The Future of Maintenance

Plan & Schedule

Planning for the Navy’s inventory and its staging in the global network of warehouses is a hugely complex operation. In the Digital Warehouse, Planning is enabled by the Control Tower which gives deep insight into demand signals, current inventory levels, and availability of materiel for rapid resupply. Planning includes the forecasting of inventory, resources, and equipment demand while scheduling puts the warehouse orders of those requirements into place. Working in conjunction with program and production managers will allow for accurate planning and scheduling of parts, equipment, and resources to perform the scheduled maintenance task. Digital technologies and sensors throughout the supply chain and warehouse network enable program planners to optimally stage key materiel in strategic locations and keep low-volume materiel from using valuable space.

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icon_ControlTowergreen_SVG Control Tower
icon_AIMLgreen_SVG Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
icon_AutoDeliverygreen_SVG Robotic & Intelligent Automation
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Control Tower

Control Tower can provide warehouse managers and engineers a summary dashboard to illuminate current warehouse operations volume and metrics. It will also connect the Shipyard, Depot, Warehouse, and Workforce environment enabling deep visibility into the availability of materiel, personnel, and work centers to support maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations. Control Tower enables visibility into future operations allowing planners to ensure the key materiel is available to support maintenance operations. It also gives planners the ability to analyze actual historical consumption and balance that with future demand signals to proactively position inventories so maintenance can occur immediately upon asset induction.

Want to learn more? Read more here: The Supply Chain Control Tower

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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML)

AI/ML can analyze inventories to optimize storage and slotting of parts based upon historical and future demand trends. AI/ML can also view the daily demand and perform resource and equipment planning to optimize warehouse staff and positioning to promote just-in-time operational planning and execution.

Want to learn more? Read more here: Crafting an A.I. Strategy for Government Leaders

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Robotic & Intelligent Automation (R&IA)

Upon triggering of the “low stock” alert and queue created from sensor-driven replenishment, R&IA executes against those alerts by automatically creating warehouse tasks that can be fulfilled either by Automated Vehicles (AVs) or operations staff. R&IA thrives on repeatable tasks with little variation. During a non-peak period for outbound operations, the replenishment tasks are released by the floor manager for completion by operations staff.

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Sensor-driven Replenishment

Digital Tracking significantly augments the accuracy of inventory location and status. Planners can use precise inventory levels and locations to perform better forecasting and operate a leaner supply chain with greater readiness levels. Planners can identify shortages of critical materiel far in advance and activate the acquisition cycle to prevent stock outs. Within the warehouse, primary storage locations are equipped with sensors to monitor stock levels. A sensor is triggered when stock has fallen below the designated threshold and a “low stock” alert is triggered and queues a replenishment task and purchase order to the planner. Using this technology allows the sensors to autonomously monitor stock levels to keep primary bins full and outbound operations efficient while streamlining the planning processes.

Want to learn more? Read more here: Smart Sensors and Supply Chain Innovation

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Welcome to the Future of Maintenance Microsite

The digital transformation of the Nation’s depots, shipyard, and warehouses will leverage next-generation technology for everything from intelligent operations management and advanced manufacturing to digital supply network synchronization. Personnel at all levels will be better enabled to succeed in their roles through the introduction of these technologies. This digitally-transformed infrastructure will establish an architecture for the Navy to lead its mission readiness capabilities into the future.

This tutorial will provide an overview of the Microsite’s functionality to understand the benefits and potential application of these technologies. Click on the slides below to learn how to navigate the site, otherwise close this window to start exploring. Site best viewed in Chrome or Edge browsers.

Digital Warehouse Perspectives

Click on the text below to learn more about each role. 

Define my role: Define what I care about (metrics, KPIs):
  • Monitor warehouse for inventory levels, customer fulfillment, and network operations
  • Review stock level reporting
  • Run reports for costing goods/inventory and performance
  • Review financial reports for federal tracking
  • Inventory Availability
  • Order Fulfillment
  • Order Accuracy
  • Throughput
  • Warehouse Utilization (Cubic Storage)
Define my role:Define what I care about (metrics, KPIs):
 
  • Maintain inventory within the warehouse and coordinate delivery to the end point customers
  • Initiate Stock Replenishment
  • Receive, Inspect, and Put-Away
  • Pick and ship material based on customer order
  • Inventory Accuracy
  • Task Cycle Time
Enabling Technologies

A key part of digital transformation of the Nation’s depots, shipyards, and warehouses are the enabling technologies that provide the foundation for the various technologies used throughout maintenance and logistics operations. These enabling technologies ensure connectivity, enable enterprise-wide visibility, and provide the security needed for system stability. Click on the text below to learn more about each role.

A 5G network provides the connectivity that is essential when employing a broad web of interconnected technologies. A 5G network increases the speed of data transfer, lowers latency issues, increases the bandwidth capabilities, and increases the capacity of data that can be sent.  
Cybersecurity supports the protection from cyber threats for all internet-connected systems such as the hardware, software, and stored data. Strong cybersecurity systems protect against unauthorized access to the sensitive information stored within military data systems.  
A Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution integrates organizational data, systems, and processes. This allows artisans and depot managers to access the technical data and product specifications needed as well as create and monitor digital twins for repaired parts and weapons systems. 
Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) solutions use a model based approach to support the setup of a complex system from initial concept to ongoing operational analysis. Using an MBSE approach supports orchestrating the combination of several complex systems and deepens the understanding of processes through integrated analytics. 
Robotic and Intelligent Automation (R&IA) can drive efficiency across manual and repetitive processes. Automating tasks reduces back logs and creates time for staff to work on more value-add tasks. Given the large number of tasks that need to be performed across the shipyards, depots, and warehouses this will free up the artisans and managers to focus on higher complexity, higher value tasks. Automation can also drive analytics for leadership to make more informed decisions. 
Control Tower provides deep supply chain data visibility through intuitive and innovative dashboards. Control Tower tools enable deep dives of data analysis to understand the reason for changes behind key performance indicators and augment problem solving and continuous process improvement. Control Tower capabilities can help proactively manage supply chains in real time, allowing leaders to focus on the most critical supply chain segments, while the rest of the supply chain can continue functioning in a business-as-usual fashion. A comprehensive Control Tower provides the visibility across the entire shipyard, depot, and warehouse to view the current state of all processes and quick identification of any pain points or areas requiring action by leadership. 

Control Tower

Six months prior to an aircraft arriving at the depot and during normal on aircraft maintenance at the 0-level, depot artisans perform a conditional maintenance inspection of the aircraft. Data from this inspection is used by various maintenance systems to plan for all logistics support required to complete its future heavy maintenance event. It also provides information to production managers concerning the amount of time as well as artisan skill sets required to perform that work. This information is used to determine proper staffing levels for future work. While finalizing the repair plans for that aircraft, the depot production manager receives two automated alerts from the Control Tower regarding potential issues to depot operations. The first alert indicates throughput of an assembly cell has dropped and the second forecasts supply shortages of critical parts needed to fix the aircraft based on the digital aviation supply data feed. Based on the alerts, the production manager addresses critical personnel shortages in the assembly cell and coordinates with other agencies to develop a plan to alleviate the projected parts shortages.  

Want to learn more? Read more here: The Supply Chain Control Tower

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