The Attempt to Quantify Operational Availability of Exploited Vehicles Awaiting Functioning

Abstract

Quantification of operational availability at any moment, of cars utilized in action operations is the result of the processed information from the monitoring of use and maintenance processes. The collection of information on the monitoring processes and its structure are secondary to the applied preparedness and reliability indicators.This study, based on data from the literature and normative acts, contains the characteristics of the preparedness models used in the military transportation system and the indicators used for controlling its exploitation. The specific issue in this approach is an attempt to indicate how to assess the impact of the vehicle wear on their preparedness, reliability and availability. Not only the need, but also the possibility to account for this impact, was justified by empirical characterization of damageability of the vehicles operated with varying intensity of use. Varying intensity of use of vehicles suitable for a variety of cargo shipments, is a characteristic phenomenon in the system with action specificity like the military transportation system in the status of waiting for the full functioning.The study also attempted to utilize index, defined in the defence standards, for quantification of operational availability of vehicles utilized in the system with action characteristics, and also an attempt to identify their reliability and availability.