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Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability : Best Practices for Systems Engineers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management SeriesPublisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (456 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119058304
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reliability, Maintainability, and SupportabilityDDC classification:
  • 620/.00452
LOC classification:
  • TA169 -- .T676 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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