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1.Overview
Traditionally,supplier selection is based on cost,logistics, technical capabilities. production volumequality, support locations, and other contractual factors. One of the reasons reliability does not typicallyenter into the supplier selection process is the lack of an industry-accepted method to measure thecapability of an organization to develop and build reliable products. This standard provides standardizedand objective measurement criteria for assessing and quantifying the reliability capability of anorganization.
Organizational reliability capability is the measure of the effectiveness of an organization’s reliabilityprogram, practices, or activities in meeting the customer’s requirements for product reliability.
Organizational reliability capability reflects the ability of an organization to produce products that meet thereliability needs of its customers. Self-assessment of reliability capability facilitates improvement of anorganization’s reliability practices. Assessment of external organizations provides a means to improve thereliability of products obtained from external suppliers. A supplier selection process that takes into accountthe ability of the supplier’s product to meet reliability requirements can lead to improvements in productreliability
Conformance with the provisions of this standard is achieved by demonstrating that the criteria in Table lhave been used in an assessment of organizational reliability capability, and organizational reliabilitycapability levels have been assigned according to Clause 6.l. The word shall”is used in this standard todenote a requirement that must be fulfilled to conform to this standard.
1.1 Scope
This document presents a standard that defines the reliability capability of organizations and identifies thecriteria for assessing the reliability capability of an organization. This standard is intended to be usable byall organizations that design, manufacture or procure electrical/electronics components or productsAlthough the concepts described in this standard could be applied to both hardware and software productsthe focus of the standard is on hardware products.
1.2 Purpose
The purpose for assessing the reliability capability of an organization is to facilitate the improvement ofproduct reliability. This document does not define an audit process. but rather an assessment process that issuitable for providing data and results as input into an audit process. Reliability capability is defined by keypractices and associated etrics. This standard does not seek to create or propose creation of certifyingbodies that assess whether an organization meets the definitions of reliability capability. This standardcould be used for self-assessment by organizations or for supplier/customer relationship developmentbetween members of supply chain.
1.3 Glossary
Many of the words used to describe organizational reliability capability have multiple meanings. Forexample, the word reliability has a specific mathematical meaning, but the word is also used to mean anentire field of engineering study. Clause 3 contains definitions of specialized terms that are used in thisdocument. This includes those whose meanings are not provided in IEEE 100TM, The AuthoritativeDictionary oflEEE Standards Terms (B10l, as well as those which have been defined in IEEE 100 but mayhave more than one definition in that document, or whose usage in this document is based upon a differentdefinition.
14 Contents description
Clause 4 provides background information on organizational reliability capability assessment. Thisbackground information includes basic concepts, definitions, and appropriate uses for reliability capabilityassessment. Clause 5 defines the eight key reliability practices and their inputs, activities, and outputsThese key reliability practices are the following:
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