An overview of reliability engineering principles
- Barringer and Associates, Inc., Humble, TX (United States)
Reliability is the probability of equipment or processes to function without failure when operated correctly for a given interval of time under stated conditions. Equipment and processes failures waste money on unreliability problems. The business issue of reliability is control of failures to reduce costs and improve operations by enhancing business performance with affordable levels of reliability. Reliability numbers by themselves lack motivation for improvements. However, converting unreliability into monetary values, causes numbers to spring to life and guides actions for making cost effective changes, by using actual plant data for costs and failures. Reliability engineering tools are discussed which assist plant improvement programs for reducing the high cost of unreliability.
- OSTI ID:
- 382787
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960154--; ISBN 0-9648731-8-4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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