MIL-STD-785 Revision B:1980

Paragraph
1 Scope
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Applicability
1.3 Method of reference
2 Referenced documents
3 Terms, definitions, and acronyms
4 General requirements
4.1 Reliability program
4.2 Program requirements
4.2.1 Reliability engineering
4.2.2 Reliability accounting
4.3 Reliability program interfaces
4.4 Quantitative requirements
4.4.1 Categories of quantitative requirements
4.4.2 System reliability parameters
4.4.3 Statistical criteria
5 Task descriptions
Task section 100. Program surveillance and control
Task
101 Reliability program plan
102 Monitor/control of subcontractors and
          suppliers
103 Program reviews
104 Failure reporting, analysis, and correction
          action system (FRACAS)
105 Failure review board (FRB)
Task section 200. Design and evaluation
Task
201 Reliability modeling
202 Reliability allocations
203 Reliability predictions
204 Failure modes, effects, and criticality
          analysis (FMECA)
205 Sneak circuit analysis (SCA)
206 Electronic parts/circuits tolerance analysis
207 Parts program
208 Reliability critical items
209 Effects of functional testing, storage,
          handling, packaging, transportation, and
          maintenance
Task section 300. Development and production testing
Task
301 Environmental stress screening (ESS)
302 Reliability development/growth test (RDGT)
          program
303 Reliability qualification test (RQT) program
304 Production reliability acceptance test (PRAT)
          program
Appendix A. Application guidance for implementation of
             reliability program requirements
Paragraph
10 General
10.1 Scope
10.2 Purpose
10.3 User
20 Reference documents
30 Definitions
40 Task selection
40.1 Selection criteria
40.2 Application matrix for program phases
40.3 Task prioritization
50 Rationale and guidance for task sections
50.1 Task section 100 - program surveillance and
          control
50.1.1 Structuring the program requirements
50.1.1.1 Identifying and quantifying reliability needs
50.1.1.2 Selecting tasks to fit the needs
50.1.1.3 Reliability program plan (task 101)
50.1.1.4 Monitor/control of subcontractors and
          suppliers (task 102)
50.1.2 Program management
50.1.2.1 Continual program assessment
50.1.2.2 Program reviews (task 103)
50.1.2.3 Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective
          action systems (FRACAS) (task 104)
50.1.2.4 Failure review board (FRB) (task 105)
50.1.2.5 Government plant representatives
50.1.3 Conducting the program
50.1.3.1 Essential considerations
50.1.3.2 Preparing for follow-on phases
50.2 Task section 200 - design and evaluation
50.2.1 General considerations
50.2.1.1 Criteria and analyses are resource allocation
          tools
50.2.1.2 Analyses as work direction tools
50.2.1.3 Analysis applicability
50.2.2 Models, allocations, and predictions
50.2.2.1 Reliability model (task 201)
50.2.2.2 Tops down allocation (task 202)
50.2.2.3 Reliability predictions (task 203)
50.2.3 Configuration analysis
50.2.3.1 Failure modes, effects, and criticality
          analysis (FMECA) (task 204)
50.2.3.2 Sneak circuit analysis (SCA) (task 205)
50.2.3.3 Electronic parts/circuits tolerance analysis
          (task 206)
50.2.4 Design criteria
50.2.4.1 Failure tolerant design criteria improve
          mission reliability
50.2.4.2 Parts selection/application criteria (task
          207)
50.2.4.3 Reliability critical items (task 208)
50.2.4.4 Life criteria (task 209)
50.3 Task section 300 - development and production
          testing
50.3.1 General considerations
50.3.1.1 Reliability testing
50.3.1.2 Integrated testing
50.3.1.3 Test realism
50.3.1.4 Reliability estimates and projections
50.3.1.5 Relevant failures and chargeable failures
50.3.1.6 Statistical test plans
50.3.1.7 Independent testing
50.3.1.8 Testing compliance
50.3.1.9 Documentation
50.3.2 Reliability engineering tests
50.3.2.1 Environmental stress screening (ESS) (task
          301)
50.3.2.2 Reliability development/growth testing (RDGT)
          (task 302)
50.3.3 Reliability accounting tests
50.3.3.1 Reliability qualification test (RQT) (task
          303)
50.3.3.2 Production reliability acceptance test (PRAT)
          (task 304)
60 Data item descriptions (DID)
Table
A-1 Application matrix

Covers reliability programs during development, production, and initial deployment of equipment and systems. Coverage includes applicability, referenced documents, reliability program, reliability engineering, reliability accounting, reliability program interfaces, system reliability parameters, and statistical criteria.