There can be a lot of confusion in the reliability field when we all start talking about regular activities that have taken on acronyms for their real names. We hope this list will help those who are new to reliability. AFR - Actual Failure Rate AFR - Annualized Failure Rate or Average Failure Rate ALT - Accelerated Life Testing ANOVA - Analysis of Variance AQL - Acceptable Quality Level ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASP - Authorized Service Provider ASQ - American Society of Quality ASTR - Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability AVL - Approved Vendor List CAD - Computer Aided Design CAF - Conductive Anodic Filament CALCE - Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (part ofUniversityofMaryland) CAPA - Corrective and Preventive Action CAR - Corrective Action Report or …