New Supplier - Hardware Duplication - Some Pitfalls

摘要

Companies, for many reasons, often need to task a new supplier to duplicate the design and manufacture of a product that has already been qualified and flown on one of their earlier systems. This paper deals with such a situation. The conflicts that arise when required to include characteristics other than those defining the specific performance and dimensional requirements of the product is explored. While this paper uses the "reverse engineering" of a motor as the means to describe some of these problems, the basic conflicts and conditions can apply to other areas and products.