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A document providing technical details on weather, location, and use factors including statistical summaries and distributions, along with approaches for evaluating an item for those conditions where an item may operate. The manual comprises a documented set of environmental stresses common for an organization’s products and markets and details suitable testing approaches.

A document detailing a range of design activities and tools that support the effort to create a reliable item. The handbook may include basic procedures and approaches, resources for additional information, best practices, and lessons-learned information. Specific sets of approaches, tools, and tasks are given to guide the organization’s DFR work.

All plans and actions taken to identify hazards; assess and mitigate associated risks; and track, control, accept, and document risks encountered in the design, development, test, acquisition, use, and disposal of systems, subsystems, equipment, and infrastructure.

The cost of ensuring an organization conforms to customers’ quality requirements. Includes the costs of incoming inspection and test, in-process inspection and test, final inspection and test, document review, balancing (review of internal accounts to assure consistency), product quality audits, maintenance and calibration of test equipment, inspection and test materials and services, inspection and testing of materials and parts.

A process document describing the system elements applied to control variation of process, product or service characteristics and to minimize deviations from target values.