IDEP--Year One at Librascope

The Interservice Data Exchange Program (IDEP) is an important new tool in the reliability test effort of General Precision´s Librascope Division. IDEP´s effectiveness for Librascope has expanded rapidly through use of a summary which codes salient features of pertinent test reports. The summary, issued semi-annually, has helped reduce wasteful duplication of tests already conducted by IDEP member organizations. The program´s manifold benefits, as reviewed in this paper, have saved Librascope about $ 8000 to date. While IDEP is still not functioning perfectly, the company sincerely believes that certain minor changes in the manner of failure-rate data exchange, for example, will prompt even greater benefits in the future.