How to write sound, verifiable technical requirements, including requirements for quality and conformity assessment and reliability and cost, and what is the ISO Oline Browsing Platform and how to use it?
These questions were discussed at the ISO/TC 67 Advisory meeting on quality, conformance, reliability, and cost aspects in standards on 3 March 2022. Ted Fletcher, Runar Østebø and Tom Shortall shared key principles for drafting standards for a group of ISO/TC 67 project leaders from Brazil, China, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
Key messages discussed during the meeting included:
- Requirements drafting
- Clear requirements, one at a time
- Know Directives and use the ISO tools that help OBP
- ISO/TC 67/WG4 Reliability engineering & Technology. Key messages to benefit from existing reliability and cost standards
- Terminology for various terms for appropriate use also in other standards
- Multi-disciplinary analysis techniques that can be quoted as needed
- ISO/TC 67/WG2 Operating integrity management. Key messages to promote standardisation of:
- “Quality” conformance management requirements
- Verifiable technical requirements and
- Verification (inspection testing etc.) activities against technical requirements
Do you want to learn more? The slide pack of the training can be downloaded by the following link.
Please also reach out to the convenors and members of WG2 and WG4 for guidance on the application of these principles when drafting standards!