Joint UKCeB/MOD Support Chain Seminar

Integrated Support Planning: The importance of maintenance as the key cost driver

16 October 2014

BAWA Bristol Joint UKCeB/MOD Support Chain Seminar 2014

Welcome back to BAWA Bristol and the Support Chain Seminar 2014.

Maintenance – scheduled and unscheduled – drives the great majority of support requirements and is thus the key determinant in support costs, which are in turn the single largest component of Defence costs. If we can master the maintenance drivers then we will be mastering the key cost driver in Defence. The discipline begins with designing equipment that is reliable from the outset, as well as supportable through life, minimizing and easing the maintenance that is necessary to operate the equipment. Thereafter, optimizing the maintenance and planning effectively to achieve it will ensure the minimization of costs across the support spectrum: fleet size, manpower requirements, facilities, publications, ongoing technical support, and materiel.

Excessive inventory – a contemporary Defence imperative – is a symptom of failing to master effective maintenance planning to drive the rest of the support solution. Successful maintenance engineering ensures predictable inventory demand, through sound understanding and assessment and planning and forecasting. Recent efforts to reduce inventory through positive action to restrict procurement has had significant success. However, for sustainable improvement, a truly integrated approach to logistic support is required. Key to this is maintenance planning.

The Seminar is aimed at leaders and senior managers and influencers responsible for delivering successful support through the strategic and operational planning phases of equipment and support programmes and projects in the Front Line, DE&S and Industry. Nevertheless, and to ensure both a rich discussion and mutual benefit, support professionals at all levels are most welcome to contribute to debate as well as to learn from experience.

In the seminar we will be exploring how maintenance regimes can be designed and implemented successfully, using modelling to provide service levels that meet or exceed customers’ expectation, while minimizing the cost of providing the service by procuring only that which is needed and consuming what is bought. We will hear about the progress that is being made on the journey to achieving the vision of providing more effective, agile and affordable support to the UK front line forces. An Industry perspective will be provided by BAE Systems Land and Lockheed Martin UK. We will hear about the issues facing maintainers in Front Line Commands and the work being done to improve coherence within on the Defence Support Network. SCS14 Schedule

Timing Presentation Title Speaker 08.30-09.00 Registration and Refreshments 09.00-09.05 Welcome and Introduction Steve Shepherd, Executive Director UKCeB 09.05-09.25 MOD Keynote - TBC Andrew Cannon Brookes, Dir Inventory Management Ministry of Defence 09.25-09.45 Industry Keynote - TBC Mark Kronenberg, Vice President Business Development Boeing Defence UK 09.45-10.15 Defence Support Chain Management Gp Capt Malcolm French, Head of Support Chain Engagement - The Campaign Plan Ministry of Defence 10.15-10.45 Costing for Availability Dr Linda Newnes, Head of Costing Research University of Bath 10.45-11.15 Refreshments 11.15-11.45 Innovative approaches to improving Dr John Erkoyuncu Maintenance Cranfield University 11.45- 12.15 Maintaining the Fleet on Operations Col Martin Court, Chief Engineer Land Equipment Ministry of Defence 12.15-12.45 ASD S4000P International Specification for Stefan Schiele, Engineer Aerospace Technologies developing and continuously improving Airbus Defence and Space preventive maintenance 12.45-13.05 Q & A Panel Steve Shepherd, Executive Director UKCeB 13.05-14.10 Lunch 14.10-14.15 Welcome Back 14.15-14.45 Integrated Support Planning: – The Keith Alderton, Head of Support Engineering at Combat importance of maintenance as the ke