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P16301- Harris Radio

Brandon Powell, Jeff Jaskier, Jose Salas, Derek Bain, Alice Daniel

Summary of Background

• Harris Corp. provides radio equipment to the commercial and military sector.
• Their current methods for troubleshooting are time consuming and inefficient.
• Automated testing will decrease cycle time, labor, and errors during testing.
• RIT MSD will develop an automated testing fixture that addresses these issues and

additional customer requirements.

Stakeholders

• Inspectors
• Inspection Supervisors
• Test Engineers
• Design Engineers
• Manufacturing Engineers
• Tool Design Engineer
• RIT (Dr. DeBartolo)

Project Description

Project Goals

• Establish a working relationship between Harris Corp. and RIT, in which Harris provides

real-world projects for future RIT MSD students to develop solutions for while demonstrating their technical skills and abilities

Project Objectives

• Identify current test procedures and associated shortcomings
• Decrease cycle time and contributing factors to error
• Qualitatively increase effectiveness of current test procedures

Benchmarking

Thermotron S-4-2800

• Internal dimensions are 4 cubic feet. (20”W x 20”D x 20”H)

Thermotron S-1.2-3200 Benchtop Environment

• Part of stretch goals: This sizing is not a requirement but a nice-to-have.
• Internal dimension is 1.2 cubic feet. (16”W x 11”D x 12”H)

Current Processes

• Currently removing internals in order to automate testing of radio internals
• Test engineer is required to physically reach into the thermotron to interact with the radio (no automation)

Existing Automated Test Fixtures

• Elite Test Fixtures
• Company based in Illinois, makes test fixtures for shock/vibration testing, as well as life cycle testing

Objective Tree

Customer Requirements

Comments and Questions?

• Post on the discussion board with any points or problem areas that you think need to be addressed