Integrated logistics support, usually shortened to ILS, is a systems engineering technique for lowering the life cycle cost of a product and reducing its demand for logistics by planning, from the start, how it will be maintained and supported. It was introduced by the United States Army so that supportability would be weighed during design and development, and the British Ministry of Defence adopted it in 1993 and made it compulsory for the procurement of most of its equipment. ILS coordinates elements such as reliability and maintainability engineering, spare parts supply, support and test equipment, personnel and training, technical data, facilities, and packaging, handling, storage and transport. Its effect is often measured through reliability, availability, maintainability and testability, and its decisions are recorded in an integrated logistics support plan. Though military in origin, it is also used in commercial service organisations and on civilian projects.
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Integrated logistics support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering to lower a product life cycle cost
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Integrated logistics support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering
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Integrated logistics support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering to lower a product life cycle cost and decrease demand for logistics by the maintenance system optimization to ease the product support.
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