Life-cycle center (LCC)
Delegate your airworthiness responsibility to keep your systems in operation. We take full system overall responsibility (OSTR).
We ensure a broad variety of compentencies through our Life-cycle center (LCC):
- Ensure the weapon system integrity
- Execution of intermediate and depot level maintenance work for the complete weapon system
- Development, substantiation and implementation of changes
- Configuration management
- Provide a forward looking integrated logistic support
- Provide technical expertise in support of the operator
Graphic of our Life-cycle center concept - providing continuing airworthiness and support your fleet operation with optimized services
Our engineering competencies and capabilities enable us to take over your systems technical resposibility with the following main tasks:
System integrity and safety
- In-service monitoring (incl. notification assessment & reliability management e.g. F/A-18 > 6000 FH, > 3’500 technical bulletins p.a.)
- System safety management (hazard identification
and risk assessment) - Life-cycle planning
- MMEL management
- Update technical libraries and databases
- Integrated logistics management and obsolescence management
Maintenance Support
- Aircraft maintenance program management (AMP)
- Effectiveness of the AMP
- Reliability centered maintenance (RCM)
- Defect rectification & maintenance engineering
- Troubleshooting, technical expertise
System development and change management
- Leads the modification process (> 600 projects)
- Requirements engineering
- Architecture design/development
- Configuration management and status accounting
- Supports in the validation of certifications or approvals
Bereitstellung von technischem Know-how zur Unterstützung
- Assessment of mission profile changes effect on airframe fatigue life
- In-depth, root cause analysis of (repetitive) system errors
- Forecast of A/C handling qualities in new mission elements
- Contribution to incidence investigation
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Andreas Baumann
Business Unit Head Life Cycle Management
Tel.
+41 58 467 09 27
Mobile
+41 79 540 12 81
E-mail
andreas.baumann@ruag.ch
RUAG AG
Eichistrasse 1
6055
Alpnach
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