Computer Reliability Optimization System

The short electronic system development time, the acute competitiveness, the emphasis on lower costs, and the insistence upon high reliability has fostered practical computerization of the manager's and designer's reliability function. This computerization attempts to achieve feasible system optimization. The Computerized Reliability Optimization System (CROS) was developed by Hoffman Electronics Corporation's Computer-Aided-Design, Analysis, and Reliability Group to provide an optimum solution to the present system reliability methods. CROS is a comprehensive set of computer programs and a complementary design and management method for handling the total reliability function from proposal effort through the production and field-data analysis. The organization, application, feasibility, and results of CROS are discussed.