OmegaPS and Analyzer North American UGM 2013

Speakers and Topics

Pennant Software Services Group November 12 and 13, , Canada Dear OmegaPS and Analyzer Users,

This is your invitation to the 2013 User Group Meeting!

This year the OmegaPS and Analyzer North American User Group Meeting will be held in Ottawa, , November 12 and 13. On Tuesday, November 12 we will have the OmegaPS session day. Wednesday, November 13 will be an all day session for the OmegaPS Analyzer software. As done in the past, Wednesday will also have the OmegaPS and Analyzer Forums.

I am very pleased to announce that Michael Martin representing DND’s Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron (ATESS) will be our keynote speaker.

I wish to welcome our customer speakers, Mr. Parker MacDonald from IMP Aerospace, Ms. Anmarie Flamingo of Oshkosh Defense, and Mr. Greg Van Bavel from Department of National Defence.

As we have in the past, Pennant personnel as well as DND and Commercial users will present various topics with respect to use the software product suite. Pennant personnel will provide insight into our latest development program, how Commercial and DND ILS requirements are synchronized and as always seek feedback from you, the users, to make further improvements to, and more efficient use of, the software products.

We look forward to seeing you in Ottawa!

Brian MacDonald Chief Operations Officer Pennant Software Services Group

Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) In Keynote Speaker The RCAF And Implementation Of MSG-3 In OmegaPS

MICHAEL (MIKE) MARTIN OmegaPS has been enhanced to include a new Functional RCM module. This module enables top- down RCM analysis in accordance with the ATA MSG Mike Martin is a Reliability Engineer currently 3 standard. Mike Martin will explain how ATESS MAC supporting the Maintenance Analysis Centre (MAC) at is using this new module to enable maintenance the Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering reviews. Support Squadron (ATESS) Trenton. He spent 21 Some of the points that will be discussed are: years in the RCAF, serving as a technician and AERE • Scheduled preventive maintenance: Officer in a variety of roles, retiring as a Major to join o Part of aircraft certification the Transport Canada as National Resource Specialist o Highly regulated within civil and military for Reliability in 1994. While at TC, Mike acted as the organizations • Mechanical Systems MRB advisor on a number of General discussion of principles of RCM: o new aircraft certification boards and was a member In-Service equipment performance o Aviation experience of the International MRB Working Group. Mike o Adoption of MSG-3 decision logic returned to DND as a Public Servant in 2002 to head • Steps in performing MSG-3 style RCM up the newly created MAC at ATESS and was o Identification of Maintenance Significant responsible for developing tools and procedures for Items (MSIs) reviewing and amending in-service scheduled o Performance of Functional Failure Modes maintenance programs for RCAF aircraft. Mike has a and Effects Analysis (FMEA) B.ENG in Mechanical Engineering from RMC and a o Level 1 and Level 2 analysis M.SC in Reliability Engineering from the University of o Task packaging Arizona. • Functional RCM (FRCM) in OmegaPS o Functional Structure o MSI selection o FMEA o MSG-3 level 1 / 2 o Task identification • Integration of FRCM with other OmegaPS modules o Use of LSAR data o Electronic Publications (S1000D standard) o Maintenance Task Control (Point of Maintenance)

RCAF on-line Image Gallery

http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/8-wing/index.page ? PRESENTERS Brian MacDonald

Brian joined Pennant in May 2000 on completion FROM of a 30 year career in the Canadian Army. Brian held various operational posts in Canada and overseas as well as several positions in DND equipment procurement projects, retiring as a LCol. Graham Brum Brian was appointed President of Pennant North Graham has worked with OmegaPS Analyzer since America in 2004 and in June 2005 assumed his 1996. While establishing Pennant's business in current position of Chief Operating Officer Pennant Canada, he developed the first commercial product Software Services with responsibility for the under the DND license agreement. As the lead operations of Pennant software companies functional specialist for Analyzer, Graham has worldwide. steered the model's development from those early Brian is a graduate of the Royal Military College of days to provide a comprehensive analytical tool for Canada receiving a Bachelor of Science (Applied) supportability. Graham's expertise in maintenance in 1975. He has attended both the Canadian Land analysis and supportability has emerged through 13 Forces and Canadian Forces Command and Staff years service in the British Royal Navy and then, after Colleges and completed the Royal Military College moving to Ottawa, many Canadian defence contracts. of Science (UK) Army Tech Staff Course (now Under contract to DND, Graham worked on data Masters in Defence Technology). standards and policy documents including writing LSA standard A-LM-505-001 series. Jonathan Patterson Frank Hallam Jonathan served 25 years in the Royal Canadian Navy as a Naval Engineering Officer with a career that Frank has been with Pennant for twelve years. He is spanned the breadth of the materiel organization currently responsible for the Pennant solutions being including HMCS ALGONQUIN Engineering Officer, used at National Defence. He is the Product Manager Arleigh-Burque Production Officer (with the USN), for OmegaPS Analyzer and has lead responsibility for Naval Materiel Supportability Manager (NDHQ), and several modules within OmegaPS. He is also the SAP Supportability Engineering Manager for the Halifax lead at Pennant, as well as being responsible for Class Modernization Project. evolving solutions to meet emerging market standards and Canadian client needs. Upon retiring in 2012, Jonathan joined Pennant Canada as the Supportability Engineering Services Frank is a Professional Engineer with a Masters in Manager and is involved with various projects to Engineering Science specializing in Information assist clients achieve their equipment system support Management. He left the Canadian Navy in 1997 as a and capability objectives. Marine Engineer. While serving, with his interest in Information Management, Frank was involved in Jonathan is a graduate of the Royal Military College of several key IT projects; three dockyard Maintenance Canada with a BEng in Chemical and Material Management Systems and the shore and ship based Engineering, and holds a MSc in Reliability and Configuration Management Information System Quality Engineering from the University or Arizona. (CMIS). Jonathan also has a Sig Sigma Green Belt Certification and is an active member of the Society of Reliability

Engineers.

Pat Read supporting tools to facilitate the LSA process at Oshkosh Corporation. Pat has 40 years combined military/industry Anmarie holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics experience in logistics support, leading maintenance and a Business Foundations Certificate from workshops, Department of National Defence (DND) University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. Anmarie also Equipment Program Management Directorates and holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certification. various equipment acquisition projects. He developed supportability business process models Jeff Switzer for DND and the ISO AP239 PLCS standard. In Pennant, he leads teams enabling Jeff is a seasoned consultant with extensive supportability for DND equipment managers and background in Asset Management, Systems projects. Engineering, Project Management and Process Re- Pat has a BSc (Mech Eng) and post-graduate military engineering. Since 2009 he has been an independent technical/operational staff training. He is a PEng in consultant who has worked on various Pennant Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO); member of contracts. He has aided in provisioning of consulting PMI, NDIA and SOLE; and Past President of the services to targeted public organizations that Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Association included the preparation, presentation and delivery (EMEA), a core organization within the Conference of of analysis, solutions, best practices, coaching and Defence Associations (CDA) in Canada. training in areas of asset management, capital requirement definition and planning, and reliability engineering. GUEST SPEAKERS He has a Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical (First Anmarie Flamingo Class Honours) from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Masters of Science: Reliability, Maintainability and Systems Engineering (4.0 GPA) from the University of Arizona.

Parker MacDonald

Oshkosh Corporation – Defense Product Support Engineering Since joining Oshkosh Corporation in 2007, Anmarie has been involved in a variety of activities ranging from LSAR data development to Technical

Publication development. IMP Aerospace & Defence During her time at Oshkosh Corporation, Anmarie Intermediate Logistics Support Analyst has applied her range of knowledge as a key Mr. MacDonald has a Bachelor of Science in stakeholder in growing Oshkosh Corporation LSA Mathematics from St. Francis Xavier University, capabilities and processes. specializing in Statistics. Since entering the work force Mr. MacDonald has been employed in the Anmarie lead the installation and implementation of Aerospace Defence world in various roles, with the OmegaPS and Analyzer. She continues to develop last eight years spent in the ILS/LSA field. For the past two years he has worked for IMP Aerospace Graham Brum and Frank Hallam providing Engineering Logistics support. Mr. A Reliability Assessment was conducted of fleet MacDonald is an intermediate member of a team of Diesels using all available data. This data was specialists providing logistics engineering for the assessed to provide life time achieved availability. In CP140 Maritime Patrol Aircraft and the CH149 conjunction with this project KPIs were developed Search and Rescue Helicopter programs. for future projects to be used for In-Service Maintenance and Performance Reviews. Greg Van Bavel New Analyzer Capability In Support Of Projects Graham Brum Graham will explain the new functionality that has been added to the latest release of Analyzer including work for both DND and other clients.

OSAM Demonstration Graham Brum OmegaPS Supportability Analysis Module, the Analyzer tool inside OmegaPS, will have its functionality demonstrated by Graham.

http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc114/p534076_A1b.pdf New Analyzer Capability in Support of Projects DND/DMGOR/AST Mr. Van Bavel is a scientist with DND’s Directorate Graham Brum Materiel Group Operational Research (DMGOR) Graham will explain the new functionality that has Acquisition Support Team (AST). been added to the latest release of Analyzer including work for both DND and other clients.

PRESENTATIONS Why Do LSAR? Graham Brum GEIA-0007 REV B The question is often asked “why is an LSAR Frank Hallam important in light of other initiatives like DRMIS and This presentation will discuss this revision of the In-service support contracting. Graham will explain standard and how it will impact OmegaPS. the inherent value of the LSAR. Specifically, what is new and modified in the ILS and Its Standards/Tools application and how to access these items. within an Evolving Equipment DND Configuration Support Environment Frank Hallam There is new functionality developed for DND and its Pat Read and Jonathan Patterson suppliers. This presentation will discuss Embedded ILS was born to meet needs of NASA and USAF in Publications, Illustrated Parts Breakdown System acquisition of totally new and unique systems. Its standards/tools still reflect 1960’s 80-column punch (IPBS), Material Data Protocol expansion (MDP), card data constructs. Today, defense departments are Canadian Forces Technical Orders (CFTO) and others. shifting to performance-based whole life contracting for acquisition/in-service support of often off-the- Reliability Assessment & Key shelf systems and to use of integrated enterprise Performance Indicators – Diesel information systems, within a collaborative internet- Generator enabled information environment. Untangling the complexity of the data requirements The presentation will provide Pennant’s perceptions is the key to making LSAR management simpler and of key ILS transformation thrusts to meet this new more accurate. Through a thorough understanding of paradigm, based on work with the Canadian DND and LSAR requirements, a process with zones for each industry customers. data element can be defined which allows users to track the status and completeness of a candidate Soldier Systems Bid Evaluation item. – A Base Line Jeff Switzer This presentation will demonstrate how OmegaPS Comparison system is a methodology. A Progress Manager and outside tools which interface methodology was developed with the Soldier with OmegaPS via ODBC linking can be used to track Systems project to enable the evaluation of Life Cycle and monitor project status. Costing data sets. Phased Sparing in Analyzer Achieved Platform Availability Parker MacDonald Utility IMP Aerospace & Defence, through its Logistics Greg Van Bavel Engineering Department, provides its main customer, Achievable platform availability is an important the Department of National Defence (DND), with factor in evaluating systems during the acquisition business logistics intelligence that enables informed process. To ensure that feasible performance-based and cost-effective decisions during a weapon accountability (PBA) arrangements are developed system’s life cycle, with the aim of increasing and adopted for in-service support, an effective Operational Availability (Ao). analytical capability must allow the Project Management Offices (PMOs) to carry out productive This presentation focuses on the sparing and Life due diligence. Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis conducted for DND. Ordinarily a sparing or LCC analysis is conducted on a As a centralized technical advice provider to all PMOs set number of prime equipment, with a set number of with respect to modeling and simulation in the area operating hours, for a set number of years. What of advanced Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), the would happen if these set numbers change from year Project Management Support Office (PMSO) tasked to year? How do you forecast the number of spares the Directorate Materiel Group Operational Research required when you begin your analysis with X Prime (DMGOR) Acquisition Support Team (AST) to develop Equipment and end it with Y? the Achievable Platform Availability Utility (APAU) model. The APAU model is intended to be used to To conduct effective sparing and LCC reports, there establish and substantiate PBA requirements during must be a method to merge these various the definition phase of projects and to enable configurations. The answer is to create multiple valuable oversight of the feasibility of proposed configurations and to incorporate the findings into support solutions during the execution phase . one finalized output. This presentation highlights the processes performed, and the outcomes/outputs A Visual Approach to LSAR obtained from applying ILS/LSA Engineering Project Management principles to phased sparing in Analyzer. Anmarie Flamingo Navigating your way through the intricacy of the The ongoing implementation of these outputs LSAR can be difficult. While it is easy to see a truck or ensures an optimal approach towards aircraft airplane being built on the production line, it is supportability and availability in satisfaction of DND difficult to see data being “built” for a candidate item. operational requirements. How do you know where the candidate item is in the process? How do you know when all of the necessary data elements have been collected? REGISTRATION INFORMATION Accommodations This year’s UGM will take place at the Southway Inn, Ottawa, Ontario. Guest accommodations may be booked per the information below. The registration form for attending the event is attached at the end of this document.

If you have any questions please call Lori Reeves at 613-745-3811 or email A block of rooms has been reserved for the UGM [email protected] . Fax registration form attendees at: to 613-745-4206. Southway Inn All participants are responsible for 2431 Ottawa, Ontario their own room reservations and K1V 8R9 costs. Group ID: 713535 Group name: Pennant Canada Telephone: 613-737-0811 or Toll free: 1-877-688-4929 Room Rates: $138.00/night Website: southway.com

Deadline for room reservations is: Monday, 14 October, 2013

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You can take a trip to Parliament Hill to see the seat Average Daytime High: 6° Celsius of Canadian government or experience our national Average Daytime Low: -1° Celsius museums. Maybe you will want to take in a world- Probability of Precipitation: 67% (includes snow and class theatre or musical production at one of the rain) many arts centres or go to an Ottawa Senators hockey game. From the arts fan, to the sports fan, to the shopping fan, Ottawa has something for everyone.

OMEGAPS AND ANALYZER NORTH AMERICAN UGM

12 and 13 November, 2013 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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