DocumentCode
803791
Title
Aerospace Reliability Applied to Biomedicine
Author
Lalli, Vincent R. ; Vargo, Donald J.
Author_Institution
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44135.
Issue
2
fYear
1972
fDate
5/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
40
Lastpage
49
Abstract
An analysis is presented that indicates that the reliability and quality assurance methodology selected by NASA to minimize failures in aerospace equipment can be applied directly to biomedical devices to improve hospital equipment reliability. The Space Electric Rocket Test project is used as an example of NASA application of reliability and quality assurance (R&QA) methods. By analogy a comparison is made to show how these same methods can be used in the development of transducers, instrumentation, and complex systems for use in medicine.
Keywords
Aerospace industry; Biomedical transducers; Electronic equipment testing; Friction; Hospitals; Instruments; NASA; Quality assurance; Skin; Space technology;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9421
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIECI.1972.351103
Filename
4158937
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