Mr Chris Hockley OBE
Lecturer and R&M Business Development
Location: Shrivenham
E: c.hockley@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1793 785337
Department of Management and Security
Current activities
Chris has specialist expertise in R&M management, developing the R&M Case for equipments to deliver assured performance and system effectiveness. His primary interests are to improve the understanding of Availability and its achievement, maintenance operations and maintenance management systems such as Health & Usage Monitoring Systems and Condition Based Maintenance. He has just won and currently manages a £375K EPSRC research programme into HUMS and Predictive Maintenance under a collaborative university programme called KT-Box. It involves managing two Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) and preparation of four tools for predictive maintenance and HUMS. To these ends Chris runs an annual Symposium dealing with Vehicle Health and Prognostic Management. A second symposium deals with Delivering Availability and Capability. Both events attract high level speakers and presenters and a wide audience of military and industrial participants.
Background
Chris is a chartered engineer with over 35 years experience of maintenance and support of defence equipment in the Royal Air Force. Having commanded an Engineering Wing of more than 800 staff providing maintenance and support for two squadrons of Phantom aircraft, he has specialised in Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) since 1991 completing a Defence Fellowship in the subject in 1993. He has spent the last 12 years at Shrivenham both on the military Directing Staff and after retiring from the RAF as a wing commander, latterly with Cranfield University delivering courses and post-graduate teaching in Logistics Engineering, Supportability and Systems Effectiveness. Chris specialises in R&M, Availability and Supportability of Defence Equipment with particular interests in effective maintenance management and fleet management.
Selected publications
Hockley, CJ. (2001) and Brown, MA. The Cost of Specifying Maintenance/Failure Free Operating Periods for Royal Air Force Aircraft. Proc. Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, 2001.
Hockley, CJ. (1999). Design for Success. Proc. Ann. Inst Mech Engrs, Vol 213 Part G, 1999.
Hockley, CJ. (1997). Setting the Requirements for the Royal Air Force’s Next Generation Aircraft. Proc. Ann. Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, 1997.
Hockley, CJ. (1997). Designing for Success: The Impact of ILS on Design. Proc. IMech E Conference, 1997.
Hockley, CJ. (1997). Delivering Failure Free Operations. Proc. 12th Technical Symposium of SRD Assoc. 1997.
Hockley, CJ. (1993). NATO R&M Standards – Blueprint for Success. Proc. Ann. Reliability & Maintainability Symposium. 1993.
