BS 5760-10.1: BRITISH STANDARD 1993 IEC 605-1: 1978 Reliability of systems, equipment and components - Part 1O: Guide to reliability testing - Section 10.1 General requirements BSi NOCOPYINGWITHOUTBSIPERMISSIONEXCEPT BS 5760-10.1:1993 Committees responsible for this British Standard BSI The preparation of this British Standard was entrusted by the Quality, Management and Statistics Standards Policy Committee (QMS/-) to Technical Committee QMS/23, upon which the following bodies were represented: AEA Technology Association of Consulting Engineers Association of Project Managers British Gas plc British Railways Board City University Civil Aviation Authority Consumers' Association Cranfield Information Technology Institute Cranfield Institute of Technology Design Council EEA (the Association of Electronics, Telecommunications and Business Equipment Industries) Electricity Association Electronic Components Industry Federation Engineering Equipment and Materials Users' Association GAMBICA (BEAMA Ltd.) Institute of Petroleum Institute of Quality Assurance Institution of Electrical Engineers Institution of Plant Engineers Mercury Communications Limited Ministry of Defence National Computing Centre Ltd. Railway Industry Association of Great Britain Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Safety and Reliability Society Society of British Aerospace Companies Limited Societyof Environmental Engineers Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited University of Technology, Loughborough This British Standard, having been prepared under the direction of the Quality, Management and Statistics Standards Policy Committee, Copy: was published under the authority of the Standards Board and comes into effect on 15 February 1993 Licensed Amendments issued since publication CBSI 02-1999 Amd. No. Date Comments The following BSI references relate to the work on this standard: Committee reference QMS/23 Special announcement in BSINewsAugust1992 ISBN0580219720 BS 5760-10.1:1993 Contents Page Committees responsible Inside front cover BSI National foreword ii Scope 1 1 Introduction 1 Object of this standard 2 2 3 Applicability of the methods given 2 Definitions and related documents 2 4 Principles of reliability compliance testing 8 5 6 Principles of reliability determination testing 4 7 Test item sampling and statistical test plans 4 8 Test conditions 9 9 Test item performance and test observations 11 10 General test procedure 12 11 Field testing considerations 14 12 Test reports 15 13 Summary of details to be included in the detailed 17 reliability test specification or the equipment specification Appendix A Flow chart describing preparations for and execution 18 of reliability tests Figure 1 6 Figure 2 6 List of references Inside back cover CBSI 02-1999 1