The word reliability can be traced back to 1816 and is first attested to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Before World War II the term was linked mostly to See more

Reliability is the probability of a product performing its intended function under specified operating conditions in a manner that meets or exceeds … See more

Implementing a reliability program is not simply a software purchase; it is not just a checklist of items that must be completed that ensure one has … See more

For any system, one of the first tasks of reliability engineering is to adequately specify the reliability and maintainability requirements allocated from the overall availability needs and, more importantly, derived from proper design failure analysis or preliminary … See more

In practice, most failures can be traced back to some type of human error, for example in:
• Management decisions (e.g. in budgeting, timing, and required tasks)
• Systems Engineering: Use studies (load cases) See more

Reliability prediction combines:
• creation of a proper reliability model (see further on this page)
• estimation (and justification) of input parameters for this model (e.g. failure rates for a particular failure mode or event and the mean time to repair the system … See more

Reliability modeling is the process of predicting or understanding the reliability of a component or system prior to its implementation. Two types of analysis that are often used to model a complete system's availability behavior including effects from … See more