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A tririga was a three horse team which pulled chariots during the Roman Empire. Much like the chariots, CES hopes this new system will pull the 56th CES into the 21st century of work management.
“We’ve been operating on a system from the 1980s which uses function keys,” said Master Sgt. Timothy Linder, 56th CES operations engineering superintendent. “We can’t drag and drop and it’s old. This is how we track our man hours, material ordering and build all of our schedules for preventative maintenance. Everything is tracked off of this old system, which was built as an interim work around for a new system which was never built.”
“The Air Force decided civil engineering needs to evolve into a more efficient entity,” Linder added. “So we are going to a maintenance oriented mindset versus a fix-it oriented mindset.”
Luke is the seventh base to begin implementing NexGen IT/TRIRIGA which is scheduled to replace CE legacy systems Air Force wide.
“Every base will eventually do this transition,” Linder said. “Joint Base Andrews was the first base to do a trial by fire with this system.”
There’s a list of bases scheduled to go live. The Air Force is staggering it so if the chaos hits, each CE unit is not caught unprepared, Linder said.
The 56th CES is scheduled to go through a brown-out phase starting Monday, July 18. This means the old system will go to a static system, where they can still access data, but are unable to input new data. CES will use spreadsheets to track everything going forward until the new system is implemented.
“The brown out is a week-long and then on July 25, we will migrate into TRIRIGA,” said Capt. Kevin Porter, 56th CES engineering flight deputy commander. “Even though we go live on the 25th, there’s a lot of setup and other actions which need to be done before we can actually utilize it. We’re looking at a couple of weeks before the full transition.”
Not only is this new system changing how the 56th CES works, but it’s changing the way they have to look at how they respond.
“Obviously things will continue to break and we will react to them, but through the use of this new system and its ability to track when we need parts or maintenance we will be able to do more preventative maintenance,” Porter said. “This will extend the life of components we handle and in the long run save money.”
| Date Taken: | 07.15.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 10.26.2016 16:35 |
| Story ID: | 213023 |
| Location: | LUKE AFB, AZ, US |
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