Maintenance Training Simulators Design and Acquisition: Summary of Current Procedures
Maintenance Training Simulators Design and Acquisition: Summary of Current Procedures

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Published: 1979

Total Pages: 88

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This technical report is the first in a series that will explore the problems of maintenance training simulation design and acquisition. It is focused on the existing procedures followed by Air Force personnel in performing Instructional Systems Development (ISD) analyses to define maintenance training equipment requirements, and by System Program Office (SPO) Training Equipment Acquisition Managers in accomplishing training equipment procurement. Later reports in this series will structure appropriate functional specifications for the acquisition of maintenance training simulators, will present handbooks to guide ISD analysts in selecting appropriate types of maintenance training equipment and in designing and documenting required maintenance training simulator characteristics and features, and to guide SPO Acquisition Managers in preparing Prime Item Specifications. In this report both the ISD and SPO procedures are described as they are currently accomplished. Relevant documentation is cited and a comprehensive bibliography is included. For each of the two sets of procedures, a general decision model is presented as a reference, and general problem areas which appear to be degrading the ultimate cost-effectiveness of maintenance simulators are discussed. (Author).

Maintenance Training Simulator Design and Acquisition
Maintenance Training Simulator Design and Acquisition

Author: Rohn J. Hritz

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Published: 1980

Total Pages: 234

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The project explored the problems of maintenance training simulation design and acquisition. The report describes the procedures developed for designing and documenting maintenance trainers; i.e., the procedures for determining when to use a simulator, the procedures for determining the degree of fidelity of the trainer components, and the procedures for selecting and defining the instructional features of the maintenance trainer. In addition, the report describes the project-generated ISD (Instructional System Development) Derived Training Equipment Design model specification and the Prime Development Specification for Maintenance Training Simulators. Both are model or generic specifications. The ISD-derived model specification is used to communicate to the System Program Office (SPO) the results of the ISD analysis (with respect to training equipment requirements). The Prime Development Model Specification is used by the SPO to construct a procurement specification which contains both training-oriented and engineering requirements. The report also discusses nine problem areas: e.g., the increasing emphasis for an accelerated acquisition schedule, the lack of continual communications between ISD analysts and SPO personnel, the reassignment of ISD analysts and the lack of documentation of corporate knowledge. For each prolem, recommendations/alternative-solutions are offered.

Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures
Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures

Author: Jens Rasmussen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-13

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 1461592305

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This book includes all of the papers presented at the NATO Symposium on Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures held at Roskilde, Denmark on August 4-8, 1980. The Symposium was sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO and the Rise National Laboratory of Denmark. The goal of the Symposium was to continue the tradition initiated by the NATO Symposium on Monitoring Behavior and Supervisory Control held in Berchtesgaden, F .R. Germany in 1976 and the NATO Symposium on Theory and Measurement of Mental Workload held in Mati, Greece in 1977. To this end, a group of 85 psychologists and engineers coming from industry, government, and academia convened to discuss, and to generate a "state-of-the-art" consensus of the problems and solutions associated with the human IS ability to cope with the increasing scale of consequences of failures within complex technical systems. The Introduction of this volume reviews their findings. The Symposium was organized to include brief formal presentations of papers sent to participants about two months in advance of the meeting, and considerable discussion both during plenary sessions and within more specialized workshops. Summaries of the discussions and workshop reports appear in this volume.

Maintenance Training Simulator Design and Acquisition: Handbook of ISD Procedures for Design and Documentation
Maintenance Training Simulator Design and Acquisition: Handbook of ISD Procedures for Design and Documentation

Author: Rohn J. Hritz

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Published: 1982

Total Pages: 215

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This technical paper presents a method for deriving training requirements, selecting an approach for meeting the training objectives identified, and making training equipment fidelity and instructional feature design decisions where training hardware is needed. The procedures supplement existing materials (AFP 50-58, and the 3306th Test and Evaluation Squadron Procedural Handbook, Edwards AFB) by clarifying existing training technology and providing new procedures to assist the ISD analyst in designing and documenting training equipment. The handbook expands upon currently used procedures in three major decision areas. These are (a) determining which training requirements require hardware or training equipment of some type, (b) selecting the degree of fidelity with which to represent components and parts on the training equipment, and (c) choosing instructional features to be incorporated in the training equipment. All procedures use decision flow charts to increase objectivity. The method results in documentation that is to be used as a basis for completing the ISD-Derived Training Equipment Design. The design is then communicated to the Simulator System Program Office (SimSPO) for use in preparing procurement specifications to contractors. (Author).