CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 April 2008
Implementation Investments
Eurostep Limited Contracted by the UK Defence Logistics Organization
Eurostep Limited has been contracted to help the UK Defence Logistics Organization further develop Logistic Information Plans for the A400M Military Transport Aircraft and the Type 45 Frigate.
The PLCS and OAGIS standards have been selected by UK MoD for use on all new equipment and support contracts. The business benefits from using PLCS are explained in the Technology White Paper Standards-based PLM: Re-engineering the Aftermarket with PLCS, Part 1 Business Benefits. OAGIS (http://www.openapplication.org) is a related standard for supply chain transactions.
Work on the Type 45 will identify where these standards could most effectively be applied to support the Frigates in service, when "Contracting for Availability" (CfA). The aim is to identify which exchanges offer the greatest potential for early cost savings and quality improvements, in the context of the introduction of the Type 45 Frigate into service.
On A400M, which is also exploring a CfA approach, the aim is to identify, and to provide guidance on costing, all of the steps involved in progressing:
- from a high level definition of an information exchange of interest (such as those described by the information flow arrows in MoDs' Logistic Coherence Information Architecture (LCIA) model)
- to a fully developed information exchange agreement, based on a PLCS Data Exchange Set (DEX).
For more information about DEXs, please download Standards-based PLM: Re-engineering the Aftermarket with PLCS, Part 2 Technologies and Deployments..
The work will draw heavily on Eurostep's experience in developing PLCS, the LCIA and the Through Life Support Standard, which UK MoD are developing as a potential replacement for DEF STAN 00-60, and will support activity within the UK MoD to bring these initiatives together.
For more information about Eurostep's work for the UK Defence Logistics Organization please contact John Dunford.
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