Apollo Mission Reliability and Electromagnetic Compatibility

The commonality between reliability and electromagnetic compatibility can be stressed only by considering that both disciplines are involved in accomplishing similar goals though one be mathematical and one electronic. Parallelisms between specific work tasks indicate that this commonality is not "far-fetched." It should be noted, however, that even though these disciplines overlap in principle that each is an essential tool for discovering di screpant areas and applying corrective action before " it is too late." This paper emphasizes the need for developing an integrated relationship between the electromagnetic compatibility concept and the reliability concept s o that any duplication of effort can be eliminated without either function losing its individuality. To clarify my point , I am not suggesting that these two disciplines be combined into one effort, but rather that they be complementary; L e . , both efforts used jointly to increase the system reliability.