ItaliAn Agency for Ballistics

 

The Logistic Studies of interest for the Agency are those related with transport, storage, handling and human engineering of the items containing explosive. The logistic troublesomes that come from the explosion hazard are several and go from the item's transport compatibility and definition of suitable tools to the definition of safe distance between pyrotechnic laboratoryes and civilian buildings. Logistics has to be carefully considered during all the munition's  life cycle and it has to be particularly appreciated in the designing phase because it could impose technical requirements more severe than those operational ones. Furthermore it is important to verify periodically one's logistics in comparison with current rules's requirements that are always in updating, particularly in these last years when the national laws aim to consider the European directives.

 

By this time in every industrial sector it is not possible to leave aside the data computing or the mathematical modelling of a a problem; in the field of the objects containing explosive it is opportune to introduce the computer as well, where it has not been done yet. This process can be delayed or slowed down if the know-how to be transferred to the software designer, about what he has to do, is not available. This is the case in which the Agency can intervene to define how the software has to work to manage operationally and logistically the items, matching them with their components and relative drawings, technical documents and applicable regulations.

 

In the Logistics branch, the activities carried out by the Agency are the followings: 

¨ definition of the correct procedures to transport a weapon or an explosive item;

¨ indentification of container and their marking to trasport an explosive item safely and in according to laws;

¨ Human Engineering's studies;

¨ definition of the correct procedures to manage depots;

¨ definition of the safe minimun distances between depots, laboratories and civilian buildings;

¨ definition of the procedures to perform material handling of explosive items safely and in according to current rules;

¨ definition and planning of the necessary logistic support to keep up a program for efficiency maintenance;

¨ critic examination of law/rules relevant for transport, handling and storage of weapons and explosive items;

¨ software definition and development for managing the configuration and the technical documentation of items containing explosive.

 

The Italian Agency for Ballistics  is able to support the customer from a technical and organizational point of view.  

Example: “I have to define a suitable transport container/box for an item, or I have to define the container/box marking, or I have to define the transport and storage procedure of an item or, indeed, I  wish to verify if my depot's management is conform to the current rules, or again I have to understand the possible troublesomes that can arise in the man/item system in order to consider them in the design phase, but I do not have time and resources to study the problems”.  

 

The activities provided by the Italian Agency for Ballistics in this branch consist in:

¨ Information gathering

The Agency gathers the available information, the customer's technical requestes and the boundary conditions to be respected.  In relation with the characteristics of the study, the Agency makes cognitive surveys at the Customer's plant in order to perform, just as example, evaluations on depots or tools already available.

¨ Rules/requestes  comparison

The Agency verifies how much the Customer's requestes are in line with the current law, in case proposes some variations to get them conform to the law's requirements. 

¨ Conclusions 

At the end of the study the Agency is able to point out all the actions to be done in such a way that all the procedures for the explosive item transportation, storage and handling are in according with the law and carried out in the best way in relation to human engineering and the operational needs and of course is able to define the software required to do that.  

Logistics (handling, transport, storage...how to)

AGENZIA BALISTICA ITALIANA

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