Standardization of a visual inspection for radar systems

Thales Nederland offers a health check service to its clients. With this service, Thales executes an inspection where the state of its products at the client emerges. Thales personnel was seeking for opportunities to make the inspection more unambiguous. The service exists of a functional and visual inspection. This research focuses on the visual part of the inspection. After a short plenary analysis, it became clear that there were improvement opportunities in the corresponding inspection checklist. The following research question arose: “How can the current visual inspection checklist be improved to increase the quality of the Thales System Health Check Service?”