History of the First IEEE Reliability Standard

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: • IEEE Std 1332, Standard Reliability Program for the Development and Production of Electronic Systems and Equipment • IEEE Std 1413, Standard Framework for Reliability Prediction of Hardware • IEEE Std 1413.1, Guide for Selecting and Using Reliability Predictions Based on IEEE 1413 • IEEE Std 1624, Standard for Organizational Reliability Capability • IEEE Std 1633, Recommended Practice for Software Reliability Prediction • IEEE Std 1856, Prognostics and Health Management