There is great concern for the competitiveness of the aerospace industry today. This paper examines the concept of competitiveness by relating the levels of the genopersistation recursion to cost.

In the aerospace industry, a maintenance history is not that easy to maintain. It can be an arduous task trying to find the part number on a component especially when the component has already been assembled and the number is the back. However, searching for the number is not the only issue in tracking the maintenance history. Since the number is written down by a person, human errors are prone...