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Human Rating of Launch Vehicles: Historical and Potential Future Risk

by Joseph R. Fragola, P.E., D.Sc.; Benjamin J. Franzini;

Approaches..

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Conceptual Design, Design Reliability, Product Reliability, Quality Assurance, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Systems Engineering

Analyzing Interconnection Design Safety Using Bent Pin Analysis

by Nathaniel W. Ozarin,;

Low-tech hazards can cause catastrophic results in safety- critical and other systems...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Design Review, Design Reliability, Fault Tree Analysis, Product Reliability, Quality Assurance, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Model, Systems Engineering

An Optimization Approach for Safety Instrumented System Design

by Lothar Litz; Konstantin Machleidt;

In chemical and process industry SISs are applied to keep under control dangerous processes..

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Systems Engineering, Quality Assurance, Design Reliability

Reliability Predictions to Support a Design For Reliability Program

by Lori E. Bechtold;

Industry and the DoD are working together to revamp reliability prediction processes so that they provide the needed information to the design process in a timely fashion as well as provide relevant information for decisions in testing and sustainable......

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Design Reliability, Failure Rate, Failure Analysis/ Physics of Failure, Product Reliability, Quality Assurance, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Analysis/Prediction/Estimation

Planning a Reliability Growth Program Utilizing Historical Data

by Larry H. Crow, Ph.D

For many years prior to the Department of Def..

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Design Reliability, Failure Rate, Product Reliability, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Model, Reliability Analysis/Prediction/Estimation

Special Topics for Consideration in a Design for Reliability Process

by Georgios Sarakakis; Athanasios Gerokostopoulos; Adamantios Mettas

In this paper, we look at certain areas of the Design For Reliability (DFR) process where missteps or misapplications are common due to misunderstood “common practices” ......

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Design Reliability, Conceptual Design, Failure Rate, Process Reliability, Product Reliability, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Analysis/Prediction/Estimation

Birnbaum Importance in Solving Component Assignment Problems

by Xiaoyan Zhu, PhD; Way Kuo, PhD; Qingzhu Yao

As an important type of reliability optimization problems, the component assignment problem (CAP) is to find the optimal arrangement of n available components to n positions of a system such that the resulting system reliability is maximized...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Failure Rate, Product Reliability, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Block Diagram, Reliability Model, Reliability Analysis/Prediction/Estimation, Design Reliability

Hazard Analysis Based on Human-Machine-Environment Coupling

by Yang Wu, PhD; Xiaoyun Wang, PhD; Tingdi Zhao, PhD; Jin Tian, PhD;

The concept "Human (H)-Machine (M)-Environment (E) coupling" is put forward, and the connotative meaning and representation of the hazards owning to coupling is represented...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Conceptual Design, Design Reliability, Process Reliability, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Model

Risk Assessment Using Design Review Based On Failure Mode

by Schmidt, Roland; Riedel, Gernot J.; Kangas, Klaus

Sustainability requires better reliability possibly improved by risk assessment during product development. Besides FMEA Design Review Based on Failure Mode is a structured method to perform risk assessment. Experience and best practice of this method.....

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Product Reliability, Design Review, Product Development Planning

Model-driven Automated Software FMEA

by Snooke, Neal; Price, Chris

This paper will describe how software FMEA can be automated both for low-level languages intended for safety critical embedded systems, and also for model-driven software developments...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Product Reliability, Design Review, Product Development Planning, Software Reliability

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