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2003

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Statistical Process Control: An Application In Aircraft Maintenance Management, Bradley A. Beabout Mar 2003

Statistical Process Control: An Application In Aircraft Maintenance Management, Bradley A. Beabout

Theses and Dissertations

Maintenance management at the 135th Airlift Wing, Maryland Air National Guard desires a visualization tool for their maintenance performance metrics. Currently they monitor their metrics via an electronic spreadsheet. They desire a tool that presents the performance information in a graphical manner. This thesis effort focuses on the development of a visualization tool utilizing two of the seven tools offered by Statistical Process Control (SPC). This research demonstrates the application of p-charts and Pareto diagrams in the aircraft maintenance arena. P-charts are used for displaying mission capable (MC) rates and flying scheduling effectiveness (FSE) rates. Pareto diagrams are then used …