Optimised Design and Manning
Wednesday 10th November 2010, 1100hrs–1230hrs
Chaired by Charles Beers Testing Systems Engineering, Supportability, and Readiness Concepts During Trident Warrior 2010 Mr. Joel H. Timm, Naval Sea Systems Command (Port Hueneme Division), United States One of the challenges facing Combat Systems Engineering is the ability to develop and test Next Generation Maintenance concepts to better support the Fleet. Various Distance Support and Business Intelligence tools are currently being evaluated by the Combat Systems In-Service Engineering Agents (ISEA) to support future and in-service systems. Through Fleet experiments, tools and processes used to assess Combat Systems maintainability, supportability, and readiness can be evaluated more effectively. An exercise sponsored by Third Fleet and US Fleet Forces Command called 'Trident Warrior 2010' will test the use of remote monitoring, remote diagnostic, and integration of Business Intelligence processes and tools. The goal of the testing is to assess the value of the informational awareness and mission readiness assessment to the engineering community (In Service Engineering Agents), decision maker (Class Squadrons), and the Fleet (Warfighter). HLA based Simulations to Assess Naval Operations Dr Davide Tozzi, CETENA S.p.A., Italy An exhaustive evaluation of ship’s performances and capabilities is unlikely to be done in the early design phase. In this sense a proper simulation tool can be a valuable solution, giving the possibility to test and validate a wide range of naval operations’ procedures in different environmental conditions for warship requirements assessment. A single simulator can improve its capabilities and usefulness if included in a common environment where more simulators interoperate each other to reproduce the behaviour of a more complex system. This “system of systems” approach finds its applicability in the naval field where a warship can be represented as the cooperation of several subsystems. HLA distributed simulations are the best solution to create and simulate a complex scenario, allowing several simulators and partners to work together just exchanging inputs and outputs, but keeping safe intellectual properties. This framework is very useful because it can be used by the end users to verify the design choices through the simulation of real scenarios. CETENA’s experience in using its HLA based simulator for the development of complex interactive man-in-the-loop federations to evaluate operations like Replenishment At Sea, Landing Craft manoeuvrability, Vertical Take Off and Landing, Small Craft Launch and Recovery, will be presented in this paper. Operational and Maintenance Workload Models Mr. Paolo Amadio, Lockheed Martin, United States Operational and Maintenance Workload Models used in Naval Ship Design and Manpower Optimization Operator Workload and, in particular, Manning and Automation Models are crucial elements in analyzing Navy operational and life-cycle costs, as well as the mission success. Moreover, it appears that an analysis and determination of the different parameters influencing crew size and skills must be done, seamlessly, in conjunction with the very early processes related to new ship design and analysis. This requisite is particularly true when dealing with modular ship designs, when separate and distinct mission modules require largely separate crew tasks and skills. The scope of this paper is to elucidate existing suitable and proven software tools that were developed to assist the Total Ship Integration Team to analyze and model the Crew Billet in the context of a particular Operator and Maintainer Workload circumstance. By and large, the Operator Workload Model (OWM) and the Total Crewing Workload Model (TCWM) are stochastic, discrete event simulation tools that provide repeatable, objective and quantifiable answers to operator and maintainer workload and the ability of a crew to achieve mission success. In particular, the paper outlines and expounds the concept related to Human Systems Integration in the areas of Manpower/Crewing Analysis, Human Factors Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Finally, the paper will dwell on the OWM ultimate objectives of optimizing crew size while maintaining ship capability, save resources (personnel, funding, facilities, etc.), make decisions based upon objective metrics, reduce risk and support system engineering trade studies (allocation of tasks to humans or automation, roles of personnel and number/schedule of personnel).
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I met with key NATO naval and maritime military and got good technology updates.
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Joel Timm
Future Fleet Concepts Analyst, NAVSEA, USA
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