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Mitigating Diminishing Manufacturing Sources/Material Shortages (Dms/Ms) And Obsolescence For The T-6 Canopy Fracturing Initiation System (Cfis), Richard P. Carrano
Mitigating Diminishing Manufacturing Sources/Material Shortages (Dms/Ms) And Obsolescence For The T-6 Canopy Fracturing Initiation System (Cfis), Richard P. Carrano
Theses and Dissertations
The Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) lost the supplier for its canopy fracturing initiation system (CFIS) with no prospect for a replacement. This forced a complete CFIS redesign to supply both an active production line and sustain fielded aircraft. Compounding the problem, the existing CFIS became obsolete, which forced an interim design to be produced until a final long term solution was fielded. This thesis developed a method to optimize the redesign by determining the lowest cost path for both fielding the interim design and phasing in the final retrofit. Using the Excel Solver® modeling program, an optimal rate …