Title :
R&M 2000 Environmental Stress Screening
Author :
Littlefield, John W.
Author_Institution :
Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Department; Litton Guidance and Control Systems Division; 5500 Canoga Avenue; Woodland Hills, California 91365 USA.
Abstract :
This paper is concerned with the impact on the US defense industry of the US Air Force R&M 2000 plan and other efforts for a dramatic improvement in the reliability and life-cycle cost of military systems. The paper generally discusses the aims and techniques of environmental stress screening (ESS) with quantitative examples from experience gained at the Litton Guidance and Control Systems Division.
Keywords :
Contracts; Control systems; Costs; Electronic switching systems; Life testing; Mathematical model; Stress control; System testing; Temperature; Thermal stresses; Defect precipitation; Quality requirement; Stress screening;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1987.5222393
