MAP-01-011 HFI Technical Guide - Human Factors Integration ...

Chapter 16 – Maintenance and SupportEarly consideration of external and internal hull design and material specification,together with surface coating policies, should be instituted in a policy documentwith the aim of minimising the ship husbandry workload. The contents of such apolicy will have a direct influence upon the achievement of reduced manpowertargets.As the design of the platform progresses, task analysis and task synthesismethods are used to define the extent of the husbandry workload. The results ofthis process in turn helps to refine the complement estimates. Havingestablished the task and workload requirements, an aim should be to defineperformance parameters against which ship husbandry tasks can be assessed.This will enable better specification of ship husbandry design requirements to bemade.HFI Technical IssuesFigure 16-3: Planned maintenance taskThe quantification of maintenance workload uses information provided byPlanned Maintenance Schedules and Availability, Reliability and Maintainability(ARM) characteristics of equipment, both of which are subject to policy decisionswithin the platform project. Access to equipment for maintenance is also aconcern, as are certain maintenance commonality requirements across allequipments and systems in order to minimise training and enable operatormaintainerroles.Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) and Human Factors Integration (HFI) arecomplementary processes and the advice contained in this chapter needs to beread in conjunction with the ILS policy for the equipment and platform.Nov 2006 Page 16-5 Issue 4