by Ad min | Jun 18, 2018 | Articles
Download this article as a PDF Any reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) practitioner worth their salt will be able to wax lyrical about how vital understanding the operating context is to a successful analysis but… What of the context of the RCM study itself? …...
by Lee Fitzsimons | Jun 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Warning: This video contains some poetry! That poem is based on a parable and in that parable a passing wise man comes to help the blind stitch together the fragments of the picture. ILS, as a discipline, is the wise man. It stitches together the quagmire of disparate...
by Laura-Jayne | Mar 20, 2018 | Analytics, Data, Supportability Engineering, Technology, Training
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by Laura-Jayne | Aug 10, 2017 | Software, Technology
← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home This video is from our ILS Seminar in June 2017: Paul Messer and Lee Fitzsimons talk about automated reporting from technical data sources (in this case, our Maintenance Analysis package; A*) using Epic, an XML...
by Guest Post | Jul 24, 2017 | Analytics
← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home Is the model right? As Matthew said in a recent blog, “It is often explained that all models are wrong, just some are less wrong than others.” I agree wholeheartedly, and believe that this is necessarily so. The...
by Laura-Jayne | Jun 26, 2017 | Analytics
← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” Richard Feynman Picture the scene… Months developing a simulation model of a support chain, chasing...
by Lee Fitzsimons | Jun 16, 2017 | Articles
Download this article as a PDF Understanding the risk posed by the interaction of functionally unrelated systems; are we, as those responsible for deriving preventive maintenance for aircraft, missing the point? The Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom (UK MoD)...
by Lee Fitzsimons | Jun 5, 2017 | Supportability Engineering
← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home ‘You take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.’ Title quote credit: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Director: David Zucker. Performer: Leslie...
by Peter Stuttard | May 28, 2017 | Technology, Training
← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home “Why do we need to train our Military Maintenance engineers?” This short piece is adapted from a presentation delivered back in 2012, in that presentation I corrupted the “Reductio ad Absurdum” concept somewhat,...
by Peter Stuttard | May 8, 2017 | Supportability Engineering
← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) in the 21st Century – Innovation, Pragmatism and the Art of the Possible A free seminar for members of the MoD This event has now passed. If you would like to hear about...