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  2. Availability - Wikipedia

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    Availability, achieved (Aa) [6] The probability that an item will operate satisfactorily at a given point in time when used under stated conditions in an ideal support environment (i.e., that personnel, tools, spares, etc. are instantaneously available). It excludes logistics time and waiting or administrative downtime.

  3. Availability (system) - Wikipedia

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    Availability includes non-operational periods associated with reliability, maintenance, and logistics. This is measured in terms of nines. Five-9's (99.999%) means less than 5 minutes when the system is not operating correctly over the span of one year. Availability is only meaningful for supportable systems.

  4. Supply chain management - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] A more narrow definition of supply chain management is the "design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronising supply with demand and measuring performance globally".

  5. Design for availability - Wikipedia

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    In Availability-based Contracts, [2] instead of parts, the supplier is paid for a guaranteed level of services, performance, and system capability, similar to availability-based tariffs for electric power. [3] The supplier often has to guarantee the availability and preparedness of system at lesser costs by considering the logistics as

  6. Freight forwarder - Wikipedia

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    A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers (party that transports goods).

  7. Operational availability - Wikipedia

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    Operational availability is a management concept that evaluates the following. [1] Diagnostic down time; Criticality; Fault isolation down time; Logistics delay down time; Corrective maintenance down time; Any failed item that is not corrected will induce operational failure. is used to evaluate that risk. Operational failure is unacceptable in ...

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  9. Integrated logistics support - Wikipedia

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    Integrated logistics [1] support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering to lower a product life cycle cost and decrease demand for logistics by the maintenance system optimization to ease the product support. Although originally developed for military purposes, it is also widely used in commercial customer service organisations. [2]