NASA, DoD and the Commercial Space

Some Current Issues with Aircraft, Terrestrial, Maritime or  Spacebound Payloads may include  the following: 

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•   Space Bound Component Failures

•   Advanced Manufacturing without Up-to-Date Quality Best Practices

•   Long Term Storage & Handling Issues 

•   Lack of Traceability" for Material Integrity

•   Offshore Substitution of OEM Materials without Qualification 

•   Supplier Non-Conformance

•   Obsolete Industry Practices not Keeping Pace with Innovation

•   Suspect Counterfeiting or Anti-Counterfeiting

•   Class 0 Device (less real estate) generating issues Not Seen in the Past

•   Lack of Certification Training

•   Web Format Training vs. “Hands On” In Laboratory Training 

•   Continued Use of limited shelf life material in Manufacturing/Assembly

•   Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems in harsh environments

•   Contract Assembly Areas or "Kitting" without Current Protocols

•   Contract Manufacturer Original and 'Substitute' Packaging

•   "Grey" Market materials due to the :Lowest Price" 

•   Data Center Flooring Not "Certified" before purchase

•   Equipment Centers 

•   Incoming Raw Materials for R&D Requirements

•   Incoming Supplier Packaging by "Visual Inspection" only 

•   In-Process Production Equipment

•   Ionization Oversold for Controlled/Sterile Environments

•   Ionization in Factories without prior "Validation"before Buy

•   Long Term Storage Packaging and Austere Environments

•   Operating Room Flooring without current specifications

•   Robotics Equipment and RH

•    Non-Compliant or "Suspect Counterfeit" Packaging, Materials & Components

•   Wrong Usage of Test Instrumentation 

•   Workstations, Benches, Monitoring and Accessories