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DEFINITION
The PRR examines a program to determine if the design is ready for production and if the producer has accomplished adequate production planning.
GENERAL INFORMATION/NARRATIVE
The review examines risk; it determines if production or production preparations incur unacceptable risks that might breach thresholds of schedule, performance, cost, or other established criteria. The review evaluates the full, production-configured system to determine if it correctly and completely implements all system requirements.
At this review, the Integrated Product Team should review the readiness of the manufacturing processes, the Quality Management System, and the production planning (i.e., facilities, tooling and test equipment capacity, personnel development and certification, process documentation, inventory management, supplier management, etc.). A successful review is predicated on the Integrated Product Team's determination that the system requirements are fully met in the final production configuration, and that production capability forms a satisfactory basis for proceeding into Low-Rate Initial Production and Full-Rate Production.
The program manager should convene a PRR of the prime contractor and major subcontractors, as applicable. The PRR(s) should be conducted in an iterative fashion, concurrently with other technical reviews, such as the System Functional Review, the Preliminary Design Review, and the Critical Design Review, during the System Development and Demonstration phase. Periodic production readiness assessments should be conducted during the System Demonstration work effort to identify and mitigate risks as the design progresses. The "final" PRR should occur at the completion of the System Development and Demonstration phase and the start of the Production and Deployment Phase. The final PRR should assess the manufacturing and quality risk as the program proceeds into Low-Rate Initial Production and Full-Rate Production.The program manager should tailor the PRR to the technical scope and risk associated with the system. The program manager should address the PRR in the Systems Engineering Plan.Typical PRR success criteria include affirmative answers to the following exit questions:
(1) Has the system product baseline been established and documented to enable hardware fabrication and software coding to proceed with proper configuration management?
(2) Are adequate processes and metrics in place for the program to succeed?
(3) Are the risks known and manageable?
(4) Is the program schedule executable (technical/cost risks)?(
5) Is the program properly staffed?
(6) Is the detailed design producible within the production budget?
A follow-on, tailored, PRR may be appropriate in the Production and Deployment phase for the prime contractor and major subcontractors if:
(1) Changes from the System Development and Demonstration phase and during the production stage of the design, in either materials or manufacturing processes, occur;
(2) Production start-up or re-start occurs after a significant shutdown period;
(3) Production start-up with a new contractor; or
(4) Relocation of a manufacturing site
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