Date: 3/11/2004
To: Darren Marsh
Cc: Dr. Robert Johnson, Riccardo Bagagli, Dave RiCh
From: Richard Gobin
RE: MRB BIAS CIRCUIT LAT-DS-000192
Minutes of MRB meeting held
in Bldg. 84 SLUO 8:00a.m. – 9:00a.m.
March 11, 2004.
PN: LAT-DS-000192 rev. 6
LAT TRACKER TRAY BIAS
CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY
Supplier: Parlex Corp., San
Jose, Ca.
The following agenda was
followed during this morning’s MRB.
1. Present documented evidence/facts of failure or
non-conformance.
a. What, where, why, when, how?
2. Overstress analysis or additional testing required?
3. Suspected root cause? (present evidence as to why).
4. Impact to inventory, WIP, supplier PO, already built
product.
5. Corrective action to prevent recurrence.
a. Design, test, procedure options, trades & recommendation.
b. Recommended Was/Is change description.
c. Impacts to other subsystems.
d. Affected documentation. (dwg, ICD, existing analysis,
supplier EIDP).
e. Verification plan to validate effective corrective
action.
f. Estimated costs & impact to schedule.
6. Effectiveness of corrective action
a. Any modification to performance capability.
b. Impact on FMEA, reliability, risk assessment.
7. Recommended final disposition(s):
a. Rework
b. Repair
c. Return To Vendor
d. Reclassify
e. Scrap/Purge
f. Use As Is
8. Action items: who-what-ECD.
This
primary focus of this MRB was to discuss the deviation of the released Bias
Circuit drawing as stated in NCR 00065 as well as the impact to the science and
technical justification regarding the first 50 Bias Circuit shipment from
Parlex which are to be delivered with the 0.50 oz. copper foil. (0.50 oz per
square foot.) Drawing note 4, states copper thickness to be 0.25 oz copper per
square foot.
Cause
of this discrepancy falls with the supplier not having the 0.25 oz copper
available for flight production and LAT engineering accepting this drawing
specification deviation. The 0.50 oz copper was available for immediate use in
production from supplier, Parlex, with the understanding of the long lead time
for the 0.25 oz copper. However, Parlex has notified LAT that the 0.25 oz
copper will become available Friday March 12, 2004 for the next flight
production run.
Due
to the long lead time of the 0.25 oz copper, supplier, Parlex, was given a
verbal approval to begin flight production for the first 50 Bias Circuits only.
The critical path/schedule for these Bias Circuits would be adversely impacted
for assembly into Towers at INFN if the production of the Bias Circuits was
delayed. We currently do not have any flight approved Bias Circuits in
inventory. We currently have a PO pending for future flight production.
Parlex
is to have 50 flight Bias Circuits available for on site Source Inspection,
Friday, March 12, 2004. Richard Gobin is to perform the source inspection, if
flight Bias Circuits are acceptable, Richard is to hand carry all 50 flight
Bias Circuits back to LAT QA Bldg. 33 to incoming receiving, who will follow
procedure to receive flight hardware.
The
agreed upon plan was to have the flight Bias Circuits packaged properly for
delivery in Italy on Friday afternoon. Dr. Johnson was to receive 48 flight
Bias Circuits on his way to the airport and hand carry to Italy.
Two
flight Bias Circuits were to be diverted to Bldg. 25, Ton Nakashima, for first
article dimensional inspection and documentation.
As
of 2:00 pm today, I was notified by Jerry Clinton, that Parlex has had a
problem with production and the 50 flight Bias Circuits will not be ready for
Source Inspection on Friday as planned. It is anticipated, Source Inspection
will be performed on Monday, March 15th. This obviously impacts our agreed upon plan for Dr. Johnson to
carry these 50 flight Bias Circuits to Italy on Monday, March 15th.
We
are forced to adjust our plans and will document what will be agreed upon early
next week.
The
MRB has agreed to USE AS IS as a final disposition to NCR 00065. However,
during the MRB discussion it was revealed the software for the Towers is
impacted using the 0.50 oz copper foil. It is not promised that Italy can
assure only a single Tower will utilize these flight Bias Circuits, there may
be a co-mingling of the 0.25 oz copper and the 0.50 oz copper in more than one
Tower.
LAT
SAS, software engineer, Richard Dubois, will be notified to review this issue
and his documented findings annotated in NCR 00065 prior to closure.
A
secondary concern, which the MRB discussed, was how INFN is to assure proper
documented traceability of these 48 flight Bias Circuits throughout their
assembly and testing processes. The Bias Circuit drawing, note 11, requires all
flight Bias Circuits to be marked with identifying serial numbers. The serial
numbers for the first 48 Bias Circuits are to be annotated, along with the NCR
number, 00065, on all travelers, utilizing these 48 Bias Circuits, at INFN for
process and traceability assurance.
During
the MRB discussion it was also revealed that early April, 2004, is when these
Bias Circuits will be needed at INFN, due to production and testing schedule
conflicts. Because of this information,
in addition to the information regarding the supplier, Parlex, slipping their
production commitment, these flight Bias Circuits will be shipped via the
‘normal’ shipping means from Bldg 33, SLAC to Italy as soon as the Bias
Circuits are received into SLAC Bldg. 33.
Action Items:
Respectfully,
Richard Gobin
X3270