Data Administration for the Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts

Abstract

Procurement of spare parts is both time consuming and costly for the Navy. The Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts (RAMP) is an Navy program designed to reduce the lead time required to procure small mechanical parts by up to 90%. RAMP is a flexible manufacturing system which will use computer controlled equipment to produce 15,000 parts per year with an average lot size of four parts. A distributed system consisting of heterogenous hardware, software and data, the RAMP environment presents many database administration difficulties. This thesis presents an overview of the RAMP Manufacturing System, discusses the data base administration issues found in distributed computing environments and flexible manufacturing systems, and suggests and expanded information resource dictionary system to manage and control RAMP's shared data. The problem of maintaining consistency among multiple databases in the event of a failure is examined.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA201859

Entities

People

  • Catherine T. Eads
  • Pamela A. Smith

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Automation
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Inventory Control
  • Lead Time
  • Machine Tools
  • Manufacturing
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Production
  • Resource Management
  • Standards

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering.