A Primer for International Reliability and Maintainability Standards.

Brief summaries of United States and other world-wide commercial and government reliability, ninintainability, availability, and dependability RMAD standards are included. Defense Acquisition Reform will result in an increased reliance on other than US military standardization documents. This Primer is useful to reliability and maintainability RM practitioners to help determine what standardization documents other than US military are available. Standardization documents were reviewed and from many organizations including the American National Standards Institute ANSI, British Ministry of Defense MOD, British Standards Institute BSI , Canadian Standards Association CSA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE, Institute of Environmental Sciences IES, Electronic Industries Association EIA, Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits IPC, International Electrotechnical Commission IEC, International Organization for Standardization ISO, National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, North Aflantic Treaty Organization NATO, and the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE. Eighty-eight summaries were written for those RMAD documents that were found to be system or subsystem oriented, available in English, and not industry or technology specific. The document descriptions include ordering and pricing information. Appendix C contains a listing of hundreds of other RMAD standards. Appendix D is a listing of RMAD standards specific to the telecommunications industry.