Essential, Closed-Loop Planning, Scheduling, and Execution support tools (ECLiPSE)

ABSTRACT: The Commodities Sustainment Group (CMXG) at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (OC-ALC) is in the process of re-architecting their organization to operate as a production system designed to work like a finely tuned machine. The envisioned machine will be structured in such a way that leadership elements at all levels of the commodities sustainment enterprise can readily assess the status and progress of the workload (e.g., with defined gates, release points, and visual displays) as made visible through true North metrics while providing them with well-defined levers to make timely adjustments (e.g., Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) based control elements). Consistent with this vision, KBSI proposes an effort to attack high payoff opportunity areas within this architecture to support and accelerate sustainment machine deployment. The specific execution model elements targeted include a Metrics-centric (Strategic, Operational, Tactical) element, production control paradigm leveraging a modified Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) element, Visual Displays element, Tools / Tech Data element, and Touch Time (TT) element. The core technology will result in a metric driven viable systems architecture for CMXG that can be reused across the command. The long-term benefit of the proposed effort is the realization of pervasive commodities sustainment system health visibility, insight, management, and control producing sustainable improvements in production capacity. Key words: Viable Systems, Metrics, Systems of Systems, Sustainment Physics, Production Systems, Organizational Architecture, Theory of constraints, Lean production systems, Multi-echelon, echelon, reentrancy, cost savings BENEFIT: The long-term benefit of the proposed effort is the realization of pervasive commodities sustainment system health visibility, insight, management, and control producing sustainable improvements in production capacity.