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Tapestry to Showcase its Leading Information Management Technologies at West 2018 Expo; GOLDesp MRO Demos Featured in Boeing Booth #1425

February 5, 2018

Tapestry Solutions, a Boeing Company, will showcase its premier information management technologies to the maritime community at the WEST 2018 conference and exhibition, which runs Feb 6-8 in San Diego. Among the presentations, Tapestry representatives will demonstrate the industry-leading GOLDesp MRO & Supply software in the Boeing booth #1425. Boeing’s exhibit will feature the theme, “Cross Domain Innovation for Tomorrow’s Forces.”

Tapestry’s GOLDesp is the #1 tri-service software that modernizes Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul & supply operations for complex assets operating in land, air, sea and space environments. The combat-proven software  provides total lifecycle support and reduces sustainment costs for high-value assets such as vessels, tactical jets, UAVs, military transports, commercial helicopters, air defense and space systems.

Key customers include the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Special Operations Command, and several international partner nations including the U.K, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman. Major defense contractors and OEMs have also widely adopted the technology as a key element in their defense sustainment strategies.  The Boeing Company uses GOLDesp for the majority of its Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contracts, including support for the C-17 Globemaster III and the AH-64D Apache Longbow.

 In addition to GOLDesp, Tapestry representatives will highlight the following capabilities at WEST 2018:

  • TECHNICAL AND MISSION SUPPORT SERVICES, including support for the U.S. Navy’s Tactical Mobile (TacMobile) program. TacMobile provides fixed-site and mobile Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) capability warfighting capability for the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force, or MPRF. The program supports pre-flight mission planning, in-flight data processing, post-flight data processing and analysis for the P-3C and P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol/reconnaissance aircraft.
  • ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT, featuring Enterprise Sensor Integration (ESI). ESI provides the platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) for defense, commercial and government customers by intelligently connecting people, processes and data to improve asset visibility and situational awareness across the entire enterprise. The sensor-agnostic solution connects various data sources onto a common platform, regardless of sensor type or brand. This helps organizations control the chaos when faced with a growing number of disassociated sensor technologies and networks that manage supply chain and manufacturing operations.
  • DEPLOYMENT & DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGIES, highlighting the Integrated Computerized Deployment System (ICODES) program that serves over 20,000 users within the Department of Defense (DoD). ICODES and its commercial variant, GOLDesp Load Planner, provide end-to-end supply chain visibility of cargo load plans, including distribution forecasting and planning for ships, aircraft, railcars and trucks/trailers. First deployed by the U.S. Transportation Command in 1997, ICODES has served as the single load planning capability for the DoD since 2007.

Tapestry Solutions, Inc. is a global provider of information management software and services for defense, government and commercial markets. Backed by our parent company, The Boeing Company, we help solve logistics challenges for the world’s largest and most complex supply chains. We also provide mission planning, training and simulation support to maximize readiness for our warfighters. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Tapestry supports customers from more than 50 locations around the world, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Afghanistan, Kuwait, the UK, South Korea, Australia, Germany and Italy.

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Media Contact:
Janet Dayton
Marketing Manager
tapestrymarketing@boeing.com

Filed Under: Press Releases, Recent News Tagged With: AFCEA, GOLDesp, Military Maintenance, Navy, TacMobile ESI

How Advanced Maintenance & Supply Software like GOLDesp Reduces Risks & Costs Associated with Cannibalization of Military Equipment

January 14, 2018

Faced with budget cuts and a shortage of spare parts, military forces often resort to the inefficient maintenance practice of cannibalization – a strategy in which serviceable parts are removed from one complex asset to satisfy the operational needs of another higher-priority asset.

Although discouraged, cannibalization has long been a routine practice for military Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) organizations. It is particularly widespread for aircraft maintenance, as units work to maintain readiness on aging fleets at a time of increased deployments.

Cannibalization is usually practiced whenever it’s faster to harvest a component from existing equipment than it is to order the part from the supply system. Once this action is complete, an order is created to replace the component taken from the donor asset.

Drawbacks to Cannibalization

Although cannibalization may be beneficial on a very limited and controlled basis, the practice of systemic cannibalization actually decreases readiness, and increases maintenance and supply chain costs.

A heavily cannibalized A7 Corsair on display at the Russel Military Museum in Illinois.

By executing cannibalization, units are increasing their maintenance requirements, risking additional maintenance downtime due to incorrect fault identification and/or faulty repairs, and creating added supply chain turbulence. Furthermore, cannibalization can actually reduce the life of components.

However, an integrated maintenance and supply solution like GOLDesp MRO & Supply addresses these challenges. Developed by Tapestry Solutions, a Boeing Company, GOLDesp provides total lifecycle support for complex assets operating in land, air, sea and space environments.

GOLDesp ensures total asset visibility, giving operators a heightened awareness of the whereabouts, condition and availability of all components. With a click of a button, operators can determine whether an asset is on a shelf in a warehouse, installed on an end item, or is midstream through the repair cycle. This allows users to quickly assess alternatives to cannibalization.

Why Cannibalization Increases Costs & Risk

By providing superior tracking and automated workflow of all activities, GOLDesp reduces the risks and costs associated with cannibalization. It also limits unnecessary cannibalization activities and improves operational readiness of equipment. Here’s how:

  • Cannibalization Increases Maintenance Workloads
    It increases workloads by effectively doubling the amount of MRO work necessary, compared to simply installing a delivered part. The asset takes twice as long to repair and additional quality inspection is required for the removed part. This significantly increases personnel labor hours and costs.
  •  Cannibalization Renders Expensive Assets Unusable Temporarily
    The donor equipment’s airworthiness and/or availability is reduced following cannibalization, affecting the donor assets’ future mission readiness. Failure to track the exact components removed can result in safety and/or financial issues due to inoperable equipment.
  •  Cannibalization Can Result in Mechanical Side Effects
    The physical act of removing components from complex assets is also problematic. In executing the removal and replacement, technicians may damage the components or connected systems. For example, removing fuel lines within engines to access fuel regulators or pumps may result in damage to the fuel system, increasing future maintenance costs and down time.

Systemic cannibalization is a symptom of poor maintenance management, lack of supply and maintenance integration, inadequate scheduled maintenance practices and the faulty quality assurance/control.

How GOLDesp Limits Cannibalization Risks

When cannibalization is absolutely necessary, GOLDesp limits risks through automated workflow, inventory management, total asset visibility and supply chain integration. The commercial-off-the-shelf software provides superior recordkeeping and tracking for all cannibalization activities in the following ways:

  • GOLDesp tracks all cannibalization activities and assets impacted to determine if cannibalization is appropriate. If so, the cannibalization action can only be performed after a part request has been created, and it has been determined that no items are available in supply inventory. A work order is then created, documenting the process and capturing required sign-offs.
  • GOLDesp ensures cannibalization is controlled and traceable. Approval authority for cannibalization is an important management step for an exchange. Authority to cannibalize assets is controlled by role-based security and approvals, which require electronic certification (E-Cert) signatures. The need for sign-off authorization, and the level of authorization required, can be determined for each GOLDesp customer site.
  • GOLDesp streamlines processes, including the creation and linking of records and work orders. This includes enabling access to past and current cannibalization records. Thus, all actions are traceable, reducing delays during future MRO of the donor equipment.
  • GOLDesp provides automated notifications of back-orders. If a replacement part becomes back-ordered, GOLDesp will immediately notify maintenance control personnel, who in turn, can then set the status of the equipment to “Not Mission Capable-Supply,” or NMCS, and make a determination on whether or not to cannibalize the part.
  • GOLDesp provides quality assurance/quality control process flows, ensuring that all testing and quality assurance/quality control is integrated as part of the repair process. Inspections are required and must be completed through use of authorized signatures by qualified, certified personnel.

This applies to processes ranging from flight certification to scheduled and unscheduled maintenance to component repair. GOLDesp guides the required process flows and ensures that the right people are engaged at the right time to achieve the best readiness outcomes.

Material Forecasting and DoD Supply Chain Integration

GOLDesp’s material forecasting capabilities ensures spares are readily available to support maintenance activities. This minimizes the need for cannibalization by accurately identifying requirements for new parts in advance, while reducing stockpiling of unnecessary spares.

GOLDesp’s material forecasting module examines past consumption in order to forecast future consumption and stock levels. It automatically correlates past consumption with completed maintenance/repair work orders over a specific period, supporting minimum and maximum ordering requirements. GOLDesp also:

  • Manages scheduled maintenance, reserves parts required directly from work orders and automatically replenishes stocks based on usage and demand forecasting
  • Automatically alerts maintenance managers to scheduled inspections and repairs
  • Provides a fleet level view of equipment readiness that allows operational and maintenance managers to make the right resource allocation decisions at the right time
  • Seamlessly interfaces with the U.S. military’s supply system. The software automates key processes that allow users to order material from the U.S. Department of Defense via Foreign Military Sales’ MILSTRIP processes. This includes automatic generation of military (MILS) requisitions, cancellations and amended messages.

Mission Accomplished with GOLDesp

In summary, GOLDesp ensures mission readiness by eliminating and/or mitigating cannibalization practices, thereby ensuring maximum equipment availability – whenever, wherever assets are needed. Above all, GOLDesp gives maintenance officers confidence in their logistics system and business practices by providing the right data needed to make the right decisions, and maximizing their resources to accomplish their missions.

The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information
does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.

Contact:

Janet Dayton
Tapestry Solutions Inc.
tapestrymarketing@boeing.com

 

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Filed Under: Blog Posts Tagged With: Aircraft Maintenance, Cannibalilzation, GOLDesp, Military Logistics, Military Maintenance, Military MRO

Tapestry Introduces Training and Certification Program for GOLDesp Maintenance Management Software

October 13, 2017

Tapestry Solutions is pleased to announce the launch of a comprehensive certification training program for its GOLDesp Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) software. The training program is designed to help users increase proficiency and technical knowledge of the maintenance management software, and at the same time, improve productivity and increase utilization of GOLDesp within their organizations. The courses will culminate in valuable certification to help users advance their careers.

The training includes a mix of classroom instruction, instructor-led virtual courses and self-paced E-learning modules. The program kicks off on Oct.30 with the first course: “Making the Most of GOLDesp Queries and Status Boards.”

For more information about the training program, please visit Tapestry’s GOLDesp Training Website.

ABOUT GOLDesp

As the leading military MRO software solution, GOLDesp provides planners, maintainers and logisticians with the desktop tools they need to optimize GOLDesp MRO & Supplymaintenance & supply management of complex assets. The enterprise-level software is specifically designed for aftermarket logistics support and Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) management of high-value assets operating in land, air, sea and space environments.

A Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) solution, GOLDesp significantly improves maintenance efficiency and asset utilization. Its automated workflow tools enable maintenance crews to manage each step of the MRO process to reduce repair cycle times and increase availability of the assets.

Key customers include the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Special Operations Command, and several international partner nations including the U.K, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman. Major defense contractors and Original Equipment Manufacturers, or OEMs, have also widely adopted the technology as a key element in their defense sustainment strategies.

To learn more, watch our GOLDesp video.

Filed Under: Blog Posts Tagged With: aviation maintenance, GOLDesp, Military Maintenance, Military MRO, MRO

Tapestry Expands GOLDesp Product Suite to Include Capabilities for Transportation Movements, Accommodations and Fuel Management

June 29, 2017

Tapestry’s GOLDesp MRO & Supply software – the #1 tri-service logistics solution for sustainment of complex assets – has expanded its product suite to include transportation movements, accommodations management and fuel management systems. The new enhancements include:

  • MOVE Transportation Management System, which is designed to manage the lifecycle of the transportation movements. This includes planning, manning and coordinating cargo movements – supported by automated workflow processes that monitor the execution of the movement delivery process. All user inputs are validated along with error detection messaging.

  • ACCOMMODATIONS Management System, which is used for controlling, managing and assigning military base quarters. The quarters may be either single rooms, houses or other real estate owned by the services.

  • FUEL Management System, which streamlines processes for managing the lifecycle of bulk petroleum products. It includes receiving, issuing, quality checks, storage and inventory management for ground and aviation operations. It also can be used with a mobile handheld device via a web service to perform fueling operations such as fuel inventory, fuel receipt, fuel issue and Quality Assurance (QA) checks.

 ABOUT GOLDesp MRO & SUPPLY

GOLDesp MRO & Supply is the #1 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software solution for sustainment of complex assets. GOLDesp helps customers manage maintenance, supply, repair and Performance Based Logistics (PBL) for complex assets in air, space, sea and ground environments.

The software provides total lifecycle support for assets including manned and unmanned air platforms, support equipment, combat vehicles, air defense missiles and space systems – including one of the world’s most complex assets, the International Space Station, under the administration of Boeing.

GOLDesp manages each step of the MRO & Supply process to reduce repair and supply-cycle times and costs. It features automated workflow tools that enable maintenance crews to accurately track and manage inventory through the supply chain.

GOLDesp technology has been successfully implemented as a tri-service logistics management solution by military organizations in Europe, the UK, the Middle East and Asia. Our MRO software has also been widely adopted by defense industry contractors and OEMs as a key element in their aftermarket in-service sustainment strategy.

 

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Uncategorized Tagged With: DoD, GOLDesp, Military Maintenance, MRO, Supply Chain

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