Technical Activities

Welcome to the Reliability Society Technical Activities webpage!

On this page, technical information and links, as well as, material and products of interest to the society will be showcased.

The left side menu contains a link to the Society’s Annual Technical Report (ATR) including previous year’s reports.  The Society’s Technology Focus Areas are also highlighted for direct access to current and emergent information with links in these areas. The RS is also active in the development and maintenance of IEEE Standards.  Follow the Standards link for additional information.

The Society's Technical Networks form a cornerstone of our technical activity and influence. These are also termed Technical Committees. Many of the prior committees are no longer active and are in need of regeneration.  Also, formation of new networks is being sought in following solicitation. 

Solicitation for Society Technical Networks

The Reliability Society is soliciting the formation of new technical networks within the society fields of interest.  The Society is concerned with attaining, assessing, and assuring system reliability, in the broadest sense, and maintaining it throughout its life cycle.  Its areas of interest encompass service and process at all product levels, technologies and technical groups who are designing, analyzing, producing and assessing some portion or aspect of a system, be it hardware, software, devices, processes, or materials.  Therefore, areas for possible technical networks are very broad including the associated technical areas of Availability, Maintainability, Testability, Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Management, Integrity, Security, Quality, Supportability, Human Engineering, and System Safety.  This links to a list of past technical committees.  Revitalization of prior networks, as well as new networks, is needed.

Technical networks are intended to:

1. Monitor the technical state-of-the-art in their field, detect the need for new technical developments, and take action to stimulate interest in such development,
2. Foster closer relationships between this Society and other Societies, Groups and organizations with common interests,
3. Generate or coordinate technical material to spread sphere of knowledge and influence in their field of interest, such as:
   1. Arrange, through appropriate editors, for publishing pertinent papers in IEEE publications (i.e. Transactions, newsletter, ATR, etc.),
   2. Organize and operate sessions at meetings of IEEE at all levels and at meetings of other organizations, and
   3. Generate and develop appropriate standards in its field for processing by or through the IEEE Standards Committee.

Society officers can assist the technical networks in any of these activities.  The Society webpage will also advertise each network and provide an address for other potential members to contact the network.  In the near future, we will be expanding the website Technical Activities area to allow each network to post information and products they wish to communicate to others.

Anyone currently involved in, or interested in creating, a group of like interested individuals in a particular field of interest, is requested to contact Lon Chase, VP Tech Activities for more information on how to become involved.

Lon Chase
VP Technical Activities