DocumentCode :
1354774
Title :
The Navy´s Best Practices Approach to Reliability and Quality
Author :
Willoughby, W.J., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Director; Reliability, Maintainability and Quality Assurance; Department of the Navy; Office of the Assistant Secretary of te Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics); Washington, DC 20360-5000 USA.
Issue :
3
fYear :
1987
Firstpage :
310
Lastpage :
312
Abstract :
For the first time in recent history, the US Army, Navy, and Air Force are in fundamental agreement on the priority of reliability in their weapon system requirements. Even more significant is mutual recognition that reliability is achieved not by setting numerical requirements and testing for compliance, but by focusing on the fundamentals of design and manufacturing; and that quality is achieved not by counting defects but by eliminating their causes. These lessons, long in coming to the Department of Defense and its contractors, are now beginning to be implemented in the acquisition or upgrading of most weapon systems. A major impetus to implementation was the 1982-83 work of the Defense Science Board Task Force on the Transition from Development to Production, which led to DoD Directive 4245.7, its companion DoD Manual 4245.7-M, and Department of Defense Advocacy. Each service is taking a somewhat different approach to the implementation of these similar new initiatives. The purpose of this paper is to outline the Navy´s approach, for comparison with the initiatives of the other services.
Keywords :
Best practices; Circuit testing; Costs; Design engineering; Job shop scheduling; Maintenance; Manufacturing; Production; Risk analysis; Weapons; Defect control; Design analysis; Piece part contol; Quality; Test analyze and fix;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9529
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1987.5222386
Filename :
5222386
Link To Document :
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