Date of Award

12-1991

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

First Advisor

Craig M. Brandt, PhD

Abstract

The first objective of this study was to identify all the common supply items currently being managed separately in the inventory of the various types of aircraft employed by the Brazilian Air Force, and to show how the system could be reorganized to consider the compatibility among these items. DBASE III programs were used to examine a file with 30103 registers containing part numbers occurring more than once in different aircraft's inventory, and to classify them in groups of identical items likely to be centrally managed. In addition, it was demonstrated that the system's structure would support the proposed reorganization without deep changes. The second issue in this thesis was the appropriateness of creating a system based on the dependent demand concept, that would enable the Brazilian Air Force's depots to predict the consumable items necessary to carry out their maintenance tasks with more accuracy. A conceptual program in QUATTRO PRO, which uses basic principles that would apply in the development of such a system, was written to show that the information necessary to create the proposed system is already available, and to show its usefulness for the depots.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GLM-LSM-91S-4

DTIC Accession Number

ADA246656

Comments

The authors' Vita pages are omitted.

Presented to the Faculty of the School of Systems and Logistics

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