Title :
Improving Fort Carson´s Soldier Readiness Point
Author :
White, Benjamin D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Eng., United States Mil. Acad., West Point, NY, USA
Abstract :
The Soldier Readiness Point at Fort Carson, Colorado suffers from long soldier wait times and low throughput caused by poor command and control, limited building capacity, and poor flow through the site. By applying systems thinking and simulation to this complex problem, it is possible to identify key opportunities for improvement. Fort Carson´s SRP Site is operating at near maximum capacity and the application of loading strategies failed to produce substantial gains, however, the increase of onsite servers at key bottlenecks as well as the reduction of those requiring testing by sending them to offsite testing before entering the system proved very effective in increasing throughput and reducing wait times.
Keywords :
command and control systems; Colorado; Fort Carson; command and control; limited building capacity; offsite testing; onsite servers; soldier readiness point site; soldier wait times; Analytical models; Buildings; Command and control systems; Design engineering; Modeling; Scheduling; System testing; Systems engineering and theory; Throughput; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Charlottesville, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7519-3
DOI :
10.1109/SIEDS.2010.5469675
