Client: Wilcox Associates
Customer: Jet Propulsion Lab
Product: PC-DMIS Enterprise Metrology Software
Publication: Quality Magazine, March 2009

Coming Soon To a Planet Near You: Artist depiction of the MSL (Mars
Space Laboratory) rover shown here without its nuclear power supply.

Interoperability Boosts Lean Inspection

Common metrology software at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory accelerates
the part validation workflow for the Mars Science Laboratory.

The pressure is definitely on at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, where scientists, engineers and technicians are working evenings and holidays to design, manufacture, and test the cruise stage and descent stage instruments and rover for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) scheduled to launch in the fall of 2009.

Gerald Clark, a Senior Quality Engineer and lead person for QA inspection services for the Jet Propulsion Lab, explained that the MSL project is a galactic scale prototyping operation with tens of thousands of parts in various stages of product development. In most cases, the assigned team will only make three or less of any single component for this project.

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