Title :
Standardized FRACAS for non-standardized products
Author_Institution :
GE Aerosp. RCA GCSD, Camden, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A cost-effective failure reporting and corrective action system (FRACAS) has been developed as a tool for improving quality and productivity in today´s competitive marketplace. The need for implementing a FRACAS has been well established within the reliability and maintainability engineering community for years. A discussion is presented of how a standardized approach is being utilized throughout GE/RCA´s government communications systems division as a tool in establishing feedback and promoting corrective action to reduce life cycle costs and improve GE/RCA´s competitiveness and product reliability
Keywords :
failure analysis; maintenance engineering; reliability; standardisation; telecommunication systems; FRACAS; corrective action system; cost-effective failure reporting; feedback; government communications systems; life cycle costs; maintainability engineering; nonstandardised products; reliability; standardized approach; Computer errors; Costs; Data engineering; Databases; Failure analysis; Flowcharts; Government; Reliability engineering; Standardization; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1989. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
DOI :
10.1109/ARMS.1989.49643
