AS IEC 60300.1-2004

Provides general guidance on establishing a dependability management system to meet most organizational or project needs. This is the first Standard in a series that includes a ‘toolbox’ of non-prescriptive standards on a range of reliability, availability and maintainability application guidelines and methods. It is identical with and has been reproduced from IEC 60300-1:2003.

This part of IEC 60300 describes the concepts and principles of dependability management systems. It identifies the generic processes in dependability for planning, resource allocation,control, and tailoring necessary to meet dependability objectives.This standard deals with the dependability performance issues in the product life-cyclephases concerning planning, design, measurements, analysis and improvement. Depend-abilityincludes availability performance and its influencing factors: reliability performance,maintainability performance, and maintenance support performance.The object of this standard is to facilitate co-operation by all parties concerned (supplier,organization and customer) and foster understanding of the dependability needs and value to achieve the overall dependability objectives.

First published as AS 3900.4-1994.
Revised and redesignated as AS IEC 60300.1-2004.