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Medical Device Reliability Program

by Haibel,Chet

The FDA has their Design Controls in the Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 Part 820.30, then for outside the US, we have ISO 13485:2003 Medical devices – Quality management systems..

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-05
  • Keywords:Product Development Planning

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

Using FMECA to Design Sustainable Products

by Janasak, Keith M.; Herman, Richard M.

For many years now Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) has been a very effective technique used for identifying possible failures and mitigating their effect. Although mainly used to identify failures as.....

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

Effective Oversight

by Wasserman, Gary S.

The reliability group of a large defense contractor must report to management their progress in meeting Design for Reliability (DFR) objectives. Management is requesting metrics that they can use to track DFR milestones at each milestone in the phase.....

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

Proactive Risk Management

How to Conduct the Failure Investigation before the Event

by Nijinsky,Sonya A.M.

Here is a simple strategy for proactive risk management that can allow any cross functional team to evaluate products and process for the "hidden monsters" that can do so much damage...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Product Development Planning

Transcending Performability for System Attributes’ Consistency

by Yin, Meng-Lai ; Arellano, Rafael;

For complex systems where different perspectives need to be addressed, maintaining consistency among various system analyses is a challenge. A framework that supports a global view to govern various analyses is critical for integrity of system analyses...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2010-01
  • Keywords:RAMS 2010 Proceedings, Reliability Model, Requirements Flow Down, Product Development Planning

Using Risk Assessment to Mitigate New Business Demands

by Scapin, Carlos Alberto ; Gomes, Luciano de Alencar Miranda ;

Global market requires compliance with legal and regu..

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2010-01
  • Keywords:RAMS 2010 Proceedings, Life Cycle Cost, Product Development Planning, Fault Tree Analysis

Using Electronic Design Automation Throughout The Product Life Cycle

by Mike Silverman; Bryan Stallard;

Several classes of ongoing analysis challenges regularly arise during production maturation of programs in military,aerospace, telecommunication, and medical areas...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2010-01
  • Keywords:RAMS 2010 Proceedings, Conceptual Design, Product Reliability, Product Development Planning, Software Reliability

Reliability Engineering As a Practical Application to Improving System Performance – From Concept to System Retirement

by Sean D. Carter; Daniel M. Deans;

Reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) are three very important and necessary disciplines that must be applied within the system engineering process to ensure program success...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Copyright: 2011
  • Keywords:Design Reliability, Maintainability, Product Development Planning, Product Reliability, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability

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