WHEN TO STOP SAMPLING AND INITIATE PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT

Abstract

The relation between information collection and product improvement is considered. A rule is developed whereby the decision maker can determine when to stop gathering information and initiate product improvement. A simple technique is used for ranking product improvement candidates (subsystems). The ranking depends on (1) the subsystem's failure rate, (2) the number of subsystems of this type in the weapon system, (3) the cost in weapon system downtime of a subsystem failure, (4) the maintenance cost of a subsystem failure, (5) the initial cost of the weapon system and (6) the weapon system's expected service life.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0272138

Entities

People

  • J. J. Mccall

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Distribution Functions
  • Downtime
  • Engineering
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Observation
  • Random Variables
  • Sampling
  • Standards
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Regression Analysis.