Mission-oriented determination of regional weapon maintenance demand in simulation

Determining maintenance demand ahead of mission is crucial to practical weapon maintenance, particularly to regional warship weapon maintenance. Attention is paid only to reliability, and the nature of mission or the consequence of damage is ignored while determining the regional warship weapon maintenance demand. For this reason, a method for determining regional maintenance demand based on simulation is put forward in this paper. Regional weapon maintenance system is first analyzed to build a mission-oriented maintenance demand model with the concept of mission-induced failure. Subsequently, the Anylogic platform is employed because of its advantages including agent modeling simulation and visualized process display. Four types of agent are designed for the regional maintenance system. The process of determining maintenance demand based on simulation is established on this basis. An example is eventually taken to calculate and verify the universality and effectiveness of the simulation model.