reliability engineering

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Reliability engineering is an engineering discipline focused on ensuring systems and components perform their intended functions dependably over time by analyzing, predicting, and improving their failure behavior.

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instanceOf engineering discipline
subfield of systems engineering
aimsTo ensure systems perform intended functions over time
improve system dependability
reduce probability of failure
analyzes field failure data
test failure data
time-to-failure data
appliedInIndustry aerospace industry
automotive industry
defense industry
medical devices industry
nuclear power industry
telecommunications industry
appliesTo complex socio-technical systems
electronic systems
hardware systems
mechanical systems
software systems
definesMetric availability
hazard rate
maintainability
reliability function
focusesOn reliability of components
reliability of systems
goal improve customer satisfaction
meet contractual reliability requirements
optimize lifecycle cost
involves corrective action and feedback systems
reliability growth analysis
reliability modeling
reliability requirements allocation
reliability testing
predicts failure rates
mean time between failures
mean time to failure
reliability metrics
relatedTo maintenance engineering
quality engineering
risk analysis
safety engineering
systems engineering
standardizedBy IEC 60300 series NERFINISHED
IEEE reliability standards NERFINISHED
MIL-HDBK-217 NERFINISHED
studies failure effects
failure mechanisms
failure modes
uses Markov models NERFINISHED
Monte Carlo simulation
accelerated life testing
burn-in testing
design of experiments
environmental stress screening
failure mode and effects analysis
fault tree analysis
life data analysis
probability theory
reliability block diagrams
statistics
stochastic processes
usesAbbreviation FMEA
MTBF
MTTF

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Lusser's law field reliability engineering