A Framework to Integrate Prognostics and Health Management into Performance-Based Logistics

Abstract

Performance-based logistics (PBL) has achieved widespread success as a new logistics strategy, but not all PBL projects have been successful. This article summarizes the reasons for the failure of PBL and the advantages of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), furthermore, analyses the necessity of integrating PHM into PBL. The innovation of this article lies in the establishment of a process framework to integrate PHM into PBL, and a specific evaluation method is given to evaluate the effect of PBL after using PHM, which make PBL gain more benefits or turn into a victory.