IS 8161 : Part 1 : 1999 Guide for Equipment Reliability Testing - Part 1 : Principles and Procedures

1 Scope

This standard (Part 1) deals with general principles andprocedures for equipment reliability testing.

2 References

IS 1885 : Part 39 :1999 Electrotechnical vocabulary:Part 39 Dependability of electronic andelectrical items

IS 2106 : Parts 1 to 18 Environmental testsfor electronic andelectrical equipment

IS7354Guide on reliability of electronic andelectrical items:

Part 1 :1975Preliminary reliability considerations

Part 2 :1984Reliability and maintainability management

Part 4 :1974Collection of reliability availability andmaintanibility data from field performance

IS 8161 :1986Guide for equipment reliability testing:

Part 2 :1986Guidance for the design of test cycles forequipment reliability testing

Part 3 :1986Preferred test conditions for equipmentreliability testing

Part 4 :1985Procedures for determining point estimates andconfidence limits from equipment reliabilitydetermination tests

Part 5 :1981Compliance test plans for success ratio

Part 6 : Sec 1 : 1983 Tests for thevalidity of a constant failurerate assumption,Section 1 Chi-square test

Part 6 : Sec 2 :1987 Tests for the validity of a constantfailurerate assumption,Section 2 Kolmogorov-smirnov test

Part 7 :1977Compliance test plans for failure rate and meantime between failures assuming constant failurerate

Part 11 :1983Flow chart describing preparations for andexecution of reliability tests