Cyber Blue Program Review Process

[Paul Copioli]

To all that are reading this thread posted by Chris,

This is what succesful technical companies do. We at FANUC call it an FMEA, because we like acronyms. It stands for Failure Modes Effects Analysis and it is performed exactly as Chris describes it.

What amazes me is that Chris and his team can actually pull this off in the six week FIRST design cycle. I thought we were stretching it by designing everything in CAD before we cut one chip, but the procedure Cyber Blue is incorporating takes A LOT of engineering discipline. I am recommending this thread be at the top of everyone's "to read" list.

Great job Cyber Blue,

Paul

[Chris Fultz]

Final Review was this Monday.

It as a Production Readiness / Operational Readiness Review.

If we were building a turbine engines...
For the Production Readiness Review, we would have focused on our supply chain, manufacturing facilities, parts releases, quality systems, etc. The review would have been to insure that we were ready for full scale production.
For the Operational Readiness Review, we would have focused on field service support, repair facilities, operating manuals, overhaul manuals, and spare parts availability.

But, since we are building 1 robot, our focus was a bit different.

We first showed that the robot we have designed and are building met our requirements. We focused on our "internal requirements", but could have also stepped through the FIRST requirements as well. For each of our requirements, we tried to show proof that we met the requirement - either proven by design data or from demonstrated testing.

The operational readiness focused on the competition capability of the robot. Was it durable and robust, could it take the stress of competition, did we have spare parts ready, and such.

We had the robot partially disassembled so we could not drive for them, but we did show video from the week before.

To close the review we received comments from the reviewers on our process and ways they saw to improve the process of what we were doing. Overall they were very positive.

Our next step is to complete a matrix of complaince to our requriemetns and to continue to review our risk register as we go into the final weekend.

Another unexpected plus form this review was through a new sponsor. We have added Allison Transmission (GM) as a sponsor this season. One of the Engineering Managers was a part of our Technical Advisory Team and he attended most of the reviews. We gained from his involvement, and he has a better understanding of the FIRST program by really being a part of our build process. It was truly a win - win situation.

No more reviews - we have an open house Monday for the community, school, sponsors and others. The TAC will be there and hope to see a fully functional robot driving around, and "hanging around" a bit, also!



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