RMSP Courses:
Many RMSP short courses can be provided in a corporate setting. Please contact Russ Vacante (russv@comcast.net) for specific information on any of the courses listed on the reference file.
The following courses are listed in alphabetical order by the Instructor’s surname.
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Performance-Based Logistics (PBL)
PBL is a package of sustainment interfaces and system effects that will provide a level of significant system capability, reliably predicted for a set of operational tasks at a commitment of support funds to the yield budget and to deliver that capability with continuous support and system capability through its planned life. This course provides a dynamic, real-time learning environment oriented toward developing a range of life cycle logistics and product support competencies. It challenges participants to review what they think about traditional contractingpolicies and practices versus the new requirements.
Duration: 3 days
Product Support Integration in a Performance Based Logistics Environment
Thorough course integrates principles and practices of Performance Based Logistics (PBL) in the context of the planning resposibilities of the Product Support Integrator (PSI). Highlights key PBL concepts and motivation for government and industry to improve sustainment strategies for defense weapon systems. Summarizes Department of Defense directives and guidance concerning PBL implementation and describes examples from new systems and legacy sub-systems. Includes techniques for meeting requirements for scheduling, prioritization, analysis, and forecasting.
Instructor: Edward Herger
Duration: 3 days
Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A)
RM&A provides an overview of acquisition policy and its application in the
design, development, and deployment of equipment and systems. The goal is
to understand and be able to use the concepts of life cycle management,
performance-based life-cycle sustainment, emphasizing total ownership cost,
materiel availalbility, materiel reliability, and mean down time.
Instructor: Edward Herger
Duration: 3 days
Program Technical Data Management/Integrated Data Environment
This course describes the steps required to build a data library (technical
manuals, drawings, provisioning technical data) for a given program; to cover
the life cycle phases one by one; what data is collected and what data is
provided. The course will focus in on the concept of design for sustainment and the Total Lifecycle Cost of Ownership (from initial product design to retirement) and the associated influence of design and quality Product Data Management.
Instructor: Tony Myers-Burton
Duration: 2 days
ERP / Impact to ILS Applications
Education of course attendees with regard to the impact of Navy ERP on Integrated Logistics and associated systems. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the benefits and impacts of Navy ERP on NAVSEA Integrated Logistics and associated systems.
Instructor: Tony Myers-Burton
Duration: 1 day
Implementing Performance Based Logistics
Fast-paced course integrates principles, policies and practices for implementing Performance Based Logistics (PBL) through enhanced Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability. Highlights key PBL concepts and motivation for government and industry to improve sustainment strategies for defense weapon systems. Summarizes Department of Defense directives and guidance concerning PBL implementation and describes examples from new systems and legacy sub-systems. Incorporates interactive team exercises to reinforce key activities like selecting a Product Support Integrator and developing Performance-Based Agreements. Also includes demonstration of additional PBL learning resources.
Instructor: Steve
Brown
Course Duration: 1 day
Reliability Engineering: Design for Reliability (DFR)
The objectives
of this workshop include:
| 1) | Defining reliability and when to apply reliability into the design effort; |
| 2) | Translating failure data into basic reliability information; |
| 3) | Explaining the various reliability distributions including the Weibull distribution basics; |
| 4) | Describing how to make reliability better and the various methods of reliability testing. |
You will benefit from this training by learning how to reduce product warranty costs, improve customer satisfaction through detailed requirements specifications, develop test plans as part of the Product Development Process (PDP) that minimize risks, and provide accurate budgets with decreased development cycle times meeting program schedule goals and customer commitment dates.
Instructors:
Lou Gullo, Ari Jain, Vlad Crk, Sam Keene
Course Duration: 1 day
A Top-Level, Integrated Approach to Supportability Engineering
The logistician
faces many questions: When and what Supportability Analyses are needed? How
do I make, communicate and document the logistics supportability decisions
necessary to effectively & efficiently support the system? How can I generate
defensible supportability engineering requirements compatible with my logistics
supportability decisions? What further supportability tasks & data are
needed in subsequent phases to lower logistics risk? How do I get these on
contract? Can [and should] logistics risk be further reduced by testing before
system deployment/fielding? How should I effectively interface with the design
engineers, program managers, budgetary analysts, contract specialists and
testers to accomplish all this and more in the normal course of the systems
acquisition process?
Good logistics is disciplined common sense. A totally integrated effort is
necessary to conceive, determine, defend, and implement a logistics support
program. This session demonstrates a common sense tool that provides the discipline,
traceability and [more importantly] ability to integrate and defend the components
of a solid supportability program. This session will first introduce the tool
and then apply the tool to a contemporary case study that will address real-world
challenges and applications.
Instructor: Paul
McIlvaine
Course Duration: 1 day
Managing Design for Reliability
To manage the design process which aims at writing clear system specifications to ensure reliability of the total system including the integration with maintainability, system safety, human factors, and logistics. Program will include intensive hand-on in-class exercises.
Instructor:
Dev Raheja or Lou Gullo
Duration: 2 days
System Safety: Principles and Best Practices
To implement system safety principles proactively and efficiently. This combination of lectures and workshops is intended for beginning level engineers and intermediate level practitioners in design and safety. Technical managers in all engineering fields will find it a good overview of system safety.
Instructor:
Dev Raheja
Duration: 2 days
Reliability for Systems of Systems
Introduce students
to the current concepts of Systems of Systems as they are being used in evolving
DoD programs and the requirements for implementing these concepts, as they
are needed. Explain key concepts associated with the relationships between
a Family of Systems and a System of Systems and understand the motivations
linked to a suggested Federated System of Systems environment. Discuss capably
the requirements for developing DoD
Architecture Framework Products that account for more than the material solution,
as well as System of Systems solutions that that consider the user and stakeholder
in addition to the policies and procedures.
Instructor:
James Rodenkirch
Duration: 1 Day
Relating RMS to Improving Readiness & Reducing LCC
Type of Session: Lecture with e-mail of Presentation Slides to Customer
Provide an understanding of Reliability, Availability and Supportability and discuss available Army RMS tools applicable in DoD acquisitions that optimize system supportability. This promotes the use of Performance Based-Logistics (PBL) macro-metrics to improve system readiness and reduce Life Cycle Costs.
Analyzes steady state peacetime or wartime operations, but not a wartime combat pulse.
You will:
- Understand Materiel Availability and its relationships to Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability (RMS).
- Understand the impact of supply and maintenance logistics chains on Materiel Availability and Logistics Response Times.
- Understand how Government furnished models in acquisitions can improve supportability and systems engineering analysis to reduce Life Cycle Cost.
- Be introduced to OSD PBL macro-metrics and Business Case Analysis modeling in acquisitions.
- Understand how to optimally handle quantity discount pricing offered in production procurements and be provided with a tool to expedite decision making.
KEY CONCEPTS:
- Use of Materiel Availability in acquisitions is a key to making supportability a co-equal to cost, schedule and performance in acquisitions.
- Operational Availability is a PBL acquisition metric that can only be measured by models prior to fielding.
- Sparing to availability optimization models already exist and should be used in acquisitions to improve supportability, systems engineering RMS analysis, and life cycle cost reduction.
- Applying Business Case Analyses is a key to impacting Cost Effectiveness in system acquisitions.
MEASUREMENT OF OUTCOMES:
- No Tests are given to the students for the 6 hours of lecture and discussion. A questionnaire will be provided to measure how the course went and feedback potential course presentation or content improvement.
STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS:
- a. Prior to Course: None
- During Course: Liberally ask questions if need points clarified.
- OTHER USEFUL REFERENCES: Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) and Supportability material in Defense Acquisition University website.
Instructor:
Bernard Price, C.P.L.
Duration: 8 hours
