Reliability, maintainability, and supportability : best practices for systems engineers

Reliability, maintainability, and supportability best practices for systems engineers

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tortorella, Michael, 1947- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc 2015.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Wiley series in systems engineering and management.
Materias:
Reliability (Engineering)
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009849134906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I Reliability Engineering
  • Chapter 1 Systems Engineering and the Sustainability Disciplines
  • 1.1 Purpose of this Book
  • 1.1.1 Systems Engineers Create and Monitor Requirements
  • 1.1.2 Good Requirements are a Key to Success
  • 1.1.3 Sustainability Requirements are Important Too
  • 1.1.4 Focused Action is Needed to Achieve the Goals Expressed by the Requirements
  • 1.2 Goals
  • 1.3 Scope
  • 1.3.1 Reliability Engineering
  • 1.3.2 Maintainability Engineering
  • 1.3.3 Supportability Engineering
  • 1.4 Audience
  • 1.4.1 Who Should Read This Book?
  • 1.4.2 Prerequisites
  • 1.4.3 Postrequisites
  • 1.5 Getting Started
  • 1.6 Key Success Factors for Systems Engineers in Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability Engineering
  • 1.6.1 Customer-Supplier Relationships
  • 1.6.2 Language and Clarity of Communication
  • 1.6.3 Statistical Thinking
  • 1.7 Organizing a Course Using this Book
  • 1.7.1 Examples
  • 1.7.2 Exercises
  • 1.7.3 References
  • 1.8 Chapter Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Reliability Requirements
  • 2.1 What to Expect from this Chapter
  • 2.2 Reliability for Systems Engineers
  • 2.2.1 "Reliability" in Conversation
  • 2.2.2 "Reliability" in Engineering
  • 2.2.3 Foundational Concepts
  • 2.2.4 Reliability Concepts for Systems Engineers
  • 2.2.5 Definition of Reliability
  • 2.2.6 Failure Modes, Failure Mechanisms, and Failure Causes
  • 2.2.7 The Stress-Strength Model
  • 2.2.8 The Competing Risk Model
  • 2.3 Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability are Mutually Reinforcing
  • 2.3.1 Introduction
  • 2.3.2 Mutual Reinforcement
  • 2.4 The Structure of Reliability Requirements
  • 2.4.1 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria
  • 2.4.2 Reliability Figures of Merit
  • 2.4.3 Quantitative Reliability Requirements Frameworks.
  • 2.5 Examples of Reliability Requirements
  • 2.5.1 Reliability Requirements for a Product
  • 2.5.2 Reliability Requirements for a Flow Network
  • 2.5.3 Reliability Requirements for a Standing Service
  • 2.5.4 Reliability Requirements for an On-Demand Service
  • 2.6 Interpretation of Reliability Requirements
  • 2.6.1 Introduction
  • 2.6.2 Stakeholders
  • 2.6.3 Interpretation of Requirements Based on Effectiveness Criteria
  • 2.6.4 Interpretation of Requirements Based on Figures of Merit
  • 2.6.5 Models and Predictions
  • 2.6.6 What Happens When a Requirement is Not Met?
  • 2.7 Some Additional Figures of Merit
  • 2.7.1 Cumulative Distribution Function
  • 2.7.2 Measures of Central Tendency
  • 2.7.3 Measures of Dispersion
  • 2.7.4 Percentiles
  • 2.7.5 The Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals
  • 2.8 Current Best Practices in Developing Reliability Requirements
  • 2.8.1 Determination of Failure Modes
  • 2.8.2 Determination of Customer Needs and Desires for Reliability and Economic Balance with Reliability Requirements
  • 2.8.3 Review All Reliability Requirements for Completeness
  • 2.8.4 Allocation of System Reliability Requirements to System Components
  • 2.8.5 Document Reliability Requirements
  • 2.9 Chapter Summary
  • 2.10 Exercises
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Reliability Modeling for Systems Engineers: Nonmaintained Systems
  • 3.1 What to Expect from this Chapter
  • 3.2 Introduction
  • 3.3 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit for Nonmaintained Units
  • 3.3.1 Introduction
  • 3.3.2 The Life Distribution and the Survivor Function
  • 3.3.3 Other Quantities Related to the Life Distribution and Survivor Function
  • 3.3.4 Some Commonly Used Life Distributions
  • 3.3.5 Quantitative Incorporation of Environmental Stresses
  • 3.3.6 Quantitative Incorporation of Manufacturing Process Quality
  • 3.3.7 Operational Time and Calendar Time.
  • 3.3.8 Summary
  • 3.4 Ensembles of Nonmaintained Components
  • 3.4.1 System Functional Decomposition
  • 3.4.2 Some Examples of System and Service Functional Decompositions
  • 3.4.3 Reliability Block Diagram
  • 3.4.4 Ensembles of Single-Point-of-Failure Units: Series Systems
  • 3.4.5 Ensembles Containing Redundant Elements: Parallel Systems
  • 3.4.6 Structure Functions
  • 3.4.7 Path Set and Cut Set Methods
  • 3.4.8 Reliability Importance
  • 3.4.9 Non-Service-Affecting Parts
  • 3.5 Reliability Modeling Best Practices for Systems Engineers
  • 3.6 Chapter Summary
  • 3.7 Exercises
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Reliability Modeling for Systems Engineers: Maintained Systems
  • 4.1 What to Expect from this Chapter
  • 4.2 Introduction
  • 4.3 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit for Maintained Systems
  • 4.3.1 Introduction
  • 4.3.2 System Reliability Process
  • 4.3.3 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit Connected with the System Reliability Process
  • 4.3.4 When is a Maintainable System Not a Maintained System?
  • 4.4 Maintained System Reliability Models
  • 4.4.1 Types of Repair and Service Restoration Models
  • 4.4.2 Systems with Renewal Repair
  • 4.4.3 Systems with Revival Repair
  • 4.4.4 More-General Repair Models
  • 4.4.5 The Separate Maintenance Model
  • 4.4.6 Superpositions of Point Processes and Systems with Many Single Points of Failure
  • 4.4.7 State Diagram Reliability Models
  • 4.5 Stability of Reliability Models
  • 4.6 Software Resources
  • 4.7 Reliability Modeling Best Practices for Systems Engineers
  • 4.7.1 Develop and Use a Reliability Model
  • 4.7.2 Develop the Reliability-Profitability Curve
  • 4.7.3 Budget for Reliability
  • 4.7.4 Design for Reliability
  • 4.8 Chapter Summary
  • 4.9 Exercises
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Comparing Predicted and Realized Reliability with Requirements.
  • 5.1 What to Expect from this Chapter
  • 5.2 Introduction
  • 5.3 Effectiveness Criteria, Figures of Merit, Metrics, and Predictions
  • 5.3.1 Review
  • 5.3.2 Example
  • 5.3.3 Reliability Predictions
  • 5.4 Statistical Comparison Overview
  • 5.4.1 Quality of Knowledge
  • 5.4.2 Three Comparisons
  • 5.4.3 Count Data from Aggregates of Systems
  • 5.4.4 Environmental Conditions
  • 5.5 Statistical Comparison Techniques
  • 5.5.1 Duration Requirements
  • 5.5.2 Count Requirements
  • 5.6 Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System
  • 5.7 Reliability Testing
  • 5.7.1 Component Life Testing
  • 5.7.2 Reliability Growth Testing
  • 5.7.3 Software Reliability Modeling
  • 5.8 Best Practices in Reliability Requirements Comparisons
  • 5.8.1 Track Achievement of Reliability Requirements
  • 5.8.2 Institute a FRACAS
  • 5.9 Chapter Summary
  • 5.10 Exercises
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Design for Reliability
  • 6.1 What to Expect from this Chapter
  • 6.2 Introduction
  • 6.3 Techniques for Reliability Assessment
  • 6.3.1 Quantitative Reliability Modeling
  • 6.3.2 Reliability Testing
  • 6.4 The Design for Reliability Process
  • 6.4.1 Information Sources
  • 6.5 Hardware Design for Reliability
  • 6.5.1 Printed Wiring Boards
  • 6.5.2 Design for Reliability in Complex Systems
  • 6.6 Qualitative Design for Reliability Techniques
  • 6.6.1 Fault Tree Analysis
  • 6.6.2 Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis
  • 6.7 Design for Reliability for Software Products
  • 6.8 Robust Design
  • 6.9 Design for Reliability Best Practices for Systems Engineers
  • 6.9.1 Reliability Requirements
  • 6.9.2 Reliability Assessment
  • 6.9.3 Reliability Testing
  • 6.9.4 DFR Practices
  • 6.10 Software Resources
  • 6.11 Chapter Summary
  • 6.12 Exercises
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Reliability Engineering for High-Consequence Systems
  • 7.1 What to Expect from this Chapter.
  • 7.2 Definition and Examples of High-Consequence Systems
  • 7.2.1 What is a High-Consequence System?
  • 7.2.2 Examples of High-Consequence Systems
  • 7.3 Reliability Requirements for High-Consequence Systems
  • 7.4 Strategies for Meeting Reliability Requirements in High-Consequence Systems
  • 7.4.1 Redundancy
  • 7.4.2 Network Resiliency
  • 7.4.3 Component Qualification and Certification
  • 7.4.4 Failure Isolation
  • 7.5 Current Best Practices in Reliability Engineering for High-Consequence Systems
  • 7.6 Chapter Summary
  • 7.7 Exercises
  • References
  • Chapter 8 Reliability Engineering for Services
  • 8.1 What to Expect from this Chapter
  • 8.2 Introduction
  • 8.2.1 On-Demand Services
  • 8.2.2 Always-On Services
  • 8.3 Service Functional Decomposition
  • 8.4 Service Failure Modes and Failure Mechanisms
  • 8.4.1 Introduction
  • 8.4.2 Service Failure Modes
  • 8.4.3 Service Failure Mechanisms
  • 8.5 Service Reliability Requirements
  • 8.5.1 Examples of Service Reliability Requirements
  • 8.5.2 Interpretation of Service Reliability Requirements
  • 8.6 Service-Level Agreements
  • 8.7 SDI Reliability Requirements
  • 8.8 Design for Reliability Techniques for Services
  • 8.8.1 Service Fault Tree Analysis
  • 8.8.2 Service FME(C)A
  • 8.9 Current Best Practices in Service Reliability Engineering
  • 8.9.1 Set Reliability Requirements for the Service
  • 8.9.2 Determine Infrastructure Reliability Requirements from Service Reliability Requirements
  • 8.9.3 Monitor Achievement of Service Reliability Requirements
  • 8.10 Chapter Summary
  • 8.11 Exercises
  • References
  • Chapter 9 Reliability Engineering for the Software Component of Systems and Services
  • 9.1 What to Expect from this Chapter
  • 9.2 Introduction
  • 9.3 Reliability Requirements for the Software Component of Systems and Services.
  • 9.3.1 Allocation of System Reliability Requirements to the Software Component.

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