Munitions manufacturing : a call for modernization / Committee to Evaluate the Totally Integrated Munitions Enterprise (TIME) Program.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Evaluate the Totally Integrated Munitions Enterprise (TIME) Program.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military supplies.

Military weapons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Munitions Manufacturing""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""STATEMENT OF TASK""; ""MAIN FINDINGS""; ""MAIN CONCLUSIONS""; ""MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Budgetary and Management Issues""; ""Technical and Program Approaches""; ""Special Recommendation""; ""1 Munitions Manufacturing in the United States ""; ""HISTORY AND CURRENT STATUS""; ""THE TOTALLY INTEGRATED MUNITIONS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM""; ""Background""; ""Vision, Goals, and Objectives""; ""Program Description""; ""Program Elements""; ""Metrics for Judging Success""; ""Deliverables""

""Program Funding""""STUDY OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH""; ""Charge to the Committee""; ""Frame of Reference for the Committee""; ""Committee Analysis""; ""2 Enterprise Integration ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""TECHNOLOGIES ENABLING AGILE MANUFACTURING""; ""Background""; ""Methodology""; ""Demonstration Projects""; ""Difficulties of Enterprise Integration""; ""NETWORKING AND CONNECTIVITY""; ""ASSESSMENT OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION""; ""Supply Chain Management""; ""Problem Definition""; ""Details of Enterprise Integration""; ""Concluding Discussion""; ""3 The Approach to Munitions Replenishment ""

""INTRODUCTION""""MUNITIONS REPLENISHMENT POLICY""; ""TOTALLY INTEGRATED MUNITIONS ENTERPRISE REPLENISHMENT STRATEGY""; ""CONCERNS REGARDING REPLENISHMENT""; ""Commercial Manufacturing Environment in the Year 2000""; ""Remote Operation of Equipment""; ""Agile, Lean Manufacturing""; ""Replenishment as a Technology Transfer Problem""; ""Labor Force for Replenishment""; ""State of the Art""; ""Organizational Learning""; ""Needs Assessment Tools""; ""Theoretical Approaches for Organizational Learning""; ""Theoretical Approaches for Representing Organizational Learning""

""Managing Workforce Maintenance and Development""""Maintenance of Replenishment Manufacturing Capability""; ""4 Product Realization ""; ""APPROACH TO PRODUCT REALIZATION""; ""Vision""; ""Case Study: Product Realization""; ""Background""; ""Modeling and Simulation Tools""; ""Mechanical Piece Parts""; ""Product Realization Model""; ""Concept Optimization""; ""Design Optimization""; ""Execution""; ""Conceptual Design Cockpit""; ""COMMITTEE ASSESSMENT""; ""Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing""; ""Modeling and Simulation""; ""Importance of First Prototype""; ""Realization""

""Multidisciplinary Design""""Rapid Prototyping""; ""Knowledge, Expertise, and Reasoning""; ""Realization Speed""; ""5 Controllers ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""INDUSTRIAL NEEDS AND DESIRES""; ""COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF CONTROLLERS""; ""Difficult Domain-to-Domain Integration""; ""Large-Packet Delivery Latencies""; ""Large Timeouts Due to Packet Failure""; ""EFFORTS TO DEVELOP OPEN MODULAR ARCHITECTURE CONTROLLERS""; ""Concept of Open Architecture""; ""History of Open Architecture""; ""International Efforts""; ""Department of Energy Involvement in OMAC""

""Approach to the Needs of Commercial and Munitions Industries""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

560257423