Securing Method of Spare Parts Inventory for KT/A-1 Aircraft by Employing Association Rules
Chang Ik Kim, Dong Hee Yoo · Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange · 2023
Growing foreign interest in the Korean aviation weapons system underscores the continuous need for effective inventory management strategies.These strategies are essential to achieve the target operational availability rate for aircraft.In the case of applying Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contracts in the operations of KT-1 and KA-1 among Korean-made aircraft, it is required to an alternative approach method of spare part forecast to ensure timely support for potential aircraft defects, moving away from traditional time-series methods.This study assumes that specific system components in ROKAF-operated aircraft show that essential spare parts have interrelated purchase request patterns at fault occurrences.it presented a visualization of the interrelationships between components so that can predict essential repair components and verify their association by employing association rules and discovering meaningful patterns and rules on collected data.Also, based on the predicted essential spare parts, it is possible to finalize the essential securing inventory, and through the establishment of efficient operation management of spare parts and securing method of inventory based on the purchase and inventory management centered on the confirmed essential securing items, it is expected to ensure the target operational availability rate for KT/A-1 aircraft.In the future, the study will be expanded across the Korean-made aircraft across the board through the addition of target aircraft and target items.