Fides (reliability)

Fides (reliability)

Fides "(latin: "trust")" is a guide allowing estimated reliability calculation for electronic components and systems. The reliability prediction is generally expressed in FIT (number of failures for 109 hours) or MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure or "Medium Time Between two Failures"). This guide provides reliability data for RAMS ("Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety") studies.

Purpose

Fides is the result of a DGA (French armament industry supervision agency) study realized by a European consortium formed with 8 industrialists from the field of aeronautics and Defence:

*AIRBUS France
*Eurocopter
*Nexter Electronics
*MBDA Missiles Systems
*Thales Services
*Thales Airborne Systems
*Thales Avionics
*Thales Underwater Systems

The first aim of the Fides project was to develop a new reliability assessment method for electronic components which takes into consideration COTS ("commercial off-the-shelf") and specific parts and the new technologies. The global aim is to find a replacement of the worldwide reference MIL-HDBK-217F [cite web |url = http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/basic_profile.cfm?ident_number=53939 |title = MIL-HDBK-217F. Military Handbook – Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment. Department of Defense, 1991 |accessdate = 2007-11-17 |date = |format = |pages = |publisher = |language = English |quote = ] , which is now obsolete and not maintained for more than ten years. Moreover, the MIL HDBK 217F is very pessimistic for COTS components which are more and more used in military and aerospace systems.

The second aim was a reliability engineering guide in order to provide engineering process and tools to improve reliability in the development of new electronic systems.

Method content

The Fides guide is made of two distinct parts. The first is a reliability prediction calculation method concerning the main electronic component families and complete subassemblies like hard disks or LCD displays. The second part is process control and “audit” guide which is a tool to assess the reliability quality and technical know-how in the operating time of the studied product, the exploitation specification and the maintenance.

Availability, normalization

The Fides guide is freely available on the Fides reliability website. The French standardisation organisation UTE ("Union Technique de l'Electricité") had accepted the Fides publication, with the reference UTE C 80 811 (available in both French and English). An international normative reference extension (International Electrotechnical Commission) is planned in a future step.

Future

Fides has met great interest and success since the end of the study in 2004. The method has been quickly declared as a standard that can be applied to the French military programs. For two years, the French military experts of DGA have already used FIDES method in different major programs for Defence, in missiles or tactical telecommunications fields for example.

American companies like Boeing [cite web |url = http://www.aero.org/conferences/mrqw/2004-papers/Bechtold.pdf |title = COTS Electronics Reliability - An Assessment of FIDES |accessdate = 2007-11-19 |date = 2005-01-03 |format = PDF |pages = |publisher = Boeing |language = English |quote = ] , Japanese organism like JAXA ("Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency") as well as French companies or organisms like EDF (Electricité de France, French electricity provider) or CNES ("Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales", French spatial agency) showed their interest in FIDES methodology.

Evolutions of the Fides guide (such as the improvement of existing models and enlargement of covered component family’s spectrum) are undergoing and have to reach to a new version of the Fides guide at the end of year 2008.

ee also

Reliability

Reliability theory

MTBF

Failure rate

References

ources

*cite web |url = https://escies.org/GetFile?rsrcid=5557 |title = Space product assurance |accessdate = 2007-11-20 |date = |format = |pages = |publisher = |language = English |quote = [http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:jhsnfWj25gwJ:https://escies.org/GetFile%3Frsrcid%3D5557+Electricit%C3%A9+de+France+fides+reliability&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=au View as HTML]
*cite web |url = http://www.bqr.com/content/view/222/490/lang,en/ |title = BQR reliability engineering - FIDES |accessdate = 2007-11-20 |date = |format = |pages = |publisher = |language = English |quote =
*cite web |url = http://quanterion.com/RIAC/Publications/STARTSheets/PDFFiles/pred.pdf |title = Electronic reliability prediction |accessdate = 2007-11-20 |date = |format = PDF |pages = |publisher = |language = English |quote =
*cite web |url = http://130.15.85.212/proceedings/WorldCongress07/articles/sessions/papers/A922.pdf |title = Reliability assessment for components of complex mechanisms and machines |accessdate = 2007-11-20 |date = |format = PDF |pages = |publisher = |language = English |quote =
*cite web |url = http://www.gamtech.fr/Fiche_FIABILITY_GB.pdf |title = NORISKO tool for reliability calculation|accessdate = 2007-11-26|date = |format = |pages = |publisher = |language = English |quote = (Software information sheet)
*cite web |url = http://www.eurelnet.org/gratuit/short%20programme.pdf |title = CNES Eurelnet|accessdate = 2007-11-26|date = |format = PDF |pages = |publisher = |language = English |quote =

Further reading

*cite web |url = http://assist.daps.dla.mil/docimages/A/0000/0005/3939/000000041348_000000020838_BHMOJFQSZR.PDF |title = MIL-HDBK-217F - Revision F Change Notice 2 |accessdate = 2007-11-17 |date = 1995-02-28 |format = PDF |pages = |publisher = Department of Defense |language = English |quote = File size : 5791.3 KB

External links

* [http://www.fides-reliability.org Fides guide website] (Requires free registration to obtain the Fides guide in both English and French)


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