AES has the proven ability to provide engineering services in support of process and product improvement. We have found a particular niche in identifying and qualifying new technologies that provide substantial improvements to products and processes, while reducing lifecycle costs associated with systems sustainment.
AES can analyze and re-engineer your processes and systems, with particular focus on:
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Technology qualification and insertion |
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Replacing/refurbishing obsolete or unsupportable hardware |
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Eliminating process bottlenecks and non-value-added activities |
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Reducing process variation |
Supportability Analysis
An integral part of the AES Systems Engineering process is supportability analysis, including comparison of commercial and organic cost-effectivness. This ensures delivery of systems that more readily accommodate commercial, open-standard products with longer lifetimes and less volatility than systems having design controlled by DoD.
Flexible Sustainment (FS) Processes
AES has pioneered processes that provide lifecycle support for existing systems - without the expense of continual developmental investments. This effort begins at program initiation and continues throughout program development ("Design for Support").
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Reliability Based Logistics (RBL), which suggests that increasing the inherent reliability of a system can result in significant reduction of the maintenance support structure. RBL is intended to assist the program managers in developing the best "design for support" solution. |
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Trigger Based Asset Management (TBAM), which recommends assessment of fielded systems trends and a re-examination of the maintenance plan when "triggers" (such as changes in reliability or maintainability trends, a change in technology, or diminishing resources) are detected. TBAM is a cost-effective tool to enable the team to "support the design". |
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