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    QUALITY VOCABULARY - PART 3: AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY AND MAINTAINABILITY TERMS - SECTION 3.2: GLOSSARY OF INTERNATIONAL TERMS

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  01-01-1991

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Committees responsible
    National foreword
    List of symbols and abbreviations
    Part 1: Dependability: common terms. Sections 01 to 18
    191-01 Fundamental concepts
    191-02 Item related performance
    191-03 Defects (under consideration)
    191-04 Failures
    191-05 Faults, errors and mistakes
    191-06 Item related states
    191-07 Maintenance
    191-08 Maintenance related times
    191-09 Item state related times
    191-10 Reliability performance measure related times
    191-11 Availability performance measures
    191-12 Reliability performance measures
    191-13 Maintainability and maintenance support
            performance measures
    191-14 Test concepts
    191-15 Design concepts
    191-16 Analysis concepts
    191-17 Improvement processes
    191-18 Measure modifiers
    Part 2: Quality of service in telecommunications.
            Sections 19 and 20
    191-19 Service related performance
    191-20 Time concepts related to interruptions
    Index
    National annex NA IEC amendment 1: 1999

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    Gives international agreed definitions for terms relating to reliability, availability, maintainability and maintenance support including failures and faults, performance measures, and processes such as analysis, testing, improvement and design. Also gives, for telecommunications, a vocabulary of quality of service.

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    Committee DS/1
    Development Note Also numbered as IEC 60050-191 Together with BS 4778-2(1991), BS 4778-3.1(1991) and BS 4778-1(1987), it supersedes BS 4778-2(1979) Supersedes 90/97332 DC (01/2003)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Current
    Supersedes

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