Lessons learned from the general dynamics reliability, availability, and maintainability in computer-aided design-RAMCAD program

Author

Klement, Mary A. ; Dawson, William J.

Author_Institution

Convair Div., Gen. Dynamics, San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

1992

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

82

Abstract

RAMCAD is an acronym that stands for “Reliability, Availability and Maintainability in Computer Aided Design”. The objective of this contract is to integrate stand-alone, off-the-shelf, commercially available or public domain reliability, maintainability and supportability (RM&S) software into a computer-aided design environment. The paper describes the RAMCAD contract and its objectives and provides a technical discussion on selected lessons learned and critical issues from implementing standards on the RAMCAD contract. Lessons-learned topics address system portability, common user interface, database access, networking concurrent engineering workstation requirements, and concurrent engineering design process changes

Keywords

CAD; aerospace computing; concurrent engineering; contracts; maintenance engineering; reliability; standards; RAMCAD; aerospace design; availability; common user interface; computer-aided design; concurrent engineering; concurrent engineering design process; contract; database access; maintainability; networking; reliability; standards; system portability; workstation requirement; Availability; Computer network reliability; Concurrent engineering; Contracts; Databases; Design automation; Process design; Software maintenance; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliability and Maintainability Computer-Aided Engineering in Concurrent Engineering, 1990 and 1991., Combined Proceedings of the 1990 and 1991 Leesburg Workshops on

Conference_Location

Leesburg, VA ; Ellicott City, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RMCAE.1992.245509

Filename

245509