1. Industrial Resource Analysis (IRA). A discrete analysis of industrial base capabilities conducted to determine the availability of production resources required to support a major system production program. These resources include capital, materiel, and manpower required to accelerate to and maintain full production rates and respond to surge and mobilization requirements. IRA includes the results of feasibility studies, producibility analyses, and manufacturing technology program assessments.

2 . Producibility. The relative ease of producing an item or system. This is governed by the characteristics and features of a design that enable economical fabrication, assembly, inspection, and testing using available production techniques.

3. Producibility Engineering ahd Planning. The production engineering tasks and production planning measures undertaken t o ensure a timely and economic transition from the development to the production phase of a program.

4 . Production Engineering. The application of design and analysis techniques to produce a specified product including:

a. The functions of planning, specifying, and coordinating the application of required resources.

b. Performing analyses of producibility and production operations, processes, and systems.

c. Applying new manufacturing methods, tooling, and equipment.

d. .Controlling the introduction of engineering changes.

e. Employing cost control techniques.

5. Production Feasibility. The likelihood that a system design concept can be produced using existing production technology while simultaneously meeting quality, production rate, and cost requirements.

6. Production Management. The effective use of resources to produce, on schedule, the required number .of end items that meet specified quality, performance, and cost. Production management includes but is not limited to industrial resource analysis, producibility assessment, producibility engineering and planning, production engineering, industrial preparedness planning, postproduction planning, and productivity enhancement.

7. Production Readiness. The state or condition of preparedness of a system program to proceed into production. A system is ready for production when industrial resource capacity, completeness and producibility of the production design, and the managerial and physical preparations necessary for initiating and sustaining a viable production effort have progressed to the point at which a production commitment can be made without incurring unacceptable risks to the thresholds of schedule, performance, cost, or other established criteria.

8. Production Readiness Review. A formal examination of a program to determine whether the design is ready for production, production engineering problems have been resolved, and the producer has accomplished adequate planning for the production phase.

9. Productivity Enhancement. The use of contract incentives and other techniques to provide the environment, motivation, and management commitment to increase production efficiencies.