Overview of the ECSS system

ECSS Executive Secretariat

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Content

1. ECSS objectives and policy 2. History and membership 3. ECSS organization 4. Type of ECSS documents 5. Hierarchy of documents

6. Production Cycle
7. Dissemination of ECSS documents
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1. ECSS objectives and policy

Introduction ECSS stands for European Cooperation for Space Standardization
ECSS is an initiative established to develop a single set of consistent space standards for use by the entire European Space Community. ECSS standards have evolved from the previous 30 years experience in the management and implementation of European Space Projects. ECSS has developed through a partnership between the European Space Agency. National Space Agencies and European Industries
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1. ECSS objectives and policy

The overall objectives of using the ECSS Standards are to:
Competitiveness
Standards have an important economic and social role for enabling our industry to remain competitive on the market and to conquer new markets.

Efficiency
Standards contribute to making the development, manufacturing and supply of products and services more efficient, reliable, safer and cleaner.

Trading facilitation
Standards allow trading between organizations to progress easier and fairer.

Knowledge transfer
Standards aid in transferring knowledge and enhancing engineering capabilities to smaller or developing organizations.

Education

Finally, Standards participate to the education of todays and future engineers when conforming to standards is secured, thus, for instance, avoiding designers "reinventing the wheel".

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1. ECSS objectives and policy

ECSS Characteristics
ECSS Characteristics
is driven by a partnership of industries and space agencies is written in consensus by industry and agency experts defines the requirements rather than the means makes maximum use of existing and commonly used international standards illustrates best practice techniques has flexibility through tailoring replaces ESAs PSS and other standards

The European Space community recognizes ECSS as:

the single developing body for European Space standards, and the source of requirements for its Space activities

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2. History and membership

Milestones (Quick Historical survey)

1993: Industry saw the need to align PA requirements 1993-1994: ECSS TOR signed, and K.O. meeting 1996: First documents
1999: Attempt to apply in Mars Express (not well specified requirements,

set the standards incomplete) 2000: Gibson report 2002: Organisational changes at management level- re-structuration (from Gibson report) 2004: Define implementation method 2005: Necessary set of standards nearly set up 2006: (April) User day showed the necessity to adapt the standards to the user needs 2006: (June) Conclusions of TF1 (for organizational aspects) and TF2 (for the content of the documents) set the basis for the new system: starting of the benchmarking phase 2010: end of benchmarking phase 2010 2012 : Maintenance phase
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2. History and membership

Results and SB deliberations on TF1 & TF2 (June 2006):

New ECSS Organization: - More user oriented - For transitional & maintenance phases - With simplified processes and decisional levels - With increase ECSS members ownership of product ECSS Documents and Content: - 3 Categories of ECSS documents (Standards, Handbook, Technical Memorandum) - Enforcement application of drafting rules - Benchmarking phase to complete and review the set of standards

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2. History and membership

Voting members Membership Observers

European Space Agency

National Space Agencies Italy France

European Industry,
represented by

Germany The Netherlands

Some organization have an observer role on ECSS, e.g. CEN-CENELEC, EUMETSAT, EDA
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Norway United Kingdom Canada

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3. ECSS Organization
ECSS structure
Steering Board Executive Secretariat Technical Authority

Working Working Group Working Group Working Group Group

Network of experts

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3. ECSS Organization
Steering board (SB):
Steering Board Executive Secretariat Technical Authority Mission:
Define the objectives, policy and strategy for the ECSS system and for providing overall leadership of the ECSS bodies. Not involvement in approval of standards.

Composition:
Voting members: One voting representative of each member organization, except Eurospace which has four. Non voting members: Chairman, Secretariat and invited observers

Working Working Group Working Group Working Group Group

Network of experts

Meetings:
At least, twice a year.

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3. ECSS Organization
Technical authority (TA):
Mission: Steering Board Executive Secretariat Technical Authority
Guided and monitored by the SB: - it is the approval authority for all changes to existing ECSS Documents, for the initiation and release of new ECSS Documents. - It is in charge to setup and implement the Workplan with the support of the ES. - Define the objectives, policy and strategy for the ECSS system and for providing overall leadership of the ECSS bodies.

Meetings:
Typically, 5 per year.

Composition: Working Working Group Working Group Working Group Group

Network of experts
Voting members: One voting representative of each member organization, except Eurospace which has four. Voting members vote on behalf of their organizations. Non voting members: Chairman, Secretariat and invited observers

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3. ECSS Organization

Executive secretariat (ES):

Steering Board Mission:
-Programme function: + Support to TA for building the Work-plan + Monitor the implementation of the WP + gather feed-back from users and lessons learned. -Ensure promotion and interfaces with other SDOs -Provide administrative support

Executive Secretariat
Technical Authority

Dedication
Working on a permanent basis.

Working Working Group Working Group Working Group Group

Network of experts

Composition:
ES is provided by ESA

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3. ECSS Organization

Steering Board

Working groups (WG):

Executive Secretariat
Mission:
To carry out the tasks necessary to draft or update an ECSS Document in line with its Terms of Reference, against an agreed planning and schedule. They are built on a case by case, managed by the TA on a limited duration mandate.

Technical Authority

Composition: Working Working Group Working Group Working Group Group

Network of experts
- Convenor, appointed by the TA in consultation with WG members -Core set of members, representing their organizations, and appointed by the TA

Support
It is expected that each organization gives support to his/her representative in the WG, e.g. by technical correspondents

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3 ECSS Organization
The Working Group
Responsibilities and tasks

The Working Group is responsible to draft or update an ECSS Document. The WG is responsible for making the most effective use of the expertise of its members to achieve the best quality Document. In executing its responsibilities the WG shall: a) Agree the NWIP and propose the WG Work-plan (WP); b) Prepare regular progress reports; c) Provide deliverables and intermediate version(s) of the document as in the agreed WG WP; d) Prepare, in consultation with the ES, and submit the draft document to be processed in the TA; e) Review and disposition the comments during Public review and update the document; f) When updating a Document, provide traceability between the new and previous versions; g) Report any identified consequences of the standard on already published Documents; h) Submit the revised document with the report of comments disposition to be processed in the TA; i) Prepare a final report: detailing the results, and lessons learned; j) Prepare a draft article for the ECSS news letter promoting the new or updated Document; k) Nominate, at conclusion of the WG activity (i.e. when the document is published) a Documents Focal Point [name(s)/Organization] who will be in charge and commit to provide support to answer Users queries and analyse feedbacks.

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3. ECSS Organization
Network of experts (NoE):
Steering Board Executive Secretariat Technical Authority Mission:
Pool of experts in the ECSS disciplines supported by the ECSS organization nominating them.

Composition:
- DiFP (Discipline focal points): One per discipline, 21 disciplines in total see next slide). - DoFP (Document focal points): For the ongoing documents, the convenor. For the disbanded WGs, a person proposed by the WG before disbanding. - Ad-hoc experts

Working Working Group Working Group Working Group Group

Network of experts

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3. ECSS Organization
Standardization point of contact in ESA
Discipline ESA Discipline responsible M Thomas.Deak@esa.int Q10/Q20 Roberto.Ciaschi@esa.int Q-30 Luigi.Bianchi@esa.int (Roberto.Ciaschi@esa.int) Q-40 Roberto.Ciaschi@esa.int Q-60 Ralf.de.Marino@esa.int Q-70 Mikko.Nikulainen@esa.int Q-80 Lothar.Winzer@esa.int (Roberto.Ciaschi@esa.int) E-10 Frederic.Teston@esa.int E-20 Henri.Barde@esa.int E-30 Michel.Lambert@esa.int E-40 Jean-Loup.Terraillon@esa.int E-50 Gian.Paolo.Calzolari@esa.int (ESOC) E-60 Alain.Benoit@esa.int E-70 Mario.Merri@esa.int (ESOC) U10/U20 Tomasso.Sgobba@esa.int
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DIVISION HEAD: Roger.Jegou@esa.int STANDARDIZATION ENGINEERS: ECSS Secretary: Enrique.Gonzalez.Conde@esa.int ESA rep. in the ECSS TA: Joel.Asquier@esa.int Standardization officer engineers: Steve.Bury@esa.int Olga.Zhdvanovich@esa.int DOCUMENT CONTROL & ADMIN Klaus.Ehrlich@esa.int Brid.Samoylove@esa.int Nathalie.Reuze.Witasse@esa.int

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4. Type of ECSS documents

S - system

Branches
Define the system of standardization documents, and specifies how to use it in Space projects The project manager is responsible for the achievement of the totality of the project objectives and specifically for quality organization and its timely and cost effective execution Product assurance is responsible for the implementation of the quality assurance elements of the project and other activities like dependability, safety, parts, material and processes, software, and audits Engineering is responsible for the definition of the end product, verification that customers technical requirements are achieved and in conformance with the regulation and company constraints The U branch is providing requirements and principles for a continuous sustainability of the space environment in order to ensure appropriate and safe present and future of space activities.

M - management Q - product
assurance

E - engineering

U - sustainability
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4. Type of ECSS documents

standards handbooks technical memoranda

for direct use in invitation to tender which are documents for direct use in invitation to tender and business and business agreements agreements for implementing space related activities.
Their content is strictly limited to the statement of verifiable customer requirements, supported by the minimum descriptive text necessary to non-normative documents providing guidelines which are non-normative understand their context. documents providing background information, advice or recommendations and/or collection ofrelated datato a specific discipline or technique, technology, process or activity. Two which types are non-normative of handbooks are documents considered providing in ECSS: usefull (1) Guidelines information togood the non-normative documents providing usefuland info practices, space community and (2) Collection on a specific of data. subject. or data not yet mature for a data standard They are prepared to record and present which areor not handbook relevant for a standard or handbook, or not yet mature to be published as standard or handbook

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4. Type of ECSS documents Standards

They express what to do, not how
Therefore, the procedural part is not normally covered. Handbooks are the appropriate documents for it. Supplier Customer
Contractual relationship

They express this in term of regulatory provisions, i.e.

Requirements, recommendations or permissions NOTE: Explanatory text is only included if necessary to support these provisions

Supplier Customer
Contractual relationship

These provisions are focused on a contractual relationship

The contractual model used in ECSS is defined in ECSS-S-00

Supplier
Customer

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4. Type of ECSS documents

Handbooks and Technical memoranda

Handbook
Handbooks are non-normative documents providing background information, orientation, advice or recommendations. A handbook therefore contains advice about how properly to do something important and useful information about a subject. An ECSS handbook is a document related to one specific discipline or to a specific technique, technology, process or activity. It contains the best knowledge and practice on the subject and can contain:
Descriptions of the matters, Associated explanations and/or justifications, Rationale for using one or other method or technique, Examples of applications, Recognised/accepted values/characteristics.

TWO types of handbooks: (1) guidelines and good practices, and (2) Collection of data

Technical Memorandum
A Technical memorandum is a specific document providing useful information to the space community on a specific subject. It is prepared to record and present non-normative data which are not relevant for a standard or for a handbook or not yet mature to be published as handbook or standard.

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4. Type of ECSS documents What ECSS standards are not

Handbooks - because they contain requirements directly applicable to establish project specifications Teaching books or encyclopedia for specific subjects Documents to be used independently/autonomously (except for some detailed (level 3) standards) - for the ECSS standards, they are part of a system where standards are complementary and interconnected Their purpose is not to interfere with the internal organization of the suppliers or their quality system

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5. Hierarchy of ECSS documents

Documentation structure of ECSS

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5. Hierarchy of ECSS documents

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5. Hierarchy of ECSS documents

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5. Hierarchy of ECSS documents

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5. Hierarchy of ECSS documents

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5. Hierarchy of ECSS documents

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7. Dissemination of ECSS documents

The ECSS Website: www.ecss.nl

Home provides Organization provides Standards provides Discussion Forum: HBs and TMs provides ECSS Helpdesk: Facility for information on: information on: information on: Mechanism to exchange access to: providing guidance and The ECSS organization Latest ECSS News ECSS Architecture ECSS Handbooks ideas and information within assistance: The membership of the Current Year Agenda Access to ECSS published ECSS Technical the ECSS community: Frequently Asked Questions
ECSS background different ECSS bodiesstandards Contact details Links to other Standardisation ECSS Forms organisations Events Drafting rules and ECSS procedures How to develop standards Templates News archive Memoranda My Questions (mechanism Addition of new discussion to ask the webmaster topics and receive Participation in existing questions onanswers on a one-to-one going discussions Note: only information basis) relevant to ECSS is allowed

and interfaces for

Submitting questions Logging onto the website Searching the website

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