Models are available to estimate life cycle costs of a variety of hardware programs.
With appropriate information, the life cycle costs of hardware systems can be evaluated. Through integration with the WBS structure, cost factors for different equipment is calculated in order to estimate life cycle costs. Moreover, the models provide for tailoring our analyses to fit a variety of maintenance concepts and supply systems in order to customize specific programs and user organizations. In a typical application, analysts can instruct the model to select the most cost effective of numerous built-in maintenance concepts. Operating features allow the analyst to specify a subset of the maintenance concepts for model evaluation.