Information evaluation model of equipment support organization structure based on entropy theory

Support organization is set of equipment support institution in wartime and peacetime, has a crucial contribution to come into being the battle effectiveness. The information flows in support organization structure include management information flow, spares information flow and information flow of fault parts. The order degree of information flow can reflect size of equipment support capacity. This paper innovatively uses entropy theory to measure the order degree of information flow and gives definition and calculation method of support organization structure entropy. This model can be the input of organization structure evaluating & optimizing which becomes a key factor to achieve high supportability of support system. In the end, a case is used to verify the validity of the model and method presented in this paper. Then we discuss the result. It's proved be feasible to analyze and evaluate support organization structure using entropy theory.