BS 4778-3.1:1991

This standard BS 4778-3.1:1991 Quality vocabulary. Availability, reliability and maintainability terms is classified in these ICS categories:

• 01.040.29 Electrical engineering (Vocabularies)
• 29.020 Electrical engineering in general

This Part of BS 4778 gives guidance on concepts and defines terms used in the disciplines of availability, reliability and maintainability (ARM). Its object is to assist understanding and communication in these fields.

NOTE 1 The acronym ARM is used in this document to avoid making the text cumbersome; its use has no other significance and other acronyms such as RAM or R and M could equally serve the purpose.

NOTE 2 The titles of publications referred to in this standard are listed on the inside back cover.

Complements and extends the internationally agreed definitions contained in Section 3.2 by providing conceptual explanations of many of these terms and by including additional terms.