Hey Steve, 

Just to throw in my two cents' worth, I would advise taking the contract, if your customer will allow you to use the J-STD for specs.  Make sure your hitting the class 3 ideals and be prepared to have everything inspected more than once.  If you are already doing J-STD and doing it well, this should be a slam dunk for your company.

  

Eric Kalgren
BFGoodrich Aerospace
Space Flight Systems
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>>> Phil Crepeau <[log in to unmask]> 7/19/2000 9:12:31 AM >>>
hi,

here is my feeling about this (obviously).  it's very difficult to process parts in a factory where the requirements for some parts are significantly different than requirements for others.  i would suspect that the only way it would work would be if all parts were processed to the levels of the highest requirements.  this could be very, very painful.

phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:21 AM
To: [log in to unmask] 
Subject: [TN] Space Electronics...


Hi ya'll!

Here where I work, we do a lot of hi-rel, military stuff. But we've recently
got a bid package of twenty or so assemblies that go into satellites. We sat
down and had a meeting about this business of whether or not we should pursue
it...

I voiced my concerns in that I don't think anybody really has a clue of what
kind of massive undertaking this will be given the way that we do things now.
"But Steve, we build hi-reliabilty assemblies now..." and my reply has been;
"But you ain't seen nothing yet!, the process requirements that must followed
to the letter, and the documentation trail that will go along with each and
every board is going to be massive..."

I don't have any first-hand experience building space hardware, but what
little I've learned or heard about it, made such an impression on me that I
know that it's not something that I would want to get into...

Those of you that are into this stuff; am I over-reacting or what? Can your
average contract assembly company (that does have experience with military
electronics) jump into this? Some are poo-poo'ing me saying I'm sweating
things too much...I don't think I am.

-Steve Gregory-

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