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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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineering discipline
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subfield of systems engineering ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure systems perform intended functions over time
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improve system dependability ⓘ reduce probability of failure ⓘ |
| analyzes |
field failure data
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test failure data ⓘ time-to-failure data ⓘ |
| appliedInIndustry |
aerospace industry
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automotive industry ⓘ defense industry ⓘ medical devices industry ⓘ nuclear power industry ⓘ telecommunications industry ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
complex socio-technical systems
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electronic systems ⓘ hardware systems ⓘ mechanical systems ⓘ software systems ⓘ |
| definesMetric |
availability
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hazard rate ⓘ maintainability ⓘ reliability function ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
reliability of components
ⓘ
reliability of systems ⓘ |
| goal |
improve customer satisfaction
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meet contractual reliability requirements ⓘ optimize lifecycle cost ⓘ |
| involves |
corrective action and feedback systems
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reliability growth analysis ⓘ reliability modeling ⓘ reliability requirements allocation ⓘ reliability testing ⓘ |
| predicts |
failure rates
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mean time between failures ⓘ mean time to failure ⓘ reliability metrics ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
maintenance engineering
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quality engineering ⓘ risk analysis ⓘ safety engineering ⓘ systems engineering ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
IEC 60300 series
NERFINISHED
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IEEE reliability standards NERFINISHED ⓘ MIL-HDBK-217 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studies |
failure effects
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failure mechanisms ⓘ failure modes ⓘ |
| uses |
Markov models
NERFINISHED
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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
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MTBF ⓘ MTTF ⓘ |
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