History of the First IEEE Reliability Standard

Abstract

The Reliability Society’s Standards Committee (IEEE RS-SC) is an IEEE group developing and sustaining standards for the reliability engineering profession. The IEEE Reliability Society (RS) develops open consensus-based reliability engineering and related engineering standards using the IEEE Standards Association (SA standards development process). The IEEE RS-SC following the SA standards development process has an active portfolio of six completed standards, recommended practices, and guides (all are called “standards”). These RS-SC standards are: