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PAGE B7 A CALL FOR STANDARDS -- The Bush administration called on Congress to impose immediate standards for reliability on utilities to prevent further blackouts.
Its touted requirement for mandatory standards for reliability is meaningless; standards have been mandatory in most parts of North America (including New York) for years.
Assembly plants here still tend to be either fairly high-cost operations that rely heavily on imported parts for lack of domestic suppliers, or else low-cost, low-quality operations selling modest numbers of cars that do not meet international standards for reliability and defect-free appearance.
What is more, if manufacturers of MEMS switches show they have successfully met the telecommunications industry's demanding standards for reliability, programs to develop other MEMS products should encounter less skepticism, predicts David Honey, photonics program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Defense Department, which has been a major financer of MEMS research.
Germany's Reinz-Dichtungs-GmbH, a subsidiary of US-based Dana Holding Corp, says that it is setting new standards for reliability and safety of flat gaskets designed for use in the gas industry.
But even after the completion of all three — power plants in Astoria, Queens, and Bayonne, N.J., and a transmission cable from New Jersey to Manhattan — there would not be enough power to meet the standards for reliability required in the city, the report says.
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His collaborative work on Bayesian model development as part of the Reliability Enhancement Methods and Models (REMM) project is included in the industry standard for reliability growth analysis methods.
But Consumer Reports the auto industry's gold standard for reliability information on individual models assigns "predicted reliability" ratings of "poor," the lowest on its scale, to 14 luxury cars currently on the market (you can see all of them in the slide show).
Only two were rated as high standard for reliability, four for validity.
Two instruments (BAQ, PBCS) fulfilled a high standard for reliability and four (BAQ, BVS, PBCS, SBC) for validity (characterized with three or more "*"s in Table 4).
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