Adoption Notice

This standard is intended to align best practices of reliability management, design and testing with reliability methods that provide the most value and the least risk in terms of achieving reliable products. The demand for highly-reliable systems/products prompted the development of a new standard that specifies a scientific approach to reliability design, assessment, and verification, coupled with integrated management and systems engineering. This standard defines “what to do” in order to design and build reliability in, then maintain high reliability when the system/product is in the hands of the user.