摘要：When an aircraft component needs replacement of a serially controlled item, a maintenance officer in the U.S. Navy uses the Scheduled Removal Component (SRC) card to confirm the component’s life cycle, to verify that the part is ready-for-issue, and to verify how many flight-hours it still has left. Unfortunately, replacement components are often missing the SRC cards; when they are present, their information is unreliable, which prevents the part from being immediately installed. The authors analyze the impact of the current paper-based life-cycle management of serially controlled parts, and investigate item-unique identification and radio-frequency identification technologies as alternative ways of tracking these parts to increase operational availability.
