The integrated logistic support standard

To sum up, the S3000L specification for logistic support federates all the activities pertaining to any product or system, from its inception to the very end of its life and every single step in between, including development, operation, maintenance, optimization, improvement, and scrapping. Ultimately, S3000L deals with every element that could impact its industrial use.

Thus, there exist various stages in the S3000L LSA process which come into existence through:

• The SLA Process

This process consists in a series of analyses based on data relating to operation and system support requirements, on configuration standards and on the tree structure that derives from the design.

• The Logistical Tree Structure

This tree structure is the translation of the product breakdown into a tree structure relevant to maintenance. This approach remains complicated as it shows various requirements and a different purpose in terms of conception as far as the design office is concerned.

• The Selection of the LSA Candidate

The list of LSA candidates is subjected to an action-oriented selection process based on matrices of value, depending on a number of eligibility criteria.

Within this process, value is awarded to the candidate based on support objectives and on the effort required for the analysis to be carried out.

• The Selection of the LSA Analysis Tasks

Starting from the list of successful LSA candidates, the type of analysis will need to be selected based on an index suggested by the S3000L specification logistic support solution.

A summary will be carried out, which will make it possible to assess the effort required and to determine the workload for the corresponding analysis.

• Triggering Events Analysis

At the very first stages of a system’s inception, not everything is absolutely set in stone. The project could even be incomplete, which means that the maintenance plan is still in a draft state.

S3000L allows this step to affect – for each of the system’s elements – one or more triggering elements or events required by the maintenance process for said element.

These triggering events can be naturally occurring ones (failure or outage, damage, preventative) or based on needs (corrective or preventive maintenance, or both) and on the origin of the analysis.

• LSA Studies

In order to carry out the analysis itself, it is necessary to define its form and its content – which is to say that document templates will need to be provided for every type of analysis – to use the logistic tree structure selected, to identify the connection between the analyses, and to optimize efforts on value-added analyses.

• LSA Progress Conference

This is when the progress of the LSA and BLSA project is shared with the client and when the results of the analysis are consolidated within the BLSA.