Mission-Critical and Safety-Critical Systems Handbook

Contents

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Chapter 1 Best Practices in Mission-Assured, Mission-Critical, and Safety-Critical Systems

1 Roadmap to This Book

1.1 Systems Engineering

1.2 Important Issues

1.3 Material Covered

2 Best Practices

2.1 What and Why?

2.2 Rationale

2.3 Standards and Guidelines for a QMS

3 Project Management and Systems Engineering

3.1 Project Management

3.2 Systems Engineering

3.3 Mission Assurance

4 Process Flows for Developing Products

4.1 Plan, Execute, Review, Report, and Update (PERRU)

4.2 Development Processes

4.3 Processes vs. Procedures

4.4 General Process Models

4.5 An Example of Phases, Processes, and Procedures

5 Standards

5.1 General Standards Organizations

5.2 Industry-Based Standards Organizations