Track 2 Session 2
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday June 17, 2008

Design for Reliability and Maintainability A Success Story

Although reliability, maintainability and system health are often noted to be mandatory requirements for projects and programs it is often left to the post-concept or design phase for actual implementation. This presentation addresses one example of a program where the reliability, maintainability and systems health were incorporated as part of the system concept development and the impact it had on such program elements as concept of operations, fault detection and failure management, reduced maintenance times and the ability to meet stringent mission reliability requirements. In addition, the customer received updates during concept development, greatly enhancing their confidence in the quality of the system development and the ability of the proposed system to meet cost and schedule constraints.