Chronology of Continuous Improvement of the World’s Best FMECA Standard

Abstract

In August 2015, the second edition of AIAA Standard S-102.2.4-2015, Capability-based FMECA Requirements [1], was released for sale in the public domain. Upon its release, this document became the world’s best FMECA standard, according to the US Army Redstone Arsenal Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) Division. Three years earlier, a civil servant at LOGSA named Mr. David Hawthorne, was assigned to head a team of government FMECA experts that would evaluate several commercial FMECA standards there were well-known at the time. Metaphorically, this government team had marching orders to down-select to one, the number of commercial FMECA standards that can be easily updated to meet the US Army’s weapons acquisition needs. When this evaluation concluded, the government team’s consensus recommendation was to update the ANSI/AIAA Standard, S-102.2.4-2009: Performance-based FMECA Requirements, to meet the US Army’s weapons acquisition needs.