Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com AMCP 7.190S bank have been processed, the individual 4. For the initiating operation, the EDP output fies are transferred to a single file to facility creates a new data bank file from facilitate printing, all entries and issues a data bank file listing. For updating, the EDP facility merges data 5-2.5 OPERATION OF THE DATA BANK from the new entries with the old data bank file and creates a revision report list- i Operation of the data bank invU1hes ( I) ing all data additions, deletions, and revi. its establishment and maintenance, and (2) glons. The data bank fiW listing or the re- Its use' as a source of parameters for reports.
vision report is checked against the corres- Its successful operation requires close co- ponding data forms by the data coordinator ordination between engineering and data and submitted to the program manager for processing personnel, On large programs, a review. data coordinator and an engineering coor- dinator for data bank operations should be Information is extracted from the data appointed to the program manaller's staff, bank In the following manner: The details of establishing and maintaining the data bank and of extracting data from I. The engineering coordinator initiates it are described in the paragraphs that the request for a-specific report to the data follow (Ref, 7).
coordinator, The operation of the data bank requires 2. The data coordinator forwards a re- that the data be initially entered and then quest form to the EDP facility, Indicating updated later. Coordinated effort between the extraction routines to be used with the engineering and data processing personnel is new data bank file, along with any special required, The details of this operation are: instructions. 1. The request that information initially 3, The printed report then is submitted be entered into the data bank should be to the program manager by the EDP facility made by the program manager, to whom the via the data coordinator.
equipment engineers respond by submitting completed data input forms certified by A feature of the preceding operation is their signatures. that all communication with the EDP facility Is accomplished by the data coordinator. 2. Revisions of data In the data bank are This procedure frees the equipment engineers initiated by the responsible equipment and the program manager from all liaison engineer by requesting the necessary forms with the facility, from the engineering coordinator, and sub- mitting the completed and certified forms Many newer programs will have online to him. timeshared facilities that eUmlniate the need for much of the communication and red 3.
Completed data foams then should be tape described in this paragraph, reviewed technically by the program man- ager's staff, 1.te dta coordinator then re- 5-3 RELIABILITY DATA SYSTEMS views the forms for proper addressing of OPERATING PROCEDURES data, correct format, etc., and fotwards the forms for data entry, The data foms then The development of a reliability data sys- , are returned to the data coordinator for tern requires the creation of procedures, in-.. checking against the revision report. struction, and forms for reporting, handling, i :,;%.b 1X. .,r wd:AH11 lfit-N