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3.4.3 Practical Issues for Including Manufacturing During Space System Concept Development
Author(s) -
Ruth Susan C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1995.tb01939.x
Subject(s) - space (punctuation) , function (biology) , development (topology) , computer science , manufacturing engineering , systems engineering , process management , engineering , management science , engineering management , mathematics , mathematical analysis , evolutionary biology , biology , operating system
The historical trend in systems engineering has been to increasingly consider aspects of the latter portions of the life cycle during concept design. In theory, this has been implemented by including participants from these disciplines, e.g. manufacturing, operations, etc. on the concept development team In the space industry, this approach has been observed by this author to be expensive and does not necessarily fulfill the intended function. In this paper, an assessment will be made of the factors that hamper the effective inclusion of one of these disciplines, specifically manufacturing, in the early concept phase of a military space program. Practical approaches for significantly improving the impact manufacturing considerations can have in up‐front concept definition will be described.