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The approach to reliability engineering will in
part depend on the type of technology used, program
objectives and requirements. These technologies
include electronic, electrical and mechanical items
or systems, which themselves could be a
developmental, non developmental or Commercial off
the Shelf (COTS) solution. Tasks could be
implemented to address component level to system
level concerns and may range from the material and
processes required to fabricate an item in
question, to compiling software code that will be
used to run a system's safety monitoring
application (e.g. a nuclear power plant or manned
space vehicle), to defining a effective redundant
architecture for a system, such as a
telecommunications network.
The general definition of reliability used
throughout industry and quoted in many engineering
books that have been published on this subject
follows the example as taken from MIL-STD-785. The
definition for Mission Reliability is given
as; The ability of an item
to perform it required functions for the duration
of a specified mission profile.
The main focus of this section is to provide
information on some of the classical qualitative
and quantitative reliability analysis used by the
automobile, defense, and space industry. The
analyses used in the world of reliability
engineering include the following:
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