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The Reliability Analysis Center (RAC) has been the DoD's recognized center of excellence in the engineering disciplines of reliability, maintainability, supportability and quality (RMSQ) for over 30 years. RAC provides unbiased technical support in these engineering disciplines during the acquisition, development and operational phases of military and commercial resulting in lower life cycle costs and increased readiness. RAC's broad-based resources include the largest failure databases and library dedicated to RMSQ. RAC currently has over 60 technical reports and software tools to assist the manager, practitioner, and designer effectively address sustainment of complex systems. Over 15,000 people have benefited from the broad range of training programs designed to transition lessons learned and practical experience to the decision-maker. RAC's staff of over 50 engineers and scientists, coupled with our expert network, is dedicated to providing turnkey technical solutions tailored to meet your needs, from your simplest technical questions to complex RMSQ problems.
RAC's scope is the reliability, maintainability, quality and supportability of microcircuits, semiconductors, electromechanical and mechanical parts, and equipment/systems employing these parts.
The mission of the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC) is to provide technical expertise and information in the engineering disciplines of reliability, maintainability, supportability and quality and to facilitate their cost-effective implementation throughout all phases of the product or system life cycle.
The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM) is a powerful tool for evaluating and for improving software. Its five levels, 18 key process areas, and over 300 practices provide a complex structure that needs to be closely examined to determine the underlying capability of an organization. Based upon this understanding of an organization's strengths and weaknesses, the software improvement teams, called Software Engineering Process Groups, can identify and prioritize those critical activities required for improvement. This Handbook offers a step-by-step road map to this software improvement process.
Today's products and systems are becoming more and more software intensive. Often, the reliability of the software has been ignored in the development process, with analyses and other normal reliability tasks assuming that the software has a reliability of one (perfectly reliable). This has often been the case because of the hardware-oriented background of practicing reliability personnel and their lack of understanding of software development. This publication acquaints reliability practitioners with the fundamentals of software development as they apply to system reliability, enabling consideration of "total system" reliability rather than just addressing hardware. Different software development processes are discussed along with models and differences between hardware and software reliability definitions and concepts.
This training course is tailored for reliability engineers, systems engineers, quality assurance engineers, and software engineers and testers. Featuring hands-on software reliability measurement, analyses and design, it is intended for those individuals responsible for measuring, analyzing, designing, automating, implementing or ensuring software reliability for either commercial or government programs. Practical approaches are stressed with many examples included. It is not necessary to have a software background or a reliability background to attend the course, however, either or both are helpful.
RAC's PRISM© is an integrated software tool for assessing system reliability. PRISM© incorporates:
The next generation of component reliability models derived from RAC's extensive failure rate database.
Comprehensive searchable database of observed field failure rates.
System development process grading methodology to assess the impact of both good and bad processes on inherent system reliability.
Graphical system breakdown structure that provides intuitive insight into the reliability assessment process.
Diverse set of tabular and graphical output reports to pinpoint visibility of high failure rate drivers.
Software reliability estimation model to estimate failure contribution from software architecture.
Reliability Analysis Center (RAC)
201 Mill Street
Rome, NY 13440-6916
Phone: (315) 337-0900, (888) RAC-USER
Fax: (315) 337-9932
E-mail: [email protected]
http://iac.dtic.mil/rac
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