Specialty Engineering

The Curtiss Wright Controls Defense Solutions Specialty Engineering has an established –ilities team under System Engineering consisting of Reliability/Maintainability/Safety (RMS) Engineering and ILS Engineering. We have experience and capability to support Performance Based Logistics (PBL) and maintenance requirements as well as working closely with dedicated depot centers.

  • Human factors and safety engineering (products are evaluated against the specification, MIL-HDBK-454, MIL-STD-1472, and MIL-HDBK-882 as they apply to the program)
  • ILS and PBL capability and support
  • Technical manuals, training material/courses and support documentation
  • LSA per MIL-STD-1388-2B or GEIA-STD-0007 guidelines
  • LORA and LCC analysis (COMPASS STAT Version 6.2.0)

Curtiss Wright Controls Defense Solutions has successfully developed and delivered/ deployed equipment for various branches of service with similar functional and operational capabilities. ILS is familiar with and successful in supporting maintenance programs on various military programs. ILS provides technical assistance and effective product support on existing equipment on the field ensuring it meets the reliability, maintainability, availability, and supportability requirements.

Supportability/Availability

ILS Engineering capabilities include analysis and determine the requirements for spares and warranty provisions, transportation, storage, packaging, handling, and trade-off on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Nondevelopmental Items (NDI). Obsolescence (End of Life) and long lead items are identified during maintenance planning to ensure availability is not at risk.

CWCDS has an established repair station that accommodates repair of all return units under contracts and proactively supports the failure investigation on the equipment/unit. Curtiss Wright Controls Defense Solutions embraces the PBL concept to optimize total system availability at minimum cost and logistics footprint in order to provide the customers and users optimum benefits in using the products and services of CWCDS.

  • Reliability predictions (MIL-HDBK-217F and ANSI/VITA 51.1)
  • Failure modes, effects and criticality analysis
  • Process failure modes and effects analysis
  • Maintainability analysis per MIL-STD-470, MIL-HDBK-472, and MIL-HDBK-2084 as applicable
  • Fault tree analysis
  • Finite element analysis
  • Thermal analysis
  • Component derating and analysis
  • Testability analysis
  • Redundancy
  • HALT/ALT

Curtiss Wright Controls Defense Solutions’ standard reliability prediction practice follows MIL-HDBK- 217F and ANSI/VITA 51.1 guidelines. In addition, CWCDS has performed predictions using the PRISM and 217Plus models. CWCDS currently uses Relex to support its reliability prediction efforts.

Curtiss-Wright design for reliability and maintainability capabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
  • Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
  • Fault Tree Analysis
  • Reliability Predictions
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Component De-rating
  • Testability Analysis
  • Redundancy
  • Lessons Learned
  • Trade-off, cost-benefit analyses

Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Engineering

Curtiss-Wright has an established Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) team. The Logistics Engineer Specialist is responsible for the logistics data requirements. Its primary function is to support the Product Design and Development and sustaining activities to ensure that all logistics requirements, including reliability, maintainability, supportability, and availability requirements are met and incorporated in the equipment design.

The Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) per MIL-STD-1388-2B is performed concurrent with the product design and development. ILS engineering team collaborates with the System Engineering and other functional teams during Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) and/or Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis to determine the most effective and economical cost of ownership. In addition, the Human Factors and Safety Engineering are integrated within the product design process. This effort is interrelated, sequential, and continuing throughout all program phases. It influences facility, support equipment, procedures, and personnel selection. The Logistics Engineer is also responsible for the development of Technical Manual and Training material for deliverable equipment. Deliverable data can be tailored to acceptable format that meets the customer’s requirements.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions' Systems Engineering Capabilities