Cost-effective approach to quality assurance via failure modes and effects analysis for the development of GIRMOS for the Gemini North Telescope

Mark Barnet; Suresh Sivanandam; Francis Frenzel; Scott Christie; Shawn Barbod; Ruben Diaz; Martin Tschimmel

doi:10.1117/12.3020312

23 August 2024 Cost-effective approach to quality assurance via failure modes and effects analysis for the development of GIRMOS for the Gemini North Telescope

Mark Barnet, Suresh Sivanandam, Francis Frenzel, Scott Christie, Shawn Barbod, Ruben Diaz, Martin Tschimmel

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Proceedings Volume 13099, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy XI; 130991E (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020312
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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The Gemini Infra-Red Multi-Object Spectrograph (GIRMOS) is a high-resolution integral-field spectroscope and imager being built by a consortium of Canadian universities and institutions, along with the International Gemini Observatory (Gemini) and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI). The team needed a cost-effective way to bring a degree in Product and Quality Assurance to bear on instrument development, but without availability of a dedicated team. Advice and support from the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Systems Engineering Team enabled GIRMOS to tailor and scale the TMT approach to fit within the available resources of a much smaller project. This Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method more easily allowed geographically distributed subsystem teams to work independently within an agreed-upon FMEA framework that rolled up into a System-level analysis. The TMT FMEA framework reduced the effort involved in all the follow-on work that used the same data set, namely sparing analysis, reliability and uptime analyses, and accelerated life testing.

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Mark Barnet, Suresh Sivanandam, Francis Frenzel, Scott Christie, Shawn Barbod, Ruben Diaz, and Martin Tschimmel "Cost-effective approach to quality assurance via failure modes and effects analysis for the development of GIRMOS for the Gemini North Telescope", Proc. SPIE 13099, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy XI, 130991E (23 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020312

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