-oriented maintenance, looks at the entire fleet management organization as an integral system and optimizes this system toward the primary mission. To this end it redefines the interaction between operations and maintenance. It maximizes overall flexibility and develops a new set of objectives for maintenance. The result is a system that gives maintenance a clear understanding of its role within the overall mission and significantly improves fleet availability for operational purposes. The approach is applicable to the maintenance of any fleet. It can also be used for stationary equipment operated in large numbers to accomplish one goal (e.g., power generating equipment in an electric utility). A mission-oriented maintenance program is developed for the air force of a small country. The procedures used in this development are outlined and some results are presented. An outline is also given for a mission-oriented maintenance approach to public transportation fleets.

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Transportation Research Record

63rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

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Aircraft; Maintenance management; Management information systems; Military aircraft; Military vehicles; Public transit; Strategic planning; Vehicle maintenance

Aviation; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I95: Vehicle Inspection

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