Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com AMCP 706.106 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1- GENERAL Reliability measurement techniques provide of the appropriate AMC commodity com- a common discipline that can be used to mands, project managers, and installations or make system reliability projections through- activities which report directly to Head- out the life cycle of a system. The data on quarters AMC.
component and equipment failures obtained during the reliability measurement program The US Army Test and Evaluation Corn- can be used to compute component failure mand (USATECOM) is responsible ior review- distributions and equipment reliability char- ing test documentation produced by other acteristics. Reliability measurement tech- Army organizations. USATECOM c Ait its niques are used during the research and own discretion, conduct independent tests development phase to measure the reliability and evaluations on any Army developed syr. of components and equipments and to eval- tern (Ref. 5).
The reliability measurement uate the relationships between applied stresses techniques described in this volume are con- and environments and reliability. Later in a sistent with Army Regulations and can be system life cycle, reliability measurement and applied directly to systems developed under testing procedures can be used to demonstrate Army auspicesL that contractually required reliability levels _ have been met. A reliability measurement system consists of two major functional divisions: (I) the Uniform criteria r L.tablishing a reliabil- test program, and (2) the data system. ity measurement pro am are defined in MIL-STD-785 (Ref.
I These standards must The test program provides a comprehensive be incorporated into D partment of Defense test effort that ensures that reliability goals II procurements of all systems that undergo are met, A test schedule that designates when contract definition. If a system does not re- test procedures, test samples, and necessary quire a contract definition effort, they can be equipment and facilities will be required must incorporated in the request for proposal be developed. Procedures for gathering the (RFP).
data, which will be generated throughout all phases of the test program, must be docu- The Army has developed a number of reg- mented in sufficient detail for complete iden- ulations, complementing MIL-STD-785, which tification and integration into the data process- establish reliability as a major parameter ing system. which must be measured during the develop- ment of a new weapon system (Refs. 2, 3, The integrated data system establishes pro- and 4). All Army materiel ought to be phys- cedures for accumulating, coding, and handling ically tested to determine whether the design data.
Standard data accumulation require- requirements, including reliability, have been ments (and compatible data sheets) provide met. Testing is performed under the direction for collecting and recordbig data such as ':A