Advanced Life Cycle Modelling and Simulation Solutions

Advanced simulation-based life cycle performance prediction tools provide a comprehensive, mathematically sound means of forecasting requirements to better control and manage life cycle uncertainty across a diverse and global fleet. Sean Connors, CEO/ President of Clockwork Solutions, explains:

Clockwork Solutions provides a high fidelity performance prediction and risk management approach that provides return on investment across major industrial companies, military organisations and government agencies throughout the world.

Logisticians and sustainment planners require advanced tools to predict and reveal maximum machine and fleet productivity while striving to minimise the total life cycle cost of ownership. Predictive modelling and simulation tools allow forward thinking decision-makers to apply discrete event simulation techniques to predict the behaviours of complex systems at a future time, exposing the effects of equipment ageing, maintenance policies, operating assumptions and other environmental scenarios that might otherwise go undiscovered.

Tools for success

ATLAST™ - Advanced Life Cycle Simulation Technology Designed to Incorporate Transactional MRO data in order to Improve Requirements Forecasting for Complex Systems and Equipment

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ATLAST

Advanced Total Life-cycle Assessment Software Tool, (ATLAST) is a complete simulation model that provides systems managers and logisticians with a comprehensive approach to modelling the dependencies between an asset’s ability to achieve desired operations and the ability of the repair and supply capabilities to respond to the demands resulting from those operations.

By equipment groups, part numbers and even down to unique serial numbers, managers and logisticians can forecast and quantify life cycle costs and impacts due to decisions regarding equipment configuration changes, remaining-life rules modifications, alternative sparing strategies, adjusted operating programmes, modified repair concepts and age/reliability factors. In addition, opportunities to reduce costs and improve overall asset performance can be assessed. Users need only concern themselves with changing inputs under analysis, running life cycle simulation and evaluating life cycle impacts.

VisualSPAR

Visual SPAR™ - Rapid Application Technology Supporting Comprehensive Systems Availability Modeling

The newly released VisualSPAR modelling platform implements Rapid Application Development (RAD) technology for creating simulation models. VisualSPAR is designed to streamline the entire modelling process, from model construction and verification, organising scenario analysis studies, and reporting and presenting model results. Simulation models can be easily integrated into Microsoft Office and VS.NET applications, including connectivity to standard database formats such as Oracle, SQL and Access.

VisualSPAR provides the systems life cycle modeller with significant benefits, including:

• Highly flexible modelling and simulation environment
• Easy deployment of model applications for end-users
• Comprehensive and efficient model debugging functionality
• Database connectivity
• Easy integration with Microsoft Office applications
• Capability to merge separately developed models, and
• Built-in optimiser.

SPAR-PHMTM - Proportional Hazard Simulator Leverages Data from Health & Usage Monitoring Systems to Evaluate Future Risk of Downtime Occurrences

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SPAR-PHM

A third software product in the Clockwork Solutions toolkit addresses the risk associated with a specific vehicles’ ability to complete a planned period of operation without the occurrence of a maintenance event.

SPAR-PHM provides a basis for identifying factors (co-variates) influencing ageing and degradation of equipment. Its enhanced capabilities provide risk-based notifications of pending faults, criticality and sensitivity analysis and help to map an optimised remove and replace maintenance plan prior to vehicle use.

Basis for industry solutions

The defence industry represents one of the most complex systems in existence today. Aircraft, missiles, ground vehicles, ships and numerous leading edge technologies must perform to their designed functions and interoperate, so that mission objectives can be met. The interrelationships are so complex that simulation-based approaches are an effective means of generating high fidelity models and representations of reality to support wise and cost-effective decision-making.

SPAR-based applications have a higher fidelity record in supporting performance/support/cost trade studies in new system design, as well as acquisition and strategic planning, sustainment planning and operational/ tactical planning.

Clockwork is rapidly becoming a recognised and valuable technology and professional solutions provider for numerous military systems life cycle managers. Services are provided in the areas of performance based logistics risk modelling and other areas of sustainment planning and analysis. Clockwork Solutions are helping clients globally to maximise equipment and systems availability while striving to minimise risk and costs across a system’s operations and maintenance life cycle.

Email: info@clockwork-solutions.com

Website: www.clockwork-solutions.com

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