Title :
Aerospace Reliability Applied to Biomedicine
Author :
Lalli, Vincent R. ; Vargo, Donald J.
Author_Institution :
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44135.
fDate :
5/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIECI.1972.351103
