Braze FeedbackLoop: Concurrent, Data-Driven Support for Product Development

The Braze Feedback Loop (BFL) is a large, multiprogram project with the goal of supporting concurrmt engineering during product development. This system is primarily intended for use during detailed product and process design, where the initial design of both the product and process have been completed and the lust hardware is being made with the wocess as designed. As an informational feedback loop, BFL provides hardware inspection data and furnace cycle data to designers and sog8ested product/process design improvements to product development decision makem This system includes a furnace predictive maintenance system, a furnace controller, a post-braze quality inspection system, an el~troni¢ h-aveler system, a woduct design advisor, a process design advisor, and a number of fmite-elemant simulation models of the fuma~ and parts. This paper provides an overview of BFL, along with its application in a weapons development environment.