Accelerated Life Testing

Overview 

According to the commercial provider's website, "...Accelerated Life Testing, formerly known as ALTA software, is an advanced module application available in ReliaSoft Weibull++ for accelerated test planning and quantitative accelerated life testing data analysis. It supports a complete array of utilities for designing accelerated life tests, evaluating the fit of the model, calculating reliability metrics, generating plots and performing related statistical analyses. Additionally, it provides the life-stress relationships required to analyze accelerated life test data with up to 8 simultaneous stress types, where stress is constant or varies with time."

Processes Supported 

• Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) Modeling, Prediction, Allocation and Analysis
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Potential Organizations Associated

• Air Force/ Space Force
• Army
• Defense Agencies
• Navy/ Marine Corps
• OSD/ Joint Staff

License Requirement

• License fee may apply

Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements Addressed

• Design Interface
• Maintenance Planning and Management
• Supply Support
• Sustaining Engineering

Disclaimer

This commercial tool is included in the product support analytical tools database to assist defense acquisition workforce members with identifying product support solutions which potentially optimize system readiness and life cycle cost. The analytical tools database itself should under no circumstances be considered all-encompassing; nor does it in any way warrant or endorse the capabilities, pricing, and/or products of any particular individual, company, capability, or organization. Suggested updates to the description of this particular tool or additions to the tools database are welcome.