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Collaboration

Cooperation with Holland Innovative

RelTest and Holland Innovative established a reliability engineering cooperation in 2020, exchanging expertise in reliability methods, root-cause analysis, data science and training.

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From research, standards and engineering practice

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NIST Technical Note 2376

7 May 2026

Establishing comparability of test results across laboratories

The comparison shows that identical test methods do not automatically produce comparable results. A consistent machine configuration and an unpaired two-sample test help reveal systematic differences between laboratories.

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NASA Safety & Mission Assurance

8 April 2026

Assessing software risk across system and programme boundaries

NASA used generative AI to analyse cross-programme hazard data. The relevant finding is the recurring pattern: faults in commands, data, timing and configuration can affect redundant systems through common causes.

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IEC TC 56

November 2025

Standards work on test principles, field data, FTA and FMEA

The ongoing work highlights the topics being standardised for defensible reliability decisions: statistical test principles, reliability prediction data, field-data collection, FTA and FMEA.

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What does this mean for your project?

Together, we examine how new requirements, findings or data affect risk analysis, testing and the demonstration strategy.