Developed by Sandia National Laboratories, TMO is a technology management tool for planning and optimizing technology changes, including management of technology updates, obsolescence, and diminishing manufacturing sources & material shortages (DMSMS). This includes technology management, technology maintenance, technology replacement, technology upgrade, system-level trade studies, and decision support.
According to Sandia, the Technology Management Optimization (TMO) application “builds optimal roadmaps specifying what technologies should be in use and when they should be in use. TMO was developed to allow proactive maintenance and update of technologies for high-valued, long-lived, technologically sophisticated systems. With TMO, all components can be considered as a system and their lifecycles can be evaluated based on user-defined system metrics. For instance, cost, weight, and performance can be considered together in developing the best technology management plan for the entire system. TMO has proven flexible enough to address trade studies and decision problems. Because TMO runs quickly, it provides rapid, quantitative consideration of "what ifs." Thus, TMO can be used to plan contingencies—what if the budget changes? What if the power requirement changes? In this manner, TMO can help reach the best plan forward, with defensible results.”
