MIL-HDBK-2155 Base Document:1995

1 SCOPE
      1.1 Purpose
      1.2 Application
             1.2.1 Relationship to other requirements
             1.2.2 Integration with other activities
2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
      2.1 Issues of documents
3 DEFINITIONS
      3.1 Terms
      3.2 Acquiring activity
      3.3 Closed loop failure reporting system
      3.4 Contractor
      3.5 Corrective action effectively
      3.6 Failure
      3.7 Failure analysis
      3.8 Failure cause
      3.9 Failure Review Board
      3.10 Failure symptom
      3.11 Fault
      3.12 Laboratory analysis
4 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
      4.1 Contractor responsibility
      4.2 FRACAS planning
      4.3 Failure Review Board
      4.4 Failure documentation
5 DETAILED REQUIREMENTS
      5.1 Failure reporting
      5.2 Failure analysis
      5.3 Failure verification
      5.4 Corrective action
      5.5 Failure report close-out
      5.6 Identification and control of failed items
APPENDIX A - APPLICATION AND TAILORING GUIDE
10 GENERAL
      10.1 Scope
      10.2 Tailoring requirements
      10.3 Duplication of effort
      10.4 Relationship of FRACAS to FMECA
20 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
30 DEFINITIONS
40 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
      40.1 Importance of FRACAS
      40.2 Data items
50 DETAILED REQUIREMENTS
      50.1 FRACAS planning and documentation
             50.1.1 Primary Objective
             50.1.2 Request of FRACAS plan
             50.1.3 Requirement addition
             50.1.4 Failure data
      50.2 FRACAS data collection
             50.2.1 Effectiveness of FRACAS
             50.2.2 Failures
             50.2.3 Failure analysis
             50.2.4 Results of failure analysis
60 DATA ITEM DESCRIPTIONS (DID)
      60.1 Data

Gives the criteria and uniform requirements for failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS) to implement the FRACAS requirement of MIL-STD-785.

This standard establishes uniform requirements and criteria for a Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) to implement the FRACAS requirement of MIL-STD-785. FRACAS is intended to provide management visibility and control for reliability and maintainability improvement of hardware and associated software by timely and disciplined utilization of failure and maintenance data to generate and implement effective corrective actions to prevent failure recurrence and to simplify or reduce the maintenance tasks.