Excellent quality and reliability are inherent in all facets of the pSeries 680 product. These measures are designed to ensure that products operate when required, perform reliably, efficiently handle infrequent failures in a nondisruptive fashion, and provide timely repair in many cases either concurrently or on a deferred basis to allow operational resumption with minimal inconvenience.
Reliability is one of the most significant factors in the design of high-end products.
It begins with the development of architectures, where RAS innovations are of paramount importance. It flows through design and product development stages, where RAS designs are reviewed, assessed, developed, evaluated, and perfected. It continues through the manufacturing and release processes, where the manufacturing quality is extensively measured and is under continual evaluation. The best way to harden a system is to prevent the errors from occurring in the first place. During the design and development process, sub-systems go through a rigorous verification and integration testing processes.