Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Principles:

1. the SQA assessment and quality assurance system should be understandable to
   stakeholders, effectively administered, publicly accountable and cost effective
   to operate
   
2. qualifications should be accessible to all candidates who have the potential to
   achieve them
   
3. the criteria which define the performance required of candidates for them to
   achieve qualifications should be appropriate to purpose, explicit and in the
   public domain
   
4. each unit, course and group award should be unique and necessary, and should
   comply with the relevant qualification specification
   
5. assessments should be valid, reliable and practicable, and assessment results
   should be in line with qualification criteria
   
6. qualifications should be offered in centres which have the resources and
   expertise to assess candidates against the qualification’s criteria
   
7. staff in centres should be provided with effective support in assessing
   candidates for certification
   
8. responsibility for quality assurance should be devolved to centres where this is
   consistent with the maintenance of national standards
   
   

Quality Assurance

What are the advantages of quality assurance?

Quality asurance is used to deliver the quality product to the client according to his requirements and budget.

It makes sure that the software developed without any defects

the primary focus of QA is on facilitation, training, audits and QA reviews, there by ensuring defect free products.

Engineering Issues by Justisiano Nurak, ST: Logistic

Engineering Issues by Justisiano Nurak, ST: Logistic

The ten logistics elements

Support and Test Equipment

Support and test equipment includes all equipment, mobile and fixed, that is required to perform the support functions, except that equipment which is an integral part of the system. Support equipment categories include:

1. Handling and maintenance equipment.
2. Tools (hand tools as well as power tools).
3. Metrology and measurement devices.
4. Calibration equipment.
5. Test equipment.
6. Automatic test equipment.
7. Support equipment for on- and off-equipment maintenance.
8. Special inspection equipment and depot maintenance plant equipment, which includes all equipment and tools required to assemble, disassemble, test, maintain, and support the production and/or depot repair of end items or components.
   

This also encompasses planning and acquisition of logistic support for this equipment.

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The ten logistics elements

Supply Support

Supply support encompasses all management actions, procedures, and techniques used to determine requirements to:

1. Acquire support items and spare parts.
2. Catalog the items.
3. Receive the items.
4. Store and warehouse the items.
5. Transfer the items to where they are needed.
6. Issue the items.
7. Dispose of secondary items.
8. Provide for initial support of the system.
9. Acquire, distribute, and replenish inventory.
   

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The ten logistics elements

Maintenance Planning

Maintenance planning begins early in the acquisition process with development of the maintenance concept. It is conducted to evolve and establish requirements and tasks to be accomplished for achieving, restoring, and maintaining the operational capability for the life of the system. Maintenance planning relies on Level Of Repair Analysis (LORA) as a function of the system acquisition process. Maintenance planning will:

1. Define the actions and support necessary to ensure that the system attains the specified system readiness objectives within minimum Life Cycle Cost.
2. Set up specific criteria for repair, including Built-In Test Equipment (BITE) requirements, testability, reliability, and maintainability; support equipment requirements; automatic test equipment); and manpower skills and facility requirements.
3. State specific maintenance tasks, to be performed on the system.
4. Define actions and support required for fielding and marketing the system.
5. Address warranty considerations.
6. The maintenance concept must ensure prudent use of manpower and resources. When formulating the maintenance concept, analysis of the proposed work environment on the health and safety of maintenance personnel must be considered.
7. Conduct a LORA to optimize the support system, in terms of LCC, readiness objectives, design for discard, maintenance task distribution, support equipment and ATE, and manpower and personnel requirements.
8. Minimize the use of hazardous materials and the generation of waste.
   

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Logistic

What is integrated logistic?

Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is a technique introduced by the US Army to ensure that the supportability of an equipment is considered during its design and development. The technique was adopted by the UK MOD in 1993 and made compulsory for the procurement of the majority of MOD equipment. The aim of ILS is to address three aspects of supportability during the acquistion of the equipment.

• Influence on Design. This is an iterative process during the design of the main equipment to ensure that supportability aspects are considered. This is to ensure that user maintenance and routine servicing tasks can be performed easily and that existing tools and techniques can be used.
  

• Design of the Support Solution. Ensuring that the Support Solution considers and integrates the elements considered by ILS. This is discussed fully below.
  

• Determination and Procurement of the Initial Support Package. This calculates the requirement for spares, special tools and documentmentation is defined and that the quantity required for a given period is calculated, procured and delivered to support the delivery and operation of the main eaquipment.
  

The ILS management process which facilitates development and integration of the 10 individual logistic support elements to specify, design, develop, acquire, test, field, and support systems. There are 10 ILS elements:

1. Maintenance planning
2. Supply support
3. Support and Test Equipment/Equipment support
4. Manpower and personnel
5. Training and training support
6. Technical data
7. Computer Resources support
8. Facilities
9. Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation (PHS&T)
10. Design interface
    

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