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<p>The Navy currently operates three F-35C squadrons, who have recently faced readiness challenges due to maintenance downtime. The current readiness levels attained to date will not suffice when the platform embarks on its first deployment in 2021. These readiness shortfalls prompted the authors to complete a Pareto analysis to determine the top maintenance-related degraders by the type of maintenance involved. Subsequently, the authors utilized process improvement tools to assess the efficiency of the current maintenance processes and investigated areas that could benefit from the authors’ analysis. The authors make recommendations to implement parallel maintenance processes and standardize the administrative documentation procedures, which have the potential to reduce maintenance downtime, increase aircraft readiness, and facilitate a means to perform more robust future aviation maintenance process analyses.
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<br>Subjects: readiness; F-35C; process optimization</div>
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<dl><dd>Gagnon, Grant R.</dd>
<dd>Gallousis, Andrew G.</dd></dl></div>
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