Guidelines & References
ARM Engineering Process
- Engineer's Responsibility and Tracking
- Engineering Change Request & Engineering Change Order: ECR/ECO Guidelines - Process for requesting and implementing a significant engineering change
- Engineering Work Request & Engineering Work Order: EWR/EWO Guidelines - Process for tracking a minor engineering change that falls within currently approved scope.
- Baseline Change Request: BCR Guidelines
Guidelines for Specific Applications
- Project Guide Plans
Project Guide Plans are provided to help Engineers manage the process steps required to bring a product, or system, into operation within the ARM Climate Research Facility.
- DOD Standards Guide
The DOD Standards Guide provides guidelines for the construction of field names, specifying mandatory field and global attributes for ARM infrastructure to adhere by in an effort to standardize the names and attributes within the ARM data.
- VAP Development Guide - Guidelines for developing value-added products, advanced data products derived from one or more data inputs.
- VAP DQ Reporting Guide
Forms to Assess Engineering Readiness
Readiness Review forms provide checklists to ensure that a new capability will mesh well into the existing ARM infrastructure.
- Collection Release
- Communications and Networking Engineering Deployment
- Data System Engineering Deployment
- General Site Engineering Deployment
- Instrument Readiness Review Request
- Ingest/Value Added Product (VAP) Release
Reference
- Color Codes for Resistors & Capacitors
- Data System Database (DSDB)
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Engineering Process Flowchart
The ECO history chart provides graphical records of ECOs and their priority, status, and additional information about Value Added Products (VAPs) in the production environment.
- Hyper Physics
- Nomenclature & Definitions
- Resistor Codes
- Simple Relationships of Voltage, Current, and Resistance
- SI base & SI derived Units
