Planning the life cycle of entire systems or individual equipment in association with purchasing enables the cost effective use of investment. All the factors affecting purchase, usage and service are observed along with service planning by fitting them into the available service organisation in accordance with the system. This ensures reliable and economical usage for the system or equipment.

In addition to the purchase expenses, system investments include many allusive cost elements that are realised during the later phases of the life cycle (in use phase, service, maintenance). These are for example spare parts storage and transport costs, system and equipment modifications, spare parts and component availability for the entire planned life cycle.

Our life cycle services include among others:

• Integrated Logistic Support (ILS)
• Maintainability Analysis (LSA, MTA)
• Reliability Analysis (MIL-HDBK-217 F)
• Optimising and calculating lifecycle costs (LCC)
• User and Maintenance manuals
• Training planning
• Service and maintenance services for equipment and systems
• Planning modernisations and modifications
• Spare part services (recommendations, availability controls, Obsolescence Management)
• Planning and publishing of electronic manuals (IETM, ETM)

Our tools in the life cycle service:

• Motivated and skilful staff
• EAGLE Software for comprehensive life cycle planning
• RELEX Reliability Studio for reliability prediction
• Q-Star for component and spare part availability control (obsolescence)
• IHS Haystack for purchase logistics