Reliability Growth of Mobile Gun System During Production Verification Test

Abstract

Product verification testing (PVT) plays an important role in the verification and demonstration of key performance parameters and system reliability of autonomous and manned systems. Considerable effort was put into improving reliability of the Stryker Mobile Gun System (MGS) before and during PVT. During PVT for the Stryker MGS, an unprecedented reliability growth rate of 0.38 was achieved. This article describes implementation of systems engineering principles employed during the MGS program, as well as system abort data analysis conducted using reliability growth analysis and the Design Actions Report and Tracking system. During reliability growth testing, it is very important to have a proper understanding of the test data that trigger proper engineering analysis and consequently fuel reliability growth of the system during its developmental testing. In order to substantially improve reliability of the system during product qualification testing or PVT, it is imperative to have well defined failure definition scoring criteria, established engineering root cause analysis processes, fast implementation of verified design fixes, and Design Actions Reports and Tracking that address observed failure modes. This article discusses the reliability methodology utilized during PVT of MGS as well as some of the systems engineering principles employed to actively improve the design of MGS. Such an approach completes the Test-Find-Fix-Test cycle, further improves MGS reliability, and meets the requirements for the mission equipment package. Substantial efforts were made not only to capture positive and negative outcomes of this program, but also to mature the MGS program into a design-for-reliability methodology that can be utilized in future programs with even greater success.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA513890

Entities

People

  • David J. Rohall
  • Dmitry E. Tananko
  • James Ruma
  • John Paulson
  • N. J. Chang
  • Sharad Kumar

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Vehicles
  • Business Administration
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Complex Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Program Management
  • Reliability
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Resource Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Verification

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  • Engineering

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  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design