_{Original Date: 01/23/1995
Revision Date: 01/18/2007}
Summary

Best Practices

Design
• Automated Mesh Generation for Engineering Analysis
• Interactive Collaborative Environments
• Model Based Design and Virtual Prototyping
• Multi-Dimensional User-Oriented Synthetic Environment
• Parent-Child Design Paradigm
• Pentagon-S: Safety Critical Piece Part and Defect Control
• Structural Dynamics and Vibrational Control
• Vector Automatic Network Analyzers Certification Approaches
Test
• Integrated Circuit Failure Analysis Expert System
• Microelectronics Reliability Benchmarking Facility
• Quiescent Power Supply Current Testing
Production
• Agile Manufacturing Facility for Integrated Circuits
• Environment, Safety, & Health Regulation Compliance Support for Suppliers
• Hierarchical Qualification of Electrical Components
• Inspection Techniques for Aging Aircraft Inspection
• Machine and Process Characterization
Management
• Advanced Manufacturing Technology Network
• Evaluation of Low-Noise Seismometers
• Integrated Records System for High Reliability Production
• Just-In-Time Procurement System
• Quick Pay Invoiceless Payment Processing
• Small Business Programs

Information

Design
• Agile Cable Acquisition and Production System
• Computer-Aided Molecular Design - Fullerenes
• Concurrent Engineering in the Recode System & Thermal Batteries
• Control Device Database/Measurement Software
• DOE/DOD Environmental Data Bank
• Electrical System Simulation and Analysis
• Electronic Design Automation Process
• Engineering Analysis Contribution to Agile Manufacturing
• Engineering Simulation for Model Based Design
• Fuzzy/Probabilistic Hybrid Analysis
• High Consequence System Surety
• Integrated Assembly Planning
• Integrated Development Environment and Assistant
• Integrating Rapid Prototyping & Computer Simulation into Investment Casting
• Laser Spot Weld Representation
• Laydown Weapons Parachutes
• Microporous Polyimide Films for Reduced Dielectric Applications
• Nuclear Safety Information Center
• Optical Studies of Diesel Fuel Combustion
• Preferred Design Processes & Practices for Flight Hardware
• Prototype Electronics Facility
• Reliability Analysis and Modeling Program
• Sandia Preferred Processes for Software Development
• Software Process Improvement
• Utility Battery Storage Systems Program
• Virtual Collocation of Product Realization Teams
• Virtual Company
Test
• Evaluation of High Resolution Digitizers
• Software Unit Testing
Production
• A-PRIMED Robotic Work Cell
• An Expert System to Support Green Design and Manufacturing
• Automated Assembly Planning
• Automated Cleaning of Electronic Components
• Cable Tester
• Engraving Complex Layouts Directly from CAD Files
• Low Volume Statistical Process Control
• Low-Residue, No-Clean Soldering Process
• Manufacturing Liaison Supplier Performance System
• Process Characterization Methodology
• Solids Model/CNC Programming
• Two-Phase Supplier Selection
Facilities
• Benchmarking for Waste Minimization Project
• Concurrent Engineering Communications
• Department of Energy Primary Standards Facility
• Facilities Accelerated System Team
• Manufacturing Prototyping Facility
• Nuclear Waste Management Program Administrative Information Management System
• Preventative Maintenance
• Sandia Voice Information System
• Shielded Plasma Cleaning for Package Assembly
• Technical Surveys for Standards Laboratories
Logistics
• Instructional Video
• Non-Destructive Evaluation Capabilities for Process Monitoring
Management
• Application of Quality Function Deployment to Battery Design
• Benefits Services
• Controlling Manufacturing Costs Using Activity-Based Costing
• Electrical Seamless Manufacturing Team
• High Voltage Pulse Generator and Calibration Equipment
• Nuclear Waste Management Center's Tracking System
• President's Quality Award
• Processes Developed for Test and Evaluation
• Qualification of Weapon Processes and Product
• Sandia Volt Map Program
• Small Business Initiative
• Systems Engineering
• Technologies Enabling Agile Manufacturing
• Total Life Concept Health Promotion Program
• Transitioning Existing Weapon Designs into Manufacture

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