TFD Supportability Workbench

Overview

According to tool suite owner, TFD Global, "..the TFD Supportability Workbench includes a comprehensive suite of tools that have been developed and evolved specifically to meet our customers’ logistics decision needs....Each solution is tailored to deliver the information necessary to help you make decisions throughout your system’s life cycle; from the design and development of your system, through to the strategic planning and tactical control of its in-service support...​The TFD Supportability Workbench has been packaged to equip users with a suite of software tools encompassing a full range of analytical disciplines (including Life-cycle Costing, Level of Repair Analysis, Design Alternatives Evaluation, Spares & Resource Optimization and Whole-life Costing). The Supportability Workbench provides users with a single, familiar user interface, whilst also enabling a flexible, integrated and consistent approach for your logistics support modelling and analysis. " The tools include:

• EDCAS - Cost and Level of Repair Analysis Tool
• VMetric - Inventory Optimization Tool
• Tempo - Next Generation Inventory Optimization Tool
• MAAP - Multi-Resource Planning, Optimization and Continuous Improvement Tool 
• SIM - COTS Logistics Decision Support Tool
• SCO - Supply Chain Optimization Tool 
• TFD Data Vault - Common-Source Repository of Logistics Data
• TFD Workbench - Suite of Logistics Support and Analysis Tools 

Processes Supported

• Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Products
• 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
• Life Cycle Logistics
• Life Cycle Management
• Maintenance Planning and Maintenance Management
• Obsolescence Management
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Potential Organizations Associated

• Air Force/ Space Force
• Army
• Defense Agencies
• Navy/ Marine Corps
• OSD/ Joint Staff

License Requirement

• License fee may apply

Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements Addressed

• Design Interface
• Maintenance Planning and Management
• Product Support Management
• Supply Support
• Sustaining Engineering

Disclaimer
This suite of commercial tools is included in the product support analytical tools database to assist defense acquisition workforce members with identifying product support solutions which potentially optimize system readiness and life cycle cost. The analytical tools database itself 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 this particular tool or additions to the tools database are welcome.