RELIABILITY ENGINEER\'S TOOLKIT - AN APPLICATION ORIENTED GUIDE FOR THE PRACTICING RELIABILITY ENGINEER (ROME LABORATORY) (APR-1993)

RELIABILITY ENGINEER\'S TOOLKIT - AN APPLICATION ORIENTED GUIDE FOR THE PRACTICING RELIABILITY ENGINEER (ROME LABORATORY) (APR-1993)., This Toolkit is intended for use by a practicing reliability and maintainability (R&M) engineer. Emphasis is placed on his or her role in the various R&M activities of an electronic systems development program. The Toolkit is not intended to be a complete tutorial or technical treatment of the R&M discipline but rather a compendium of useful R&M reference information to be used in everyday practice. The format of the Toolkit has been designed for easy reference. Five main sections are laid out to follow the normal time sequence of a military development program. Descriptions of the \"how to\" of the R&M engineer\'s activities have been designed to take the form of figures, tables, and step-by-step procedures as opposed to paragraphs of text. Appendices are included to give a greater depth of technical coverage to some of the topics as well as to present additional useful reference information. The Toolkit also includes a \"Quick Reference Application Index\" which can be used to quickly refer the R&M engineer to the portion of a section that answers specific questions. A quick reference \"For More Help Appendices\" index is also included for the more in-depth topics of the appendices. Ordering information for the military documents and reports listed in the Toolkit is located in Appendix 10. The term \"Reliability\" used in the title of this document is used in the broad sense to include the field of maintainability. The content of the report addresses reliability and maintainability (R&M) because they are usually the responsibility of one government individual in a military electronics development program. In this context, testability is considered as a part of maintainability and is, therefore, inherently part of the \"M\" of \"R&M.\" Where testability issues, such as development of quantitative requirements, are appropriate for separation from \"M\" discussion, they are and have been labeled accordingly.