October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
15h 34m
English
The reliability of a system is the ultimate hallmark of all manufacturing activities. This chapter defines and discusses the concepts of reliability and availability of a system and how they are related to reliability, hazard analysis, failure mode and effects analysis. To makes the concept more clear, illustrations and worked out examples are provided.
Functional reliability; MTBF; Reliability based maintenance; House of RBM; Failure distribution; Induced; Intermittent and wear out type of failures; Severity of failures; Statistical distribution curves of failures—Normal, Poisson, and Weibull; Probability density function; Priority allocation of maintenance activity; Reliability based ...
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