Table of Contents

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

Part 1: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs

Chapter 1: The History of Reliability and Safety Technology

Abstract

1.1. Failure Data

1.2. Hazardous Failures

1.3. Predicting Reliability and Risk

1.4. Achieving Reliability and Safety-Integrity

1.5. The RAMS-Cycle

1.6. Contractual and Legal Pressures

1.7. Reliability versus Functional Safety

Chapter 2: Understanding Terms and Jargon

Abstract

2.1. Defining Failure and Failure Modes

2.2. Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures

2.3. Interrelationships of Terms

2.4. The Bathtub Distribution

2.5. Down Time and Repair Time

2.6. Availability, Unavailability and Probability of Failure on Demand

2.7. Hazard and Risk-Related ...

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