ITAA Issues Defense System Reliability Standard - GEIA STD-0009
September 19, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) released Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA) STD-0009 - Reliability Program Standard for System Design, Development and Manufacturing, which is a reliability standard for defense systems and equipment development and production.
Since the 1998 cancellation of MIL-STD-785B, the government has not had a standard for use in contractual documents that describes a scientific approach to reliability design, assessment and verification in conjunction with integrated management and systems engineering, according to ITAA.
ITAA's standard establishes best practices that provide the most value and the least risk in product and system development, claims ITAA.
It will allow defense agencies to prescribe steps for ensuring reliability during the design and production of systems and other equipment and then maintain high reliability when they are in use.
At the heart of the standard is a systematic "design-reliability-in" process, which includes three elements:
- Progressive understanding of system-level operational and environmental loads and the resulting loads and stresses that occur throughout the structure of the system.
- Progressive identification of the resulting failure modes and mechanisms.
- Aggressive mitigation of surfaced failure modes.
ITAA will form a reliability committee under GEIA to work with customers and developers and to develop a companion guide for GEIA STD-0009.
Source: Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).