SMC-S-011 Component, Material and Process Control Program for Disposable Launch Vehicles

“Published by the U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC),The SMC-S-011 standard “Parts, materials, and processes control program for disposable launch vehicles” describes the requirements for the preparation, implementation, and operation of a parts, materials, and processes control program for use during the design, development, and production of mission-critical components on expendable launch vehicles.

The implementation of these requirements is for the following purposes:

• To provide integrated management of selection, application, procurement, control and standardization of parts, materials and processes.
• Increase the reliability of program parts, materials, and processes to reduce failures of parts, materials, and processes at all levels of assembly and testing.
• Reducing program lifecycle costs.
• Improve the procurement and testing of small quantities of parts and materials that meet system requirements.

This standard is intended for use in acquisition contracts for launch vehicle programs. This standard should be displayed as a compliance document in the contract schedule or statement of work. This standard defines the minimum acceptable requirements for expendable launch vehicle applications and, therefore, should not be adapted except as permitted by the contract or specified herein. The requirements are intended to be used at the program level to coordinate the selection, implementation, management, and procurement of parts, materials, and processes throughout the design, development, and manufacturing cycles of an acquisition.

The contractor shall meet the requirements for all parts, materials and processes defined in this standard. The contractor shall establish a parts, materials and processes control program that complies with the requirements of this standard. Subcontractors shall also comply with these requirements.

The contractor must establish and implement a parts, materials and process standardization, management and control program plan. The plan includes all components used in mission critical components. parts, materials and processes The contractor documentation, along with equivalent requirements, shall be submitted for review by the purchasing activity when used and referenced in the plan to meet the requirements specified herein. The plan shall address how the contractor will ensure that applicable part, material, and process control program requirements are implemented and that these requirements flow to subcontractors. The plan shall include:

• A parts, materials, and processes control authority operating procedure, including resolution of parts, materials, and processes issues, holding of special meetings, membership authority, parts, materials, and processes review procedures, parts, materials, and processes approval procedures, subcontractor participation, record retention, and access.
• Including procedures for the selection and approval of parts, materials, and processes intended for inclusion in the program parts, materials, and processes baseline, error conditions for fault-tolerant design practices, and any revisions to a previously approved parts, materials, and processes.
• Definition of the content of the parts, materials and processes selection list and procedures for updating, approving and ensuring appropriate distribution of this list
• Approved manufacturer, including batch homogeneity and traceability control, design and construction including parts, materials and processes to meet technical requirements and design implementation including quality, reliability and performance verification, parts, materials and processes adequacy
• Parts and material application rating
• Supply chain parts, materials and processes requirement flow, implementation and validation
• Inventory control procedures
• Policies and procedures to ensure that design engineers select parts, materials, and processes from an approved program base line of parts, materials, and processes
• Plans and procedures to verify that parts, materials, and processes received and used during production comply with basic quality, reliability, design and construction, batch uniformity, traceability, and performance.
• Plans and procedures for coordination among parts, materials, and process control authority, design engineering, reliability, participation in radiation, anomaly, and failure investigations, quality assurance, nonconforming material control and disposal, and supply chain management
• Definition of authority for parts, materials and processes control in relation to various groups within the main and subcontractor organizations
• Radiation hardness assurance program (Annex J), if applicable
• ANSI/ESD S20.20 or JESD-625 standards for PMP or equivalent
• Plans and procedures for environmental (temperature and humidity) and contamination control, including outgassing, clean room, foreign object spill, cleaning of critical surfaces of component parts and materials during transportation, storage, production and handling
• Plans and procedures for review and disposal of incompatible parts, materials and processes
• Explanations and definitions of general requirements, standard clauses, format requirements and content outlines of the core harmonized source control documents
• Basic rules for using alternative and substitute parts, materials and processes
• Plans and procedures for identifying and controlling parts, materials, and processes of questionable reliability, restricted, restricted use, and prohibited
• Plans and procedures for conducting failure analysis and related review and approval procedures, as required
• Plans and procedures for selecting substitute parts, materials, and processes when essential quality and reliability parts, materials, and processes are not available to ensure that the quality and reliability intended for the design are still met.
• Plans and procedures used to perform hazard analysis for the use of non-mission critical components.
• Plans and procedures are used to prevent and detect counterfeiting of parts, materials and processes
• Plans and procedures used to report purchasing activity and participate in parts, materials, and processes control authorization activities
• Plans and procedures for assessing, continuously monitoring and reducing parts, materials and process obsolescence

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