Conference Documentation: Defence Maintenance (2008)

Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd

Published: Oct. 16, 2008

Table of Contents

DAY 1

8.30 Registration & Coffee

9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Francis Tusa, Editor, Military Logistics International.

9.10 Military MRO and Defence Maintenance Market Trends

Analysis of defence maintenance and MRO spending

Challenges of outsourcing maintenance and logistics support

A look to the future of the market

How maintenance may evolve to network enabled capability

Hal Chrisman, Principal, AeroStrategy.

9.50 World Class Maintenance and Maintenance Valley

The concept of Maintenance Valley

The concept of World Class Maintenance

Importance of Public Private Partnerships in Military MRO

Colonel Johan Kaelen, PPP Project Officer, Logistics Centre, Royal Netherlands Air Force.

10.30 Morning Coffee

11.00 Managerial Innovations in Maintenance Partnerships

RNLN -

From information exchange to actual partnership - a strategy for international cooperation

International models and standards - from theory to implementation

Portuguese Navy -

Organisational challenges in maintenance management

The need for international partnership - the M Class Frigate Group (MFG)

RNLN / Portuguese Navy -

Improving partnership in maintenance management - innovation as the tool for sustainability

Albert Stam, Head of Maintenance Engineering, Royal Netherlands Navy Maintenance Establishment.

Lieutenant Commander Sérgio Silva Pinto, Portuguese Delegate at the M-Class Frigate Group, Portuguese Navy.

11.40 Defence Helicopter Maintenance

The challenges

Getting the most out of your fleet

Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Eerlingen, Commanding Officer, Helicopter Wing, 255 Maintenance Group, Belgian Ministry of Defence.

12.20 Networking Lunch

1.50 Aircraft Support in the French Air Force

Organisation of aircraft maintenance

Incorporation of the A400M into the French fleet

Responsibility to maintain airworthiness

Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Freydefont, Head, Aircraft Support Division, Technical and Logistics Support Department, French Air Force.

2.30 Load Usage Monitoring of the C-130 in the Royal Netherlands

Loads and Usage Monitoring Programme

Tools for optimising maintenance

Challenges and requirements

Marcel Bos, Senior R&D Manager, Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR).

3.10 Afternoon Tea

3.40 Maintaining the Joint Force Harrier

Depth support challenges

Structure and benefits of industry partnerships

Risks and opportunities

Commander Roy Welburn, Harrier Depth Support Wing, RAF Cottesmore, UK.

4.20 Supporting the UK’s Frontline Helicopters

MRO of the Chinook, Lynx and Sea King helicopters

Vector's operational transformation in support of the MoD's roll back of helicopter support

Boeing / Vector development of MoD TLCS programme for RAF Chinook, as a model for rotary wing support

Trevor Pritchard, Business Development Director, UK, Vector Aerospace International.

5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

DAY 2

8.30 Registration & Coffee

9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Francis Tusa, Editor, Military Logistics International.

9.10 Organizational and Intermediate Level Maintenance for the F-15

Supporting USAFE, USEUCOM and NATO commitments

Maintenance training programmes

Ensuring readiness for operations

Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Finnegan, Commander, 48th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, US Air Force.

9.50 Maintaining the C-17 Globemaster- Public Private Partnerships

Supporting the RAF at Brize Norton

Fully integrating with military maintainers

Providing engineering, supply support and supportequipment

maintenance services

Providing consistent maintenance

Bob Rabbitt, Engineering Manager, C17 Field Services IPT, RAF Brize Norton, UK.

10.30 Morning Coffee

11.00 IT Enabled Performance Based Logistics

Real time collaboration and total asset visibility across all organizations (from operations and maintenance, through supply chain, back to the OEM or PBL provider)

Tracking and reporting reliability and cost data

Handling the requirements of geographic distribution and leveraging the productivity potential of automation, wireless, and other technologies

Greg Goodall, Director, OEM & Defense Sales, Mxi Technologies.

11.40 Air Engineering Training for UK Helicopters

Supporting the Royal Marines of 3 Commando Brigade

Training for field maintenance

Rotary specific maintenance challenges

Commander Jim Donnelly, Senior Aircraft Engineer, Commando Helicopter Force, Royal Navy, UK.

12.20 Networking Lunch

1.50 Support Engineering and the Supply Chain

Supportability Engineering and Management

Logistics Information Transformation Programme

Support Engineering Process

Stephen Hunt, Member of the UKCeB Task Force, UK Council for Electronic Business (UKCeB).

2.30 OCCAR’s Life Cycle Cost Initiative

Overview and status of LCC in OCCAR Programmes

How to breakdown cost structure and assess support scenarios

Life cycle costs in the A400M and the Tiger

Franck Ramaroson, Integrated Logistic Support Officer, Programme Management Support Division, Organisation for Joint Armaments Co-Operation (OCCAR-EA).

3.10 Improving Availability and Planning Certainty with Health & Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) in Military Land Systems

An examination of the benefits to be achieved from

gathering health and usage information in the military land

environment

A review of the exploitation of Health & Usage Monitoring

Systems in the defence land environment

The contribution of HUMS and Prognostics to improved

maintenance planning and logistic support

Wing Commander (Ret'd) Chris Hockley, Defence College of Management & Technology, Cranfield University.

3.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks, Afternoon Tea and Close of Conference

Abstract

• Overview of Market Trends in Defence Maintenance and Military MRO
• Managerial Innovations in Maintenance
• Aviation and maintenance support for NATO Countries
• Supporting Front-line Equipment
• Support Engineering and the Supply Chain
• Product Life Cycle Support
• Asset Management Control
• Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS)

• Colonel Johan Kaelen, PPP Project Officer, Logistics Centre, Royal Netherlands Air Force
• Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Freydefont, Head, Aircraft Support Division, Technical and Logistics Support Department, French Air Force
• Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Finnegan, Commander, 48th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, US Air Force
• Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Eerlingen, Commanding Officer, Helicopter Wing - 255 Maintenance Group, Belgian Ministry of Defence
• Commander Jim Donnelly, Senior Aircraft Engineer, Commando Helicopter Force, Royal Navy, UK
• Commander Roy Welburn, Harrier Depth Support Wing, RAF Cottesmore, UK
• Lieutenant Commander Sergio Silva Pinto, Portuguese Delegate at the M-Class Frigate Group, Portuguese Navy
• Albert Stam, Head of Maintenance Engineering, Royal Netherlands Navy Maintenance Establishment
• Franck Ramaroson, ILS Officer, Life Cycle Cost Manager, Organisation for Joint Armaments Co-operation (OCCAR-EA)
• Bob Rabbitt, Engineering Manager, International Hub, C-17 Field Services IPT, RAF Brize Norton, UK
• Marcel Bos, Senior R & D Manager, Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR)
• Wing Commander (Ret'd) Chris Hockley, Defence College of Management & Technology, Cranfield University

• Francis Tusa, Editor, Military Logistics International

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