Engine Production and
Process Analysis Study
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Sara Keller OC-ALC/MAEP Sara.Keller@tinker.af.mil 405-736-5484 |
Leonard Hayes OC-ALC/MAEPM Leonard.Hayes@tinker.af.mil 405-736-4401 |
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3.0 Anticipated Tasks /Methodology
The Engine Production Division (OC-ALC/MAE) of Tinker Air Force Base has an ongoing requirement to perform periodic assessment of their Retirement For Cause (RFC) Eddy Current Inspection Systems (ECIS) variance in calibration, including the requirement to master gage when an inspection is performed in a location with multiple instruments / machines; and methods of assessing repeatability, including variances due to scanning and scanning systems.
The creation of the U.S. Air force Eddy Current Center of Excellence at OC-ALC, has generated the largest consolidation of RFC ECIS hardware in the world. Without a doubt, technical and logistics challenges have arisen which have only permitted, this periodic assessment (Process Control) to be partially implemented. MAE desires to fully implement this Process Control to manage the performance of its fleet of RFC ECIS and their associated processes
Develop a process model that will periodically assess and control the RFC ECIS inspection capability acceptable tolerance band . This process model will impact the Engine Inspection Base Life Management of fracture Critical Components as part of the U.S. Air Force Engine Structural Integrity Program (ENSIP). Government has a preference for the University to work with Veridian Engineering, the RFC ECIS Original Equipment Manufacturer, who already maintains this product worldwide and performs portions of the said Process Control
Please provide the anticipated Project Period of Performance. For the 2003 CASI program, the following schedules/periods of performance are allowed if you have no idea then so state and it probably can be figured out by your expected tasks descriptions (you may wish to include this list and check all of the periods of performance that you would accept, i.e.) (note: during the summer the professors can work on the project fulltime but during the academic year they can only work part time):
[ ] Execution and Completion of Project between June 1 and August 31, 2003.
[ ] Execution and Completion of Project between June 1 and May 31, 2004
[ ] Executed as a single project, or
[ ] Executed in two or more phases with an intermediate set of deliverables and successful completion of the intermediate deliverables required before funding successive phase(s). NOTE: CASI research phases will normally have completion dates that correspond to the academic researcher’s semester schedule, i.e., August 15 or December 31.
[X ] Execution and Completion of Project between August 15, 2003 and May 31, 2004
[ ] Executed as a single project, or
[ ] Executed in two or more phases with an intermediate set of deliverables and successful completion of the intermediate deliverables required before funding successive phase(s). NOTE: CASI research phases will normally have completion dates that correspond to the academic researcher’s semester schedule, i.e., August 15 or December 31.
[ ] Execution as the first phase of a multi-year project. NOTE: Due to funding mechanisms, only the effort between June 1, 2003 and May 31, 2004 can be funded by the 2003 CASI program. The project must produce a set of intermediate deliverables at the end of the 2003 funding cycle and funding of successive phases/years is contingent upon funding availability, project priority, and performance.