Mission essential

Position mission-essential vehicles for easy access to main avenue of approach. 121 Drape camouflage over all vehicles. 

An important look at maintenance management for the new millennium and the emerging role of a chief maintenance officer (CMO) and new technologies, will be presented. The chapter will help the new and experienced IE, the engineering manager, the operations manager, as well as the CEO, to understand better their own maintenance operation. It will outline specific methodologies to help improve mission-essential maintenance operations. It will also help aU to view the maintenance process as a profit center and key contributor to total operations success... 

There are many IE principles and practices that can support maintenance process improvement. The new and experienced IE, the engineering manager, the operations manager, and the CEO can now better understand the maintenance operation and how to improve mission-essential meiintenance operations. The next step is to take action on the journey to maintenance excellence. 

A critical item is defined as a single point failure and/or a redundant element in a life- or mission-essential application where ... 

Safety Culture as a Mission-Essential Business Priority... 

Leadership sets the business priorities for the many activities necessary to accompUsh its main organizational mission, which is survival in its particular niche in the marketplace. Leadership must focus on mission-essential activities to the highest degree possible. You must make an effort to be considered one of those mission-essential activities when estabUsh-ing or enhancing a safety culture. Your goals and objectives should be based on being mission-essential, as will be discussed in Chapter 4, Setting the Direction for the Safety Culture . 

Mission-essential activities are the designated actions and criteria that ensure the vision or intent of the organization has the highest possible chance of being accomplished. 

To see if you meet the meaning of mission-essential, ask the following questions ... 

What safety management system mission-essential priorities are being pushed in lieu of other things such as productivity Why (Figure 2.3)... 

What activities are you currently doing that are not mission-essential to the safety management system Refer to Table 2.4 for the extremes that might he found between positive and negative cultures . 

Leadership sets business priorities for the many activities necessary to accomplish its main organizational mission, which is survival in its particular niche in the marketplace. Explain why this is important to mission-essential safety management activities. 

Mission essential is a designation given to equipment, tasks, and assets necessary to achieve completion of a mission. Typically, this subset of equipment applies to normal operation (i.e., no failures) and is therefore larger than the subset of equipment designated as mission critical. 

We started the work by analyzing the event tree from the investigation (Figures 1-5) and pinpointed the areas in the system where the most benefit could be obtained with the least effort. To fulfill the first part of the mission, we essentially produced, or had produced, top-down flow charts (TDFCs) for all operations in the system. Only after the systems were completely defined could we confidently look for the most beneficial improvements. 

A large number of explosives are already available for use. However, selection of an explosive is made in the light of its stability, reliability, safety, application and mission requirements. At the time of development of a new explosive, it is essential to keep in mind factors such as indigenous availability of starting materials, ease of method of preparation, purity of explosive and its cost, in addition to its impact on the environment and potential for demilitarization. In this Chapter the following aspects of explosives will be discussed ... 

Different classes of solid propellants DB, CMDB, and fuel rich (FR) have been developed in order to meet the requirements of various missions in terms of specific impulse (Lsp) and wide range of burn rates with low pressure index (n). High density, low temperature sensitivity and good mechanical properties constitute other essential requirements of these propellants. The salient features of such performance parameters are ... 

The safety of witnesses and first aiders is essential. That is why, during missions of the mobile emergency medical services, the first fnndamental gesture is that which ensures the safety of the team. 

Figure 6.7 Catwalks are an essential part of the cooling tower package. Shown here is a small cooling tower with a walkway around the entire unit for,inspection and maintenance purposes (courtesy of the Marley Cooling Tower Company, Mission, KS).

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