The Design Principles of Low Cost, Useable, Reliable, Maintainable and Safe Systems by Story Musgrave, Astronaut

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Join us for an out of the world Keynote address at RCM-2009.

Story Musgrave will take you on a journey from farm machinery to military aircraft, construction equipment to the Hubble Space Telescope, to illustrate how the design principles of simplicity and beauty can create low cost, useable, reliable, maintainable, and safe machinery. Discover how, after 30 years as the maintenance test pilot on the Northrop T-38 aircraft, Story contributed to the most reliable and maintainable, high performance aircraft in U.S. Air Force history. Attention to these sound principles also led to the existence of the magnificent, robust, and dependable Apollo Saturn vehicles. 
Story will also explore, on the other hand, how poor maintenance designs can lead to increased cost, inefficiency, and unsafe, unreliable equipment. He will share his years of Space Shuttle maintenance experience to demonstrate how the complexity of design can cause massive problems.

Designing for serviceability in the earliest stages of development is key to maintenance success. Story’s first-hand experience working for 17 years on the design of serviceability and maintainability for the Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates this.