Title Munitions manufacturing : a call for modernization / Committee to Evaluate the Totally Integrated Munitions Enterprise (TIME) Program, Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) : illustrations Contents Munitions Manufacturing -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- STATEMENT OF TASK -- MAIN FINDINGS -- MAIN CONCLUSIONS -- MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS -- Budgetary and Management Issues -- Technical and Program Approaches -- Special Recommendation -- 1 Munitions Manufacturing in the United States -- HISTORY AND CURRENT STATUS -- THE TOTALLY INTEGRATED MUNITIONS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM -- Background -- Vision, Goals, and Objectives -- Program Description -- Program Elements -- Metrics for Judging Success -- Deliverables -- Program Funding STUDY OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH -- Charge to the Committee -- Frame of Reference for the Committee -- Committee Analysis -- 2 Enterprise Integration -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNOLOGIES ENABLING AGILE MANUFACTURING -- Background -- Methodology -- Demonstration Projects -- Difficulties of Enterprise Integration -- NETWORKING AND CONNECTIVITY -- ASSESSMENT OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION -- Supply Chain Management -- Problem Definition -- Details of Enterprise Integration -- Concluding Discussion -- 3 The Approach to Munitions Replenishment -- INTRODUCTION -- MUNITIONS REPLENISHMENT POLICY TOTALLY INTEGRATED MUNITIONS ENTERPRISE REPLENISHMENT STRATEGY -- CONCERNS REGARDING REPLENISHMENT -- Commercial Manufacturing Environment in the Year 2000 -- Remote Operation of Equipment -- Agile, Lean Manufacturing -- Replenishment as a Technology Transfer Problem -- Labor Force for Replenishment -- State of the Art -- Organizational Learning -- Needs Assessment Tools -- Theoretical Approaches for Organizational Learning -- Theoretical Approaches for Representing Organizational Learning -- Managing Workforce Maintenance and Development -- Maintenance of Replenishment Manufacturing Capability 4 Product Realization -- APPROACH TO PRODUCT REALIZATION -- Vision -- Case Study: Product Realization -- Background -- Modeling and Simulation Tools -- Mechanical Piece Parts -- Product Realization Model -- Concept Optimization -- Design Optimization -- Execution -- Conceptual Design Cockpit -- COMMITTEE ASSESSMENT -- Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing -- Modeling and Simulation -- Importance of First Prototype -- Realization -- Multidisciplinary Design -- Rapid Prototyping -- Knowledge, Expertise, and Reasoning -- Realization Speed -- 5 Controllers -- INTRODUCTION INDUSTRIAL NEEDS AND DESIRES -- COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF CONTROLLERS -- Difficult Domain-to-Domain Integration -- Large-Packet Delivery Latencies -- Large Timeouts Due to Packet Failure -- EFFORTS TO DEVELOP OPEN MODULAR ARCHITECTURE CONTROLLERS -- Concept of Open Architecture -- History of Open Architecture -- International Efforts -- Department of Energy Involvement in OMAC -- Approach to the Needs of Commercial and Munitions Industries -- Math-Based Manufacturing -- Reduction of Control System Development and Integration Time -- Incremental Upgrades of Control Systems Notes Print version record Subject Ordnance -- Manufacture. HISTORY -- Military -- Weapons. Armed Forces -- Ordnance and ordnance stores Ordnance -- Manufacture SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Ordnance and ordnance stores. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139866 United States -- Armed Forces -- Weapons systems -- Production control Subject United States Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Evaluate the Totally Integrated Munitions Enterprise (TIME) Program ISBN 0309581370 9780309581370

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