A webinar titled “RFQ – Now What?: MIL-STD-810: Understanding Your Requirements for Military Equipment” will be presented by Steve Ferguson, Executive Vice President of Washington Laboratories, in four parts throughout 2014. The first part will take place Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. EST. Registration will open Feb. 12.
Overview
Frequently the RFQ includes environmental requirements with little definition on the details – those items that provide the specific expectations. When developing pricing for the RFQ response, the specific knowledge can impact the cost by several thousand dollars and severely impact the development time.
This webinar series presented in one-hour segments for four sessions combine to examine planning execution and reporting your test program. From assessing contract requirement to preparing for test many factors must be understood to assess your qualification program and the details to properly prepare. These points affect many milestones of the product development from proposal preparation and costing to test execution with selection of appropriate test methods and how the methods are applied.
Original specifications date back to WWII, with the initial test withstand requirements developed by the Army Air Force (AAF). Following on military system development in the 1950s, MIL-STD-810G represents the seventh generation of revisions for state-of-the-art in environmental simulation methods to assess all manner of military equipment, from ground-based mobile Army tactical gear to airborne and sub-stratospheric systems
Who should attend:
- Product and proposal managers that need to understand the Environmental compliance requirements specified or not fully defined;
- Compliance engineers responsible for technical Environmental details supporting the product design;
- Laboratory managers and test personnel responsible for developing the test programs;
- Contract technical representatives developing the RFP Environmental requirements;
- Auditors and witnesses to gain insight on how recommended tailoring adjusts the standard.
Part 1: Determining Requirements
Feb. 26, 2014, 1 p.m. EST
This session will examine Environmental compliance requirements either from contract specifications or product self-development. From generic statements requiring MIL-STD-810 compliance to detailed test-by-test definitions there are options for specific tailoring of the individual requirements. We will examine these options with the general requirements specified in the MIL-STD. The various requirements associated with product development are reviewed and how these details invade your overall compliance program.
Part II: Procedure Development
May 28, 2014, 1 p.m. EST
This session looks at the details of preparing a test procedure. Making sure that the product is configured, operated and monitored along with identification of the pass/fail criteria is essential.. An in-depth review on configuring the test article is included – a condition that is frequently not understood by the manufacturer and the test laboratory doesn’t usually have policing power. The configuration is not managed properly in many scenarios and tailoring not used to match a specific installation. Making sure that you include the escape clauses in case of events is discussed
Part III: Conducting the Test Program
Aug. 27, 2014, 1 p.m. EST
This session discusses the EUT operation and sequencing the test program to avoid contamination and to expedite by accomplishing tests in parallel. Measurement equipment operation during test is critical, so a study into settings and the effects of those settings is reviewed. Managing test interruptions is included in the discussion and above all the data collection – and let us not forget data review during test to make sure that the data makes sense.
Part IV: Reports – Conveying the Message
Nov. 19, 2014, 1 p.m. EST
To end the series, we will review the reporting content – providing detail without all the fluff. The use of charts and photographs is considered necessary and can provide a lot of insight if properly used. Our discussion will focus on content and presentation – but beware that the accepting office may have established standards.
