GSFC Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) Reliability and Risk Assessment Branch works to develop analytical and risk assessment processes for spacecraft and payload standard components (PSC) to identify conformance risks and mitigations while increasing safety of Earth and Space systems exploration. Needing a database that would contain the heritage (i.e., the performance, reliability & anomaly history) of payload standard components for risk-based mission assurance, the goal of this project was to create a compressed catalogue/referencing system for mission personnel known as Commodity Usage Guidelines (CUGs). CUGs are populated using vendor data, lessons learned, associated component risks, and other data found within Engineering Peer-Reviewed (EPR) presentations, Flight Review (FR) documents, and the Meta Database. They allow the user to quickly locate aggregated instrument heritage and reliability data in order to make risk-based decisions for future component use and integration. Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) served as the first component CUG entry and were heavily research on the basis of anomaly history, testing results, manufacturer reliability, and overall performance results. The creation of CUGs for PSCs reduces time spent searching through existing risk-related data and saves both time and money in preventing reoccurring performance testing. The fabrication of the CUG catalogue/referencing system aims to serve foundationally for a future SMA Database, and will be updated and refined continually.