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The developments mentioned above continued and were strengthened in the years after 1990. The topic of system reliability got more and more popular and a range of new journals, new books, new education programs, new computer programs, new organizations, and a variety of reliability conferences emerged. The first edition of the current book was published in 1994, based on experience from reliability courses at NTNU.

The industry started to integrate reliability in their system development processes, often as part of a systems engineering framework. The topics of reliability qualification and technology readiness became more and more important and requirements were integrated in contracts of specialized products.

The first edition of the important standard IEC 61508 “Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety‐related systems” came in 1997 and required producers and users of safety‐instrumented systems (SIS) to perform detailed reliability assessments.

During this period, more and more software has been introduced in almost all types of systems. Software quality and reliability are now an important part of most system reliability assessments. More recently, security aspects have also entered the scene.

The current survey has highlighted some few fragments of the history of system reliability. A more thorough treatment of the history is given by Coppola (1984), Denson (1998), and Knight (1991) and National Research Council (2015, Annex D). A lot of valuable information may also be found by searching the Internet.