Areas of applications

OPUS10 is widely used for planning spare part supply and logistics support solutions for technical systems on a strategic and/or tactical level.

OPUS10 is currently used by hundreds of customers world wide. The applications range from airline parts supply to offshore platforms; from military aircraft to high speed trains; from nuclear plants to infantry training equipment.

The following are some of the main areas of application:

Spares optimization

This is a core OPUS10 capability which performs an analytical calculation of the optimal assortment and allocation of spares from a cost-efficiency perspective. Initial sparing as well as optimal re-allocation and/or replenishment of existing spares assortments can be performed. OPUS10 is used to optimize most types of spare parts, but is is particularly suited for handling expensive slow moving spares and repairable spare parts (rotables).

Evaluate alternative support organizations

Comparing different alternatives is easily made in the OPUS10 C/E (Cost/Efficiency) curve diagram. Each alternative is shown as a separate C/E curve with its optimal spares assortments given a particular support budget. As most significant costs sources are included in the model, a true comparison of the total cost for different alternatives can be done. This makes OPUS10 a very powerful tool for comparing different support organizations. For example, one may compare solutions with central vs. regional warehouse or transportation by truck (longer lead times and therefore more stock) vs. flight (more expensive but faster and therefore less stock).

Evaluate alternative system designs

In the same way as described for “alternative support organizations” above, a comparison is easily made between different system configurations. For example, when choosing between two components performing the same function, is it more economical from a cost perspective to select the expensive component with low failure rate, or a cheap one with a higher failure rate?

LSC analysis – acquisition or design

During acquisition or design of an advanced technical system, a Life Support Cost (LSC) analysis is an important part of the total Life Cycle Cost (LCC) calculation. This may be used during design and development or when comparing different tenderers.

Determine optimal location of repair (LORA XT)

The choice of repair/discard strategies and optimal repair locations is a common problem area within maintenance planning and logistics support. The location of the repair affects the investment in repair resources, lead times and the required stock levels. OPUS10 is the first and only tool to offer system based location of repair analysis that is done simultaneously with the spares optimization. This means true optimization of repair locations and that different solutions can be justly compared. Furthermore, OPUS10 can be used to evaluate whether to repair or scrap a certain item on failure

“What-if” and sensitivity analysis of maintenance and supply concepts

OPUS10 makes it very easy to evaluate effects of changes in a scenario. For example, it is possible to evaluate how…

…a new customer or support contract…
…a customer’s minimum stock requirement…
…increasing fleet size with 25%…
…increasing operation with 25%…
…increasing failure rates with 25%…
…reduced lead times…
…reduced repair turn around times…
…lateral support…

…will affect costs and efficiency of a solution.

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