Reliability Engineering
Abstract
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.
Keywords
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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