Super Lynx courtesy Agusta Westland
Innovative approach to providing greater availability of defence equipment
How can we achieve better defence equipment availability? That was the question faced by EADS Test & Services - part of the second largest defence and aerospace company in the world.
In a world where large quantities of ageing - or obsolete - equipment need ever-increasing maintenance, it isn’t an easy question to answer. Recent operations in remote regions, where availability may be the key to success, has certainly focused the attention of senior military personnel. Traditional 1st to 4th line repair strategy has now been described as ineffective and out of date. Responsibility has
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increasingly been pushed back to the original equipment manufacturers, with contracts that demand greater availability across many different types of equipment. This significant shift in responsibility now places a much greater challenge well and truly with the supplier.
It became clear that, although contracting for availability offered greater business risk to industry, it
also offered genuine opportunities. Take, for example, the common problem of returning possibly faulty components for repair when they are in fact serviceable. Known in the service world as “No Fault Found”, the situation normally arises because the actual faulty component is difficult to identify, meaning that any possible cause needs to be removed and/ or replaced. In many cases, the
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