FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Basic concepts
4.1 General
4.2 Origins of weakness and failures
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Systematic weaknesses
4.2.3 Residual weaknesses
4.3 Basic concepts for reliability growth in product
development process; integrated reliability
engineering concept
4.4 Basic concepts for reliability growth in the test
phase
4.5 Planning of the reliability growth and estimation
of achieved reliability during the design phase
4.5.1 General
4.5.2 Reliability growth in the product
development/design phase
4.5.3 Reliability growth with the test programmes
5 Management aspects
5.1 General
5.2 Procedures including processes in the design phase
5.3 Liaison
5.4 Manpower and costs for design phase
5.5 Cost benefit
6 Planning and execution of reliability growth programmes
6.1 Integrated reliability growth concepts and overview
6.2 Reliability growth activities in the design phase
6.2.1 Activities in concept and product requirement
phase
6.2.2 Product definition and preliminary design
6.2.3 Project design phase
6.2.4 Tooling, first production runs (preproduction),
production phase
6.2.5 Product fielded phase
6.3 Reliability growth activities in the validation
test phase
6.4 Considerations for reliability growth testing
6.4.1 General
6.4.2 Test planning
6.4.3 Special considerations for non-repaired or
one-shot (expendable) items and components
6.4.4 Classification of failures
6.4.5 Classes of non-relevant failures
6.4.6 Classes of relevant failures
6.4.7 Categories of relevant failures that occur
in test
6.4.8 Process of reliability improvement in
reliability growth tests
6.4.9 Mathematical modelling of test reliability
growth
6.4.10 Nature and objectives of modelling
6.4.11 Concepts of reliability measures in reliability
growth testing as used in modelling
6.4.12 Reporting on reliability growth testing and
documentation
7 Reliability growth in the field
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