A Human Factors Integrated Methods for Weapon System Effectiveness Evaluation

Abstract

System effectiveness evaluation is important for development and application of weapons, but traditional methods seldom take human factors into account, which is critical for applying modern equipment of weapons. Different results will come from same weapons but operated by different persons, so perfect results could only be achieved with highly harmony of weapons and persons who operate the weapons. An improved system effectiveness evaluation method is developed by integrated human factors into the traditional ADC method which has been widely used. Firstly, the concepts about system effectiveness are introduced with the ADC. And then, after detailed discussion about human effectiveness metrics, components from human factors are redefined and integrated into the ADC model with two strategies. At last, how the method is implemented is demonstrated with a typical application example for system effectiveness evaluation of a main tank, and the result shows that the new method to be feasible and reasonable.