TY - BOOK ID - 77871237 TI - Lean logistics AU - Ramey, Timothy L AU - United States. AU - Project Air Force (U.S.) AU - Rand Corporation. PY - 1999 SN - 0585160600 9780585160603 9780833026972 0833026976 0833026976 PB - Santa Monica, CA Rand DB - UniCat KW - Airplanes, Military KW - C-5A (Jet transports) KW - Just-in-time systems KW - Galaxy (Jet transport) KW - Military & Naval Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Air Forces KW - JIT systems KW - Just-in-time manufacturing KW - Kanban KW - Production control KW - C-5 (Jet transport) KW - Lockheed C-5 (Jet transport) KW - Lockheed Galaxy (Jet transport) KW - Jet transports KW - Lockheed aircraft KW - Aeroplanes, Military KW - Military airplanes KW - War planes KW - Warplanes KW - Aeronautics, Military KW - Government aircraft KW - Air warfare KW - Maintenance and repair KW - Cost control. KW - Management. KW - Maintenance and repair. KW - Cost control KW - Management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871237 AB - As part of a body of research defining and evaluating the concept of Lean Logistics for the U.S. Air Force, this report considers the effects on operation of the C-5 Galaxy airlift aircraft of radically reducing the time required to move and repair aircraft components. Lean Logistics updates Air Force logistics operations by applying technology and management innovations that have proven effective in the commercial world, are relevant to the central supply problems of the Air Force, and are affordable. The analysis in this study used Air Force data to drive simulations of C-5 logistics operations and considered peacetime flying programs. This study found that a high-velocity infrastructure would provide C-5 performance that is the same as or better than that provided by the current infrastructure across a wide range of conditions and circumstances. A high-velocity infrastructure would require only one-sixth the amount of inventory at one-third the cost of the current infrastructure to produce the same operational performance. ER -