IEC 61123:2019

Reliability testing - Compliance test plans for success ratio

IEC 61123:2019

Name:IEC 61123:2019   Standard name:Reliability testing - Compliance test plans for success ratio
Standard number:IEC 61123:2019   language:English and French language
Release Date:21-Nov-2019   technical committee:TC 56 - Dependability
Drafting committee:WG 2 - TC 56/WG 2   ICS number:03.120.01 - Quality in general

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Reliability testing – Compliance test plans for success ratio

Essais de fiabilité – Plans d'essai de conformité pour une proportion de succès





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IEC 61123
Edition 2.0 2019-11
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
colour
inside
Reliability testing – Compliance test plans for success ratio

Essais de fiabilité – Plans d'essai de conformité pour une proportion de succès

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ELECTROTECHNICAL
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INTERNATIONALE
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 8
2 Normative references . 8
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms and symbols . 8
3.1 Terms and definitions . 8
3.2 Abbreviated terms and symbols . 9
3.2.1 Abbreviated terms . 9
3.2.2 Symbols . 9
4 General requirements and area of application . 10
4.1 Reliability requirement . 10
4.2 Repair and replacement . 10
4.3 Types of test plans . 10
4.3.1 General . 10
4.3.2 Features of the test plan types. 10
4.4 General test procedure . 11
4.5 General decision criteria . 11
5 Truncated sequential probability ratio test plans (SPRT) . 13
5.1 Characteristics . 13
5.2 Decision criteria . 13
5.3 Operating characteristic curve (OC) . 14
5.4 Expected number of trials to decision (ENT) . 15
6 Fixed trial/failure terminated test plans (FTFT) . 16
6.1 Characteristics . 16
6.2 Decision criteria . 16
7 Design of fixed trial/failure terminated test plans . 17
7.1 Characteristics . 17
7.2 Approach . 17
7.3 Common case . 18
7.4 Other cases . 18
7.5 Example of application . 18
7.6 Procedure to determine D and c or n and c . 18
7.6.1 Figure and table readings . 18
7.6.2 Use of figures and tables . 19
7.7 Decision criteria . 19
Annex A (informative) Additional information on sequential test plans . 20
A.1 Example. 20
A.2 Extension of the test set (through interpolation and extrapolation) . 21
A.2.1 General . 21
A.2.2 Extrapolation for p < 0,001 . 21
A.2.3 Interpolation . 21
Annex B (informative) Design of fixed trial/failure terminated test plans − Examples . 24
B.1 Use of figures and tables . 24
B.2 Case where number of events, n, is not known, but is predictable . 24
Annex C (informative) Design of fixed trial/failure terminated test plans – Mathematical
procedures and formulas . 26

C.1 General . 26
C.2 Symbols . 26
C.3 Computation . 26
C.3.1 Determination of D versus n . 26
C.3.2 Determination of n and c versus p , D, α, β . 27
C.3.3 Test without failures – Determination of n and D versus p , α, β . 27
C.3.4 Determination of OC curves . 28
C.3.5 Determination of inverse OC curves . 28
C.4 Accuracy . 29
C.5 Tables of cumulative normal distribution and its Inverse. 29
Annex D (normative) Truncated sequential test plans . 31
Annex E (informative) Design of fixed trial/failure terminated test plans – Figures and
tables to determine D and c or n and c . 40
Bibliography . 49

Figure 1 – Expected and maximal number of trials for SPRT and FTFT with the same risks . 11
Figure 2 – SPRT diagram. 14
Figure 3 – OC curve. 15
Figure 4 – SPRT – Curve of expected number of trials to decision (ENT) . 15
Figure 5 – Principal layout of Tables E.1 to E.3 . 19
Figure A.1 – Example of a truncated sequential test . 20
Figure E.1 – Discrimination ratio, D, versus number of events, n for p = 0,05 . 40
Figure E.2 – Discrimination ratio, D, versus number of events, n for p = 0,10 . 41
Figure E.3 – Discrimination ratio, D, versus number of events, n for p = 0,15 . 42
Table 1 – Overview – Maximal number of trials and expected number of trials at p for
SPRT and FTFT . 12
Table 2 – Range of the test parameters . 13
Table 3 – OC curve . 14
Table 4 – ENT (n ) versus true failure ratio (p) .
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