VALIDATION OF DISCARD-AT-FAILURE MAINTENANCE MATHEMATICAL MODEL (2005)
Purvis, Russell E., McLaughlin, R. L.
A description is presented of the procedure and results of an investigation to perform an empirical validation of a repair-at-failure maintenance (RAFM) versus discard-at-failure maintenance (DAFM)...
THE VALIDATION OF A MAINTAINABILITY PREDICTION TECHNIQUE FOR AN AIRBORNE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM. (2005)
Retterer,B. L., Griswold,G. H., McLaughlin,R. L., Topmiller,Donald A.
A technique for predicting the maintainability, at the field maintenance level, of airborne electronic equipment was investigated. In the technique, which was based on one previously developed for...
CRITERIA FOR VALUE ENGINEERING. PHASE I. FEASIBILITY STUDY. (2005)
Purvis,R. E., McLaughlin,R. L.
The state of the art of value engineering is summarized a value analysis technique is proposed with the following characteristics: (a) Quantification of value consistent with established USAF...
QUEUEING TABLES FOR DETERMINING SYSTEM MANNING AND RELATED SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS. (2005)
Purvis, R. E., McLaughlin, R. L., Mallory, W. K.
There has been a need for a method by which to quantitatively predict manning requirements of various system designs, and especially within any one design to depict the probable interplay between...
Microbial hyaluronic acid production (2005)
Chong, B. F., Blank, L., McLaughlin, R. L., Nielsen, L. K.
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a commercially valuable medical biopolymer increasingly produced through microbial fermentation. Viscosity limits product yield and the focus of research and development has...