Chapter 11: Quality on the HorizonPart III: Switching Transient (1980-1989); Chapter 12: Crossing the Operational Divide; Chapter 13: Stocking the Shelves; Chapter 14: Hammered; Chapter 15: Battlegrounds: Reorganization and Reform; Chapter 16: Implementing Change in a Changing World; Part IV: Shorting to Ground (1989-2002); Chapter 17: Leap First, Look Later; Chapter 18: Hardly Standing PAT; Part V: Resetting the Circuit Breakers; Chapter 19: Brewing the Perfect Storm; Long Lead Time; Minimum-Buy Requirements; Greater Reliability Demonstrated Begets Greater Reliability Demanded.Chapter 20: Summing the PartsEpilogue: Can One Ever Truly Go Home Again?; Path 1: Stay the Course; Path 2: A Repair Shop in Every Orbit; Path 3: Garbage in-High Reliability out; Path 4: Henry Ford in Space; Index.Cost and Schedule Constraints Cause False ShortcutsRising Consumer Electronics Market Volume and Competitiveness; Rise of Commercial Space; Cost of Infrastructure; Loss of Sponsorship for Basic Research; Complexities of the Marketplace; Loss of Engineers in Acquisition; Loss of Standards; Loss of Industry Data Sharing; Loss of Insight to Contractor Activities; Loss of In-Factory Government Plant Representatives; Lack of Pragmatic Standards Approach across Device Types; The End of the Cold War and the "Peace Dividend"; Increasing Device Complexity; Push for the Most Advanced Technology.High reliability electronics engineering is one of the key driving forces for economic recovery. This book offers a focused study of the history and uses of high reliability solid state electronics, military standards, and space systems that support national security and defense. Unique in combining the interdependent evolution of and interrelationships among military standards, solid state electronics, and very highreliability space systems, it offers essential knowledge for those in the fields of aerospace, engineering, instrumentation, measurement, testing, and quality controlTitle page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Program Names; Part I: Activation Energy (1931-1968); Chapter 1: Washington ... We Have a Problem . . .; Chapter 2: The Quantum Leap; Chapter 3: Preparation; Chapter 4: The Final Frontiers; Chapter 5: Minuteman Means Reliability; Chapter 6: Skinning Cats; Part II: Startup Transient (1969-1980); Chapter 7: Changing the Sea State; Chapter 8: Space Parts: From A to S; Chapter 9: There's S, and Then There's S; Chapter 10: A Little Revolution Now and Then Is Good.


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    Title :

    Implosion : lessons from national security, high reliability spacecraft, electronics, and the forces which changed them


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)




    Type of media :

    Book


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    50.01
    RVK:    ZO 8050
    DDC:    623/.0430973





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