Reliability Engineering

Index

• • Accelerated life tests (ALT)
  • Accelerated stress testing (AST)
  • Active redundancy
  • Assignable cause
  • Average outgoing quality

• • Bathtub curve
  • Bayesian network
  • Bayesian reliability analysis
  • Bernoulli trials
  • Binomial coefficients
  • Binomial distribution
  • Binomial expansion
  • Binomial variable
  • Block diagram, see Reliability block diagram
  • Burn-in process

• • c chart
  • Canary
  • Cascade failure
  • Cause-and-effect diagram
  • Censored data
  • Chance (or common) cause(s)
  • Chi-square distribution
  • Coefficient of kurtosis
  • Coefficient of skewness
  • Coefficient of variation
  • Coherent structures
  • Common cause failure
  • Common mode failure(s)
  • Conditional probability
  • Conditional reliability
  • Confidence interval
  • • on the mean, variance known
    • on the mean, variance unknown
    • on parameter for exponential distribution
    • for reliability for success-failure testing
• • Continuous random variable
  • Control chart
  • Control limits
  • Correlation
  • Critical-to-quality (CTQ)
  • Cumulative distribution function
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Cut sets

• • Deductive method
  • Deductive vs. inductive methods
  • Degrees of freedom
  • Derating
  • Design review
  • Design for six sigma (DFSS)
  • Discrete random variable
  • DMAICT or DMAIC process
  • Dynamic system reliability models
  • • parallel model
    • series model
    • shared-load parallel model
    • standby redundant system

• • Expected value
  • • of a continuous random variable
    • (mean) of a discrete random variable
    • of a function of random variables
• • Exponential distribution

• • F-distribution
  • Factor of safety
  • Failure models
  • Failure precursors
  • Failure ...