A Personal View of Some Reliability Activities in the United Kingdom

This is an account of some of the principal United Kingdom activities specifically concerned with the reliability of manufactured products, and with service functions. It is not a comprehensive study and it cannot be taken to represent the total U.K. picture of the subject. It is hoped, however, that a reasonably balanced view is given of the diversity of reliability interests in Britain as seen by someone who has been closely connected with the subject for several years¿particularly in the field of standardisation.