Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Werntz, David G..
FAST project-management software tool designed to optimize sequence of assembly of Space Station Freedom. Assesses effects of detailed changes upon system and produces output metrics identifying preferred assembly sequences. Incorporates Space-Shuttle integration, Space-Station hardware, on-orbit operations, and governing programmatic considerations as either precedence relations or numerical data. Written in C language.
The following topics are presented in view graph form: the background of the Resource Allocation Planning Helper (RALPH); RALPH schedule lifecycle; scheduling approach; technology layering; details; and RALPH directions.
The author describes the resource allocation and planning helper (RALPH) scheduling system developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. RALPH addresses the concerns of designing software systems to minimize the need to recode for changes and upgrades; this concern is acute when requirements are uncertain or changing. Determining requirements, understanding the problem, designing for change, and tradeoffs are also discussed.