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Description
The Fuze Development Center was established in 2003 to provide a
place to take conceptual designs from the drawing board to field in
a relatively short period of time. The philosophy is to design for
manufacturability and employ current, and cutting edge, industrial
processes to build working prototypes in "one pass". By partnering
with industry during the developmental phase, and working up in
B1530 to mature the design and develop the manufacturing
documentation and processes, the hand off to full production should
be seamless.
The Fuze Development Center is equipped with Industrial grade
facilities so that the processes can be worked out prior to
production hand off during development. There is a full SMT line,
highly capable machine shop for fixturing and low quantity
component runs, as well as explosives handling capability. There
are also assembly benches to simulate assembly operations as one
would see in a production facility. The set ups are flexible
depending on the item being assembled. This facility will allow for
documented processes that provide consistency, and "true to life"
prototypes that give accurate and reproducible test results. "Do it
right the first time".