Reliability Life Cycle of a Complex Electronic Airborne Equipment

A good reliability program through design and production results in excellent equipment performance in the field. A full life cycle under controlled failure reporting and analysis procedures is covered. An excess of 48 000 flight hours over 27 000 missions with 303 failures reported from five reporting maintenance shops constitutes the field reporting phase. In addition, details and supporting documentation of the overall reliability program during the Design Phase, Demonstration Phase, Production Phase and Field Use Phase are presented.