Group 7 (2005)

Student Members:
Stephen J. Valois
Thomas Schwinn
Peter Wheeler
Daniel Rodrigues

Faculty Advisor:
Professor Philip Viall

Project Title:
Test Program Set (TPS) for the Virginia Class Submarine DC Relay Circuit Card Assembly

Project Description (provided by group):
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems has received follow-on contracts from the US Navy to provide program management, systems engineering, configuration management, and materials procurement for the manufacture, test and integration of the combat control group subsystem of the VA Class attack submarine. As part of the on-going effort to reduce manufacturing costs in order to meet contractual requirements, the VA Class PMO is constantly looking for ways to improve manufacturing test efficiency. The DC Relay module which is a subsystem of the combat control system is a perfect candidate for a test automation upgrade as it is currently bench tested at a minimum of 4 hrs with an engineering Design Verification Test (DVT) box. The team successfully converted the manual manufacturing test to an automated test station controlled by a PC. The test time has been reduced to 95 seconds from 4 hours.