Purpose: In the past, many companies had issues such as schedule delays, cost increases, and quality deterioration due to immature manufacturability during the weapons system development process. To overcome these, a manufacturing readiness assessment system for weapon systems was introduced in 2012. This study contains improvement measures for the assessment system and assessment items for the manufacturing readiness level 8 evaluation.Methods: In this study, a risk management-based evaluation system was introduced and a method for preparing a self-evaluation report for development organizations was proposed. In addition, the latest manufacturing readiness assessment items in the United States were benchmarked, and the introduction of assessment items related to cybersecurity and ergonomics was proposed.Results: We applied the existing evaluation method and the method proposed in this study. As a result of application, the method proposed in this study was able to derive real-life risks and suggest solutions through a more systematic process.Conclusion: In this research, a risk-based evaluation system and improvement measures for evaluation items were presented for the manufacturing readiness assessment system. Ultimately, the manufacturing readiness assessment system is also intended to identify and respond to risks that may occur during the mass production process in advance. In addition, assessment items that had hardly changed in the 10 years since the system was introduced were updated.
Ahn et al. (Mon,) studied this question.