Allocating reliability & maintainability goals to NASA ground systems

Author

Gillespie, A.M. ; Monaghan, M.W.

Author_Institution

Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

28-31 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RMA) analysis team, supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) Program, developed an RMA allocation and analysis process utilizing standard Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) allocation techniques, along with system-based knowledge, to ensure the GSDO subsystems (SS) achieve the required launch availability goal. In this paper, we will present an effective way to allocate RMA requirements that are Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound (SMART) [1].

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; ground support systems; reliability; GSDO program; GSDO subsystems; KSC ground systems; Kennedy Space Center; NASA ground systems; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; RMA allocation; RMA analysis; RMA requirements; allocation techniques; availability; maintainability; reliability; system-based knowledge; Availability; Equations; Maintenance engineering; Mathematical model; Reliability engineering; Resource management; Allocation; Ground Systems; Launch Availability; Maintainability; Reliability; Requirements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), 2013 Proceedings - Annual

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

0149-144X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4709-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAMS.2013.6517683

Filename

6517683