been accepted in industry internationally as a replacement for MIL-HDBK-217?
PRISM, released in 2000, has gained wide acceptance in the RMQSI user community and is viewed as the replacement for MIL-HDBK-217 and 217-type modeling methodologies. It is often difficult to instill change away from methodologies that have been utilized for decades; however the inadequacies that exist within these predecessor methodologies have helped the community embrace PRISM with much enthusiasm. PRISM deviates from traditional reliability prediction methodologies by allowing a user to factor in test data and address system level design and manufacturing processes to refine a system prediction. These factors known to impact field reliability have been previously ignored. In addition, the newly developed 217Plus component and system assessment models address not only operational aspects but also non-operational and/or dormant aspects of a part or system. These models based on RIAC’s most current reliability data will be updated routinely as new data is collected whereby keeping the
