Comparative anatomy of maintenance tasks (CAMT): demonstration of field administration technique

To be a "player" in today's concurrent engineering design environment, each engineer must provide reasonable estimates of system-level effects of his/her recommendations. Human factors engineers, who formerly relied on quoting military standards (MIL-STDs) or design guides, now must support their recommendations with consequences. Although human factors maintainability estimate methods have been employed, most are considered cumbersome, labor intensive, and not responsive to the quick-paced program or design office decisions required. The CAMT research program proposes a new way to estimate human consequences of design alternatives, a method that could be more responsive, efficient, and effective. This new approach is demonstrated in a series of CAMT feasibility studies conducted by the Armstrong Lab's Logistics Research Division.<>