Wayne Brown VP, Quality & Mission Assurance Raytheon

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Near Horizon Trends in Quality

Wayne BrownVP, Quality & Mission AssuranceRaytheon Missile Systems (RMS)

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Near Horizon Trends in Quality - Agenda

Enhanced Sub-tier Supplier Insight

Maturing How We Measure Performance

Eliminate Escapes & Reduce Cost of Poor Quality

Evolving Focus

Current / Emerging Technology Challenges

Broadening the Role

Summary

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EVOLVING FOCUSNear Horizon Trends in Quality



RMS Shifting Emphasis on Quality

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Prevent

Protect

Improve

Detect

Report

Correct

R E Q U I R E D P R O G R E S S I O N

P R O A C T I V ER E A C T I V E

Building on these

strengths…they will

always be needed.



Increasing Focus on Defect Prevention

Ensuring appropriate lifecycle gating compliance

Ensuring design correctly addresses customer mission rqmts.

Ensuring capability to monitor & improve sub-tier performance

Ensuring optimum producibility and inspectability

Providing input to program risks based on producibility

Key areas of focus for leveraging Lessons Learned:

P R O G R A M M A N A G E M E N T

D E S I G N A S S U R A N C E

S U P P LY C H A I N I N S I G H T

R E Q U I R E M E N T S A N A LY S I S

R I S K & O P P O R T U N I T Y M A N A G E M E N T

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Leveraging Lessons-Learned to Optimize Design for Producibility



Near Horizon Trends in Quality

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BROADENING THE ROLE



Systems Assurance –Key Quality Roles in Systems Design

Provide input to program risks based on producibility lessons learned

Ensure inspectability, testability, and producibility are considered during requirements development

Ensure appropriate consideration of product, system, and software requirements

Ensure engineering program documentation correctly

incorporates customer mission requirements

Ensure reliability predictions and analysis are performed

Identify and resolve systemic failures

Requirements Analysis and

Validation

Risk Assessment

and Management

System Safety

Product Reliability

Failure Review and Reporting

Design Assurance

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Lower cost with complex product familiesImproved producibilityReduced manufacturingrelated costs and schedulesReduced recurring defects

Concurrent and collaborative engineeringReduced engineering defects and reworkAccelerated development scheduleImproved system and software reliability

Improved requirementsMore complete evaluation of trade spaceEarlier risk identification and mitigationEarlier evaluation of manufacturing feasibility

Systems Assurance –Key Outcomes

Customer Needs Analysis

Concept Development

Requirements Development

Detailed Design &

DevelopmentIntegration and Test

Production & Development

Operational Support

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MATURING HOW WE MEASURE PERFORMANCENear Horizon Trends in Quality



Metrics to Facilitate Improved Performance

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Manufacturing Cost of Delayed Engineering Changes

Impact of Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) and Defects Per Unit Reductions to Earned Value projections

Effectiveness of Transition to Production

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ENHANCED SUB-TIER SUPPLIER INSIGHTNear Horizon Trends in Quality



Leveraging of Industry Partners for Increases Common Requirements– Starting Joint Audits with Industry Prime Partners– NADCAP Penetration

Focuses Efforts– Sub-tier flowdown and purchase order

placement process– Detailed Compliance Matrix Review– AS9103 Compliance

Enhanced Sub-Tier Supplier Insight

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Leveraging Industry Partners for Increased Sub-Tier Management

Focused Efforts



Current / Emerging Technology ChallengesNear Horizon Trends in Quality

E l e c t r i c a l & E l e c t r o n i c A s s e m b l y

A d d i t i v e M a n u f a c t u r i n g

H y p e r s o n i c s



Enhanced Quality Focus –Electrical & Electronics Assembly

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▪ Enhanced Requirements - Soldering

▪ Enhanced Requirements - Connectors

▪ Software / Firmware

▪ Data Communication

Circuit Cards

Connectors

Cyber Resiliency

IPC-610 & J-STD Space Addendum

IPC-620 Space Addendum

AS9115 – QMS for Deliverable Software



Enhanced Quality Focus –Additive Manufacturing

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▪ Material Qualification Process ▪ Material Traceability & Counterfeit Controls

▪ In-Process Monitoring & Controls▪ Maturing Quality Plans

▪ In-Process Controls▪ Non-Destructive Evaluation Techniques

Material Management

Processing

Verification



Enhanced Quality Focus –Hypersonics

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▪ Advanced Materials▪ Material Processing & Testing

▪ Enhanced Vibe Characteristics▪ Latency Harmonization

▪ Boost Glide Characteristics▪ Computational Fluid Dynamics

Hardware

Electronics

Propulsion



SUMMARYNear Horizon Trends in Quality



It’s all About Preventing Issues & Getting Results

Best-in-class capabilities

Enhanced reliability

More effective Quality professionals

Predictable performance

Reduced variability

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QUESTIONS?

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Wayne Brown VP, Quality & Mission Assurance Raytheon