Standards and Dependability

Dependability covers availability, performance and influencing factors, such as reliability performance, maintainability of performance, and maintenance-support performance (including management of obsolescence). The standards provide systematic methods and tools for the dependability assessment and management of equipment, services, and systems throughout their life cycles.

The standards cover:

• Generic aspects on reliability and maintainability program management
• Testing and analytical techniques
• Software and system dependability
• Life cycle costing
• Technical risk analysis
• Project risk management

This includes:

• Standards related to product issues, from component reliability to guidance for engineering dependability of systems.
• Standards related to process issues, from technological risk analysis to integrated logistics support.
• Standards related to management issues from dependability program management to managing for obsolescence.

In the United States the ANSI-Accredited U.S. TAG to International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)/Technical Committee (TC) 56 develops the U.S. positions on international standardization activities of IEC/TC 56 on dependability, and administers ballots associated with IEC/TC 56. Delegates actively participate in all activities of IEC/TC 56.

Participation in the ANSI-Accredited U.S. TAG to IEC/TC 56 provides an opportunity for representatives of all affected U.S. constituencies (industry, commerce, education, etc.) to influence the development of dependability standards related to reliability performance, maintainability performance, and maintainability support performance. Other topics include:

• Reliability prediction
• Weibull analysis
• Fault tree analysis
• Failure mode and effects analysis
• Formal design review
• Product recall guide
• Statistical design of reliability tests
• Reliability tests including accelerated life,
• Reliability and maintainability management,
• Maintainability standards,
• Maintenance support,
• Planning, logistics, analysis, and determination of spares

 

Application to join:

http://standardsgroup.asq.org/dependability/tc56/56-application.doc

If you’re interested in participating or have additional questions, please e-mail The ASQ Standards Team at standards@asq.org.

More information is available at IEC's TC 56 "Dashboard"

FAQs on Dependability http://standardsgroup.asq.org/dependability/tc56/faq.html

 

Books:

The Quality Calibration Handbook: Developing and Managing a Calibration Program
This book is about how to design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve a quality calibration system, with all the required documentation, traceability, and known uncertainty for each and every item of test equipment owned and used by any company, large or small. It will benefit companies that want to implement a program and also those that already have one in place.

Make Your Destructive, Dynamic, and Attribute Measurement System Work For You

This book provides clear procedures for situations in which the part values change or are destroyed. It also provides procedures that work when the measurements are dynamic and cannot be separated from the process. It extends the simple methods to cases in which the measurement systems have several sources of uncertainty. And it completely overhauls the attribute methodology and enables it for many difficult but practical applications.

Development of FDA-Regulated Medical Products: Prescription Drugs, Biologics and Medical Devices

This revised edition includes: updated facts and figures; expansion of subjects that have grown more critical, such as clinical outcomes, human factors, and marketing objectives; and additional new topics such as the role of product development in hazard analysis, recalls, and product liability. The author also covers the Food and Drug Administrations Modernization Act (FDAMA), along with discussions on Intellectual Property, Pharmacoeconomics, and Technological and Medical Trends.

 

Training:

ASQ’s extensive catalog of training topics covers all areas of quality. From novice to expert, public training to Web-based learning, we have the training you need.

Training: http://www.asq.org/training/topics/index.html

 

Related standards:

IEC 60300-1

IEC 60300-1 Ed. 2.0 (2003): Dependability management — Part 1: Dependability management systems
This part of IEC 60300 provides general guidelines in establishing a dependability management system to meet most organization or project needs. The structure of the referenced dependability standards follows a "tool-box" concept. The recommendations are nonprescriptive to facilitate tailoring and effective implementation of dependability disciplines in management. The top-level dependability management standard IEC 60300-1 is supported by IEC 60300-2 providing references to application guidelines and methods. This "tool-box" concept helps standards users locate specific dependability application guidelines and relevant methods to accomplish their respective project objectives.

IEC 17025

ANSI/ISO/IEC 17025-2005: General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
This book contains all of the requirements that testing and calibration laboratories have to meet if they wish to demonstrate that they operate a management system, are technically competent, and are able to generate technically valid results. Accreditation bodies that recognize the competence of testing and calibration laboratories should use this International Standard as the basis for their accreditation. Clause 4 specifies the requirements for sound management. Clause 5 specifies the requirements for technical competence for the type of tests and/or calibrations the laboratory undertakes.

IEC 61025

IEC 61025 Ed. 2.0 (2006): Fault tree analysis (FTA)

This International Standard describes fault tree analysis (FTA) and provides guidance on its application as follows: definition of basic principles, including describing and explaining the associated mathematical modelling, and the relationships of FTA to other reliability modelling techniques, description of the steps involved in performing the FTA, identification of appropriate assumptions, events and failure modes, and identification and description of commonly used symbols.

IEC 61160

IEC 61160 Ed. 2.0 (2006): Design review

This International Standard makes recommendations for the implementation of design review as a means of verifying that the design input requirements have been met and stimulating the improvement of the product’s design. The intention is for it to be applied during the design and development phase of a product’s life cycle. It provides guidelines for planning and conducting a design review and specific details concerning contributions by specialists in reliability, maintenance, maintenance support and availability.

 

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