MICANTS

1. MICANTS Scenario & Demo Description “A Day in the Life of VMA-513” Scenario by Russ Currer Presented by Greg Nordstrom

2. Overview • Scenario description (Russ Currer) • Demo features • MAPLANT components • Demo sequences (what you will see today) • Description • Demonstration • Follow on discussion

3. Evt 02-1/2 05 11 14 01 08 Evt 05-1/2 Evt 03-1/2 Evt 04-1/2 I-Level Repair Off Aircraft Req’d 14 03 14 03 11 • Supply Status: Req • Mech Available? • Time for R&R? 03 • Radar Altimeter Inop • Supply Status 1 Hour Evt 01-1/2 EVT 02-2 13:00 - 14:20 Capt Evans 1 CA-9, 1 Tatcs PMC/Ctr Line Sta 33 29 06 10 02 14 READY 09 07 16 05 +24hrs Today 14:15 +48hrs 15 +72hrs +96hrs

4. MC/FMC 48/42 MC/FMC 78/70 MC/FMC 92/88 MC/FMC 75/65 VMA-214 VMA-211 VMA-513 VMA-311 • One GTS/APU on hangar deck FOM on AC undergoing Phase Inspection (36 hrs) • Squadrons agree to transfer good unit and reassign supply request to AC in phase • One unit on test bench AWP for a low usage diode • ETR higher level unit: 20 days • Authorization for local purchase • ETR: 5 hours • Total time till RFI: 24hours MAG HQTRS Aviation Logistics Squadron

5. MAPLANT Demo Features • Situational Awareness • Event, aircraft, and maintenance status • “Details on demand” • Collection, Presentation of Execution Options • Scan, analyze, formulate and present choices • Metric-driven decision support options • Enables “Good Enough, Soon Enough” scheduling • Reactive, Incremental Scheduling • Execution mode (rapid replanning) • Optimization mode (daily, monthly schedules) Today’s goals: Show current status, exchange information, convey “the vision,” obtain feedback for improvement

6. Demo Key Players • VMA-513 • Maintenance Control Chief (MCC) • Scheduled Events: • Evt 3 (AC14, AC29) • Evt 5 (AC11, AC33) • Other AC and Events • Workcenter (WC) Supervisor • Powerline • VMA-311 (Sister Squadron) • MCC • MALS-13

7. MAPLANT Components • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager System components Support components (demo only) Future work

8. time MAPLANT Components • MAPLANT “nerve center” • Visual status of scheduled events, AC versus time • Updated dynamically, manually • Assign, unassign AC to events • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager Event section Aircraft section

9. MAPLANT Components • MAPLANT “nerve center” • Visual status of scheduled events, AC versus time • Updated dynamically, manually • Assign, unassign AC to events • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager • Aircraft • White = healthy; no event scheduled • Greens = healthy; event scheduled • Light Yellow = broken; repair scheduled • Yellow = broken; no repair scheduled • Red = broken; event(s) in jeopardy • Text: “Evt#,” “Repair,” “Down,” “Conflict” • Events • Greens = event OK (color map to AC) • Red = event in jeopardy • Text: event# • Context sensitive menus (mouse) time Visual mapping by color

10. Repair action (WUC) selection Aircraft selection • Maintenance strategies • MALS • Barter • Cannibalization • Maintenance action status • Current options • “What if” analysis control • Select/reject proposed action • System messages MAPLANT Components • MCC assigns maintenance actions by AC, WUC • Parts request options • View parts, labor availability • Test, accept, reject proposed maintenance actions • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager

11. MAPLANT Components • Used by WC supervisor to: • View proposed workcenter schedules • View schedule analysis metrics • Recompute schedules • Approve/refuse schedules • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager • Actions scheduled by time • Tooltip for WUC, AC • White = available • Green = scheduled • Red = proposed but not accepted Schedule metrics Maintenance personnel Tabbed viewing of various schedules Approve/Recompute/Refuse

12. AC selector Discrepancy location visualizer Summary of current discrepancies Discrepancy selector MAPLANT Components • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager • Demo component used to: • Select AC, component • Report problem to MCC • For demo/testing only

13. Message log viewer Response time selector MAPLANT Components • Demo component used to: • Monitor part requests and responses • Set MALS part delivery times • For demo/testing only • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager

14. Under Construction MAPLANT Components • MC Event/Status Display • MC Aircraft Repair Manager • WC Schedule Manager • Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter • MALS Comm Center Manager • Optimization Manager • Mode change indicator • Set optimization mode preferences • Flight times, high time engines, training • opportunities, specific AC requests, etc. • Monitor optimization process progress • Select current optimization option(s) • Daily vs. monthly maintenance planning • All help greatly appreciated!

15. Caveats… • Early prototype • MAPLANT framework • Technology demonstration platform • DiscussionWare • Not all MICANTS technology in demo • Based on our understanding of target environment • Mission requirements • VMA-513 daily operations • Lingo • Missing in action… • Troubleshooting, gripe verification times • Turn-around times • Shift change • Post maintenance checks

16. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Gripe As the demo sequence begins, all the day’s events are scheduled with healthy aircraft… MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

17. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter used to indicate AC14 has bad GTS/APU All is well Evt03 in jeopardy Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

18. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action Verified discrepancy transmitted to MCC (troubleshooting and verification time not taken into account in demo) All is well Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

19. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action All is well User opens AC Repair Manager, indicates desire to try MALS Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

20. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Gripe MCC MALS MCC sends parts request to MALS MALS responds to MCC w/ delivery time WCS MALS determines delivery schedule Flt Sched time

21. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Gripe WC responds to MCC with installation schedule MCC MALS MCC contacts WC for installation schedule WCS Flt Sched WC calculates installation schedule time

22. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action All is well MAPLANT determines repair schedule does not meet Evt03 requirements. User given option to adjust flight schedule. Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

23. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action User chooses to replace AC14 with AC03 All is well Gripe User indicates desire to adjust flight schedule MCC MALS MAPLANT determines, displays viable AC14 replacements WCS Flt Sched time

24. Demo Sequence #1 User-guided option Automatic action As the demo sequence ends, all events are again scheduled with healthy aircraft. Schedule indicates all is well… All is well Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

25. Demo Sequence #1 Live demo…

26. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action Aircraft Discrepancy Reporter used to indicate AC03 has bad Radar Altimeter (RA) All is well Evt03 in jeopardy Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

27. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Verified discrepancy transmitted to MCC Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

28. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well User opens AC Repair Manager, indicates desire to try MALS Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

29. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Gripe MCC MALS MCC sends parts request to MALS MALS responds to MCC w/ delivery time WCS MALS determines delivery schedule Flt Sched time

30. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Gripe WC responds to MCC with installation schedule MCC MALS MCC contacts WC for installation schedule WCS Flt Sched WC calculates installation schedule time

31. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well MAPLANT determines repair schedule does not meet Evt03 requirements. User given option to adjust flight schedule. Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

32. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well No ready spares available. AC Repair Manager used to investigate cannibalization. Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

33. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action MAPLANT responds with prioritized list of AC containing functional RA’s that can be cannibalized w/o jeopardizing future events (using MSARs, MALS+WC repair times). All is well Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

34. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well User selects suitable AC for cannibalization Gripe MCC MAPLANT forwards “best” WC schedule to MCC MAPLANT contacts WCS for labor MALS WCS WCS selects “best” WC schedule Multiple WC scheduling options generated Flt Sched time

35. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action All is well MC does “what if” and accepts proposed maintenance action Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

36. Demo Sequence #2 User-guided option Automatic action As the demo sequence ends, all events are again scheduled with healthy aircraft. Schedule indicates all is well… All is well Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

37. Demo Sequence #2 Live demo…

38. Under Construction Demo Sequence #3 User-guided option Automatic action MAPLANT transitions to optimization mode (no scheduling conflicts, low/no activity for a time) All is well Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

39. Under Construction Demo Sequence #3 User-guided option Automatic action All is well User chooses to investigate current optimization recommendations Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

40. Under Construction Demo Sequence #3 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Gripe MAPLANT responds with the following report: MCC Optimization report (0940, 10/13/00) • High time engine detected in AC11 (Evt05) • No qualified unassigned AC found in VMA-513 • AC14 will qualify if GTS/APU repaired/replaced • FOM’d GTS/APU found in VMA-311 • Current AC14 GTS/APU repair options: MALS WCS Negotiate barter with VMA-311 for GTS/APU Flt Sched time

41. Under Construction Demo Sequence #3 User-guided option Automatic action All is well User authorizes barter. Gripe MCC MALS WCS MAPLANT+WCS arrange WC schedule Flt Sched time

42. Under Construction Demo Sequence #3 User-guided option Automatic action All is well MAPLANT updates flight, maintenance schedules Gripe MCC MALS WCS Flt Sched time

43. Under Construction Demo Sequence #3 User-guided option Automatic action All is well Gripe MCC Demo sequence ends with an improved flight schedule. All is better… MALS WCS Flt Sched time

44. Discussion Points • Schedule metrics • Efficiency? Load balancing? • Daily vs. monthly schedule creation issues • Drivers? Goals? Trade-offs? • Negotiation opportunities • ?