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Methods for Reliability Improvement and Risk Reduction.

Reliability is one of the most important attributes for the products and processes of any company or organization. This important work provides a powerful framework of domain-independent reliability improvement and risk reducing methods which can greatly lower risk in any area of human activity. It...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Todinov, Michael
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018.
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Table des matières:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Domain-Independent Methods for Reliability Improvement and Risk Reduction; 1.1 The Domain-Specific Methods for Risk Reduction; 1.2 The Statistical, Data-Driven Approach; 1.3 The Physics-of-Failure Approach; 1.4 Reliability Improvement and TRIZ; 1.5 The Domain-Independent Methods for Reliability Improvement and Risk Reduction; Chapter 2 Basic Concepts; 2.1 Likelihood of Failure, Consequences from Failure, Potential Loss, and Risk of Failure; 2.2 Drawbacks of the Expected Loss as a Measure of the Potential Loss from Failure.
  • 2.3 Potential Loss, Conditional Loss, and Risk of Failure2.4 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk; 2.5 Resilience; Chapter 3 Overview of Methods and Principles for Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk That Can Be Classified as Domain-Independent; 3.1 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by Preventing Failure Modes; 3.1.1 Techniques for Identifying and Assessing Failure Modes; 3.1.2 Effective Risk Reduction Procedure Related to Preventing Failure Modes from Occurring; 3.1.3 Reliability Improvement and Risk Reduction by Root Cause Analysis.
  • 3.1.3.1 Case Study: Improving the Reliability of Automotive Suspension Springs by Root Cause Analysis3.1.4 Preventing Failure Modes by Removing Latent Faults; 3.2 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by a Fault-Tolerant System Design and Fail-Safe Design; 3.2.1 Building in Redundancy; 3.2.1.1 Case Study: Improving Reliability by k-out-of-n redundancy; 3.2.2 Fault-Tolerant Design; 3.2.3 Fail-Safe Principle and Fail-Safe Design; 3.2.4 Reducing Risk by Eliminating Vulnerabilities; 3.2.4.1 Eliminating Design Vulnerabilities; 3.2.4.2 Reducing the Negative Impact of Weak Links.
  • 3.2.4.3 Reducing the Likelihood of Unfavourable Combinations of Risk-Critical Random Factors3.2.4.4 Reducing the Vulnerability of Computational Models; 3.3 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by Protecting Against Common Cause; 3.4 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by Simplifying at a System and Component Level; 3.5 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by Reducing the Variability of Risk-Critical Parameters; 3.5.1 Case Study: Interaction Between the Upper Tail of the Load Distribution and the Lower Tail of the Strength Distribution.
  • 3.6 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by Making the Design Robust3.6.1 Case Study: Increasing the Robustness of a Spring Assembly with Constant Clamping Force; 3.7 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by Built-in Reinforcement; 3.7.1 Built-In Prevention Reinforcement; 3.7.2 Built-In Protection Reinforcement; 3.8 Improving Reliability and Reducing Risk by Condition Monitoring; 3.9 Reducing the Risk of Failure by Improving Maintainability; 3.10 Reducing Risk by Eliminating Factors Promoting Human Errors; 3.11 Reducing Risk by Reducing the Hazard Potential.