DocumentCode :
2405567
Title :
PROTOCOL: An on-line environment for reducing product reliability risk
Author :
MacDiarmid, Preston R. ; Mahar, David J. ; Glover, Jessica ; Shankle, Wyatt E.
Author_Institution :
Quanterion Solutions Inc., Utica, NY
fYear :
2006
fDate :
23-26 Jan. 2006
Firstpage :
665
Lastpage :
671
Abstract :
Military program offices and commercial product developers are challenged to make effective reliability decisions throughout product/systems development, acquisition, production and operation/maintenance phases. The decisions range from determining what reliability goals/requirements are appropriate to meet user\´s mission needs and market demands to select the most cost effective means to assess whether the system reliability is adequate to pass through various program decision "gates". These challenges are often faced by personnel with varying levels of reliability-specific experience and training, who often have multiple program responsibilities. These individuals need the benefit of the accumulated knowledge and experience that the Product Reliability On-line Tools Collection (PROTOCOL) provides. This paper presents the results of the recent Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II PROTOCOL program carried out for the US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. PROTOCOL provides tailorable reliability decision recommendations, analysis tools, rules-of-thumb, checklists, and lessons-learned coupled with the program specific constraints/schedule, requirements, and results tracking in a Web-based environment. For example, basic statistical analysis tools, a Weibull Analysis tool, a reliability activity cost calculator, and a thermal design advisor are examples of the tools included. The "environment" also includes a comprehensive reliability risk management tool and an interactive 5-part on-line tutorial in basic reliability. Completing PROTOCOL\´s knowledge content is an on-line library of more than 5000 reliability-related reports, standards, and guidance documents. PROTOCOL has been developed primarily to serve the reliability engineer, but it can also be used as a management aid to track the progress of development efforts and to ensure consistency among reliability approaches acros- - s a reliability organization with varying experience levels. Access to various portions of PROTOCOL can also be provided to interested parties outside the future reliability organization. PROTOCOL has been designed to be a reliability knowledge environment that grows over time. Users continually add knowledge as new data/information sources, new definitions, new lessons-learned, new rules-of-thumb and the like, all while tracking the reliability progress of products/systems that have been developed. PROTOCOL "learns" from informed decisions as it is used, as a means to improve the organization\´s reliability decision-making processes. A PROTOCOL prototype has been delivered to the Army completing the Phase II SBIR effort. Phase II Plus is currently underway, refining and expanding many of the tools included in the prototype. While PROTOCOL is being developed for military use, it has tremendous value as a resource to non-military government organizations and to the industrial community as well
Keywords :
Weibull distribution; decision making; expert systems; maintenance engineering; military equipment; product development; reliability; risk analysis; AMRDEC; Alabama; PROTOCOL; Redstone Arsenal; Web-based environment; Weibull analysis tool; commercial product developers; comprehensive reliability risk management tool; decision-making processes; industrial community; maintenance phases; military program offices; nonmilitary government organizations; on-line environment; product development; product reliability on-line tools collection; product reliability risk reduction; reliability activity cost calculator; reliability decision recommendations; reliability goals; reliability knowledge environment; reliability organization; reliability requirements; small business innovation research phase II; statistical analysis tools; systems development; thermal design advisor; Access protocols; Business; Costs; Maintenance; Missiles; Personnel; Production systems; Prototypes; Reliability engineering; Technological innovation;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2006. RAMS '06. Annual
Conference_Location :
Newport Beach, CA
ISSN :
0149-144X
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0007-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0149-144X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/RAMS.2006.1677450
Filename :
1677450
Link To Document :
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