Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
27-4-1994 1:00 PM
End Date
27-4-1994 4:00 PM
Description
Space exploration and related investigations have been suffering from programmatic inefficiencies inherent to customized projects. "One-of-a-kind" space investigations such as experiments, installations, platforms, and missions all lack the profit-driven architectures and money-making methodologies that characterize commercial enterprise. The foundation of long-tenm commercial success is in the smart and efficient utilization of capital investment. An enterprise that throws away its tools, its infrastructure, its expertise, and its capital, every time it completes a project is not likely to be able to afford to do so again and again. When resources are scarce, one must utilize them efficiently. Proven commercial methodologies such as standardization, mass production, miniaturization, modular interchangeability, and reusability . of tools, facilities, and resources are the principal techniques by which products can be created "faster-better-cheaper." Commercial investigators in intensely competitive fields, such as biotechnology, have successfully applied these principles to their experimental setups, tools, and support systems. We must similarly employ commercial principles if we are to survive the expensive challenge of future space exploration. This paper introduces a "faster-bettercheaper'' approach for space investigators. The approach employs a tool called ISOBUS.
Paper Session II-A - ISOBUS A Faster, Better, Cheaper Tool for Space Flight Experiments
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Space exploration and related investigations have been suffering from programmatic inefficiencies inherent to customized projects. "One-of-a-kind" space investigations such as experiments, installations, platforms, and missions all lack the profit-driven architectures and money-making methodologies that characterize commercial enterprise. The foundation of long-tenm commercial success is in the smart and efficient utilization of capital investment. An enterprise that throws away its tools, its infrastructure, its expertise, and its capital, every time it completes a project is not likely to be able to afford to do so again and again. When resources are scarce, one must utilize them efficiently. Proven commercial methodologies such as standardization, mass production, miniaturization, modular interchangeability, and reusability . of tools, facilities, and resources are the principal techniques by which products can be created "faster-better-cheaper." Commercial investigators in intensely competitive fields, such as biotechnology, have successfully applied these principles to their experimental setups, tools, and support systems. We must similarly employ commercial principles if we are to survive the expensive challenge of future space exploration. This paper introduces a "faster-bettercheaper'' approach for space investigators. The approach employs a tool called ISOBUS.
Comments
Commercial Utilization
Session Chairman: David Wensley, Vice President and General Manager, Strategic Business Development, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
Session Organizer: Shirley Green, Payload Planning and Customer Support Office, NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL