R&M and supportability analysis integration into conceptual and preliminary weapon system design phases

Author

Bordelon, Bruce A.

Author_Institution

Gen. Dynamics, Fort Worth, TX, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

29-31 Jan 1991

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

207

Abstract

Two projects are reviewed with emphasis on the development and integration of reliability, maintainability and supportability (RM&S) analysis software tools for the preliminary design stages. The aim of the first project is to automate and integrate analysis algorithms into the ACADS (advanced computer aided design system) software used in the preliminary weapon system stage. The second project´s objective is to design and prototype an integrated product development (IPD) workstation to be used by RM&S engineers on a number of advanced weapon system programs. This workstation incorporates computer-aided design (CAD) drawing file interfaces and RM&S analysis tools in a concurrent engineering environment

Keywords

CAD; computer interfaces; design engineering; engineering computing; engineering workstations; failure analysis; maintenance engineering; military computing; military systems; project engineering; reliability; software packages; weapons; ACADS; CAD; algorithms; concurrent engineering environment; engineering computing; failure analysis; integrated product development; interfaces; maintainability; preliminary design; projects; reliability; software tools; supportability; weapon system; workstation; Algorithm design and analysis; Design automation; Maintenance; Software algorithms; Software design; Software prototyping; Software systems; Software tools; Weapons; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1991. Proceedings., Annual

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-87942-661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARMS.1991.154436

Filename

154436