New international standards on reliability growth

A review is presented of two international standards on reliability growth developed by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for world trade. The first IEC standard discussed is IEC 1014, Programmes for Reliability Growth, and the second IEC standard discussed is IEC 56 (Central Office) 150 Reliability Growth Models and Estimation Methods. IEC 1014 was issued as an international standard in 1989 and IEC56 (Central Office) 150 is an approved Draft International Standard. These standards cover the management and modeling aspects, respectively, of a reliability growth program. An overview of these documents is given, together with a more detailed discussion of various reliability growth terminology, procedures, and models presented in these international standards