MAINTENANCE PLANNING
Maintenance planning begins early in the purchase stage with the development of the maintenance concept. It is conducted to evolve and establish requirements and tasks to be accomplished in achieving, restoring, and maintaining the operational capability for the life of the system.
 

SUPPLY (SPARE PARTS) SUPPORT
Supply support encompasses all management actions, procedures, and techniques that are related to spares.
 

SUPPORT AND TEST EQUIPMENT
Support and test equipment includes all equipment, mobile and fixed, that is required to perform the support functions, except that equipment which is an integral part of the system.
 

MANPOWER AND PERSONNEL
Manpower and personnel involve identification and acquisition of personnel with skills and grades required to operate and maintain a system over its lifetime.
 

TRAINING SUPPORT
Training support encompasses the processes, procedures, techniques, training devices, and equipment used to train personnel to operate and support a system. This element defines qualitative and quantitative requirements for the training of operating and supporting personnel throughout the life cycle of the system.
 

TECHNICAL DATA AND PUBLICATIONS
Technical Data and Technical Publications consist of scientific or technical information necessary to translate system requirements into discrete engineering and logistics support documentation. Technical data is used in the development of repair manuals, maintenance manuals, user manuals, and other documents that are used to operate or support the system.
 

COMPUTER RESOURCES SUPPORT
Computer Resources Support includes the facilities, hardware, software, documentation, manpower, and personnel needed to operate and support computer systems and the software within those systems. Computer resources include both stand-alone and embedded systems. e.g. Our Diagnostic Expert System
 

FACILITIES
The facilities, logistics element is composed of a variety of planning activities, all of which are directed toward ensuring that all required permanent or semi-permanent operating and support facilities (for example, training, field and depot maintenance, storage, operation, and testing) are available concurrently with system fielding. Planning must be comprehensive and include the need for new construction as well as modifications to existing facilities. It also includes studies to define and establish impacts on life cycle cost, funding requirements, facility locations and improvements, space requirements, environmental impacts, duration or frequency of use, safety and health standards requirements, and security restrictions. Also included are any utility requirements, for both fixed and mobile facilities, with emphasis on limiting requirements of scarce or unique resources.
 

DESIGN INTERFACE
Design interface is the relationship of logistics-related design parameters of the system to its projected or actual support resource requirements. These design parameters are expressed in operational terms and specifically relate to system requirements and support costs of the system. Programs such as "design for testability" and "design for discard" must be considered during system design.