Reliability program plan for R & D organizations

The reliability program plan outlined herein represents what is considered a minimum program for an R & D laboratory or industrial company. If a requirement exists for an R & D laboratory to set up a reliability program, it should determine the desirability of having an overall reliability program which encompasses all projects or applying this reliability program to individual projects as required by military requirements. Projects are defined here as tasks or programs contracted or subcontracted to the R & D laboratory and where the R & D laboratory must provide certain defined outputs, e.g., a computer system. The latter approach warrants serious consideration since it will allow the laboratory´s operation to be free of the unnecessary constraints a reliability program imposes.