Product Support Analytical Tools
Overview
This page augments the DAU Tools Catalog by helping users navigate a repository of more than 250 life cycle logistics, product support, and sustainment-related tools. The product support analytical tools database includes decision support tools and data sources for product support modeling, simulation, management, analysis, assessment, evaluation, execution, optimization, and oversight.
- For each tool, you’ll find a description, the processes the tool or data source supports, the Integrated Product Support Element(s) the tool or data source supports, organizations most likely to use the tool or data source, and ways to view additional information about each tool or data source.
- Some of the tools in this database are workforce submitted.
Disclaimer
The commercial and government tools included in this product support analytical tools database are provided to assist defense acquisition workforce members with identifying product support and sustainment strategies and solutions which optimize system readiness and life cycle affordability. The listing of tools identified in this product support analytical tools database should under no circumstances be considered all-encompassing; nor does it in any way warrant or endorse the capabilities, pricing, and/or products of any particular individual, company, capability, or organization. Suggested updates to the description of a specific tool or additions to the tools database are welcome.
Tool Filters
Click on the blue banner items below to display hyperlinked resources, processes, elements, tools, and requirements.
Filter by Process the Tool Supports
- Analysis, Design, Development & Technical Management Processes
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- Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+)
- Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Products
- Configuration Management (CM)
- Cost Analysis Requirements Description (CARD)
- Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH)
- Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) / Failure Modes Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)
- Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA)
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) / Product Data Management (PDM)
- Product Support Analysis (PSA)/ Supportability Analysis
- Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA)
- Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) Modeling, Prediction, Allocation and Analysis
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Risk Assessment / Risk Management
- Specifications, Standards and Standardization
- Technical Data Management
- Logistics, Product Support & Sustainment Management Processes
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- Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing
- Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) & Data Item Descriptions (DID)
- Corrosion Prevention & Control (CPC)
- Counterfeit Parts Prevention, Detection, and Resolution
- Digital Product Support
- Diminishing Manufacturing Sources & Material Shortages (DMSMS)
- Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness/ Remediation (FIAR) and Property Management/Accountability
- Independent Logistics Assessment (ILA)
- Intellectual Property
- Life Cycle Logistics
- Life Cycle Management
- Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)
- Maintenance Planning and Maintenance Management
- Manpower Planning
- Obsolescence Management
- Operating & Support (O&S) Cost Estimating
- Operating & Support (O&S) Cost Reporting Tools
- Product Support Metrics
- Product Support Incentives
- Performance Based Logistics (PBL)
- Software Life Cycle Management & Agile Software Development
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Supply Chain Resiliency / Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
- Sustainment Reviews (SR)
- System Retirement, Disposition, Reclamation, Demilitarization & Disposal
IPS Element
- 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements
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- Design Interface
- Facilities & Infrastructure
- Information Technology Systems Continuous Support
- Maintenance Planning and Management
- Manpower & Personnel
- Packaging, Handling, Storage & Transportation
- Product Support Management
- Supply Support
- Support Equipment
- Sustaining Engineering
- Technical Data
- Training & Training Support
DoD Organization the Tool Supports
- Service/Components the Tool Supports
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- Army
- Navy/ Marine Corps
- Air Force/ Space Force
- Agencies
- Joint Staff/ OSD
Licensing Requirement
- Is there a Cost to Use this Tool?
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- License fee may apply
- No fee for Government users