{"id":210,"date":"2009-08-24T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=210"},"modified":"2024-01-30T21:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:45:35","slug":"integrated-logistic-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Logistic Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m spending this week in Malm\u00f6 in southern Sweden, participating in a course on Integrated Logistics Support (ILS).<\/span> ILS<\/span>, basically, is about planning for and supporting a product’s whole lifecycle, from its early planning stages and onwards to the deployment (called “employment plan”, a phrase that to me meant something very different until today), the product’s useful life, including maintenance and support, and the product’s eventual disposal. As always, the idea is to create a better and more cost-effective product, meaning more money to you. See, what’s really interesting is how the results of an ILS<\/span> analysis, called LSA<\/span> (don’t you just love acronyms?), can be put into the design<\/span> of the product itself and how a proper analysis can help significantly reduce cost.<\/p>\n

ILS<\/span> is traditionally about military products, preferably state-of-the art helicopters or perhaps a large frigate but an ordinary rifle can benefit, too, and so is the course I’m attending, but it’s easy to see how ILS<\/span> can be put into good use elsewhere. It’s fascinating stuff. Obviously it’s a bit early for me to comment on anything factually relevant, being a complete newbie in all things ILS<\/span>, but I can see a relevance to document management and the systems I help build when I’m not in Malm\u00f6\u00b6.<\/p>\n

As I said, fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m spending this week in Malm\u00f6 in southern Sweden, participating in a course on Integrated Logistics Support (ILS). ILS, basically, is about planning for and supporting a product’s whole lifecycle, from its early planning stages and onwards to the deployment (called “employment plan”, a phrase that to me meant something very different until today), the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156,157,155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}