{"title":"A new system-reliability assessment methodology","authors":"W. Denson, S. Keene, J. Caroli","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653813","url":null,"abstract":"A methodology has been developed for assessing the reliability of electronic systems. This methodology consists of modifying a base reliability estimate with process grading factors for the following failure causes: parts; design; manufacturing; system management; induced; and no defect found. These process grades correspond to the degree to which actions have been taken to mitigate the occurrence of system failure due to these failure categories. Once the base estimate is modified with the process grades, the reliability is further modified by empirical data taken throughout system development and testing. This modification is accomplished using Bayesian techniques which apply the appropriate weights for the different data elements. Advantages of this new methodology are that it: uses all available information to form the best estimate of field reliability; is tailorable; has quantifiable confidence bounds; and has sensitivity to the predominant system reliability drivers.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128473152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical analysis of fault trees with dependencies, using decomposition","authors":"A. Anand, Arun Kumar Somani","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653591","url":null,"abstract":"Analytical methods for fault tree analysis involves the determination of the minimum cut sets, whose number grows extremely quickly with the number of events. This problem can be solved by utilizing the methods of decomposition and aggregation. That is, dividing the system into smaller subsystems, solving the subsystems separately, and then synthesizing these results to produce the larger systems' solution. In this paper, we demonstrate a decomposition scheme where independent subtrees of a fault tree are detected and solved hierarchically, a subtree is replaced by a single event in the parent tree whose probability of occurrence represents the probability of the occurrence of the subtree. The decomposition and hierarchical solution can be more useful in case of fault trees with dependencies. Instead of solving the whole system as a Markov model only the appropriate subsystem needs to be analyzed as a Markov model.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116029408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new reliability prediction tool","authors":"W. Denson, S. Keene","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653533","url":null,"abstract":"The structure of a new reliability methodology for electronic systems is presented. Reliability prediction tool has two aspects. First it is used in a priori fashion to scale an initial reliability prediction based upon which development process initiatives are used. Secondly, the model does a \"data fusion\" or integration of all reliability data derived over the duration of the development process. One feature is that the new model introduces a variance measure into the MTBF prediction. The CAE presentation focuses on the a priori part of the model since that is deemed to operationalize a concurrent engineering focus in a timely manner for new product development.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123169921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Gadh, H. Srinivasan, S. Nuggehalli, R. Figueroa
{"title":"Virtual disassembly-a software tool for developing product dismantling and maintenance systems","authors":"R. Gadh, H. Srinivasan, S. Nuggehalli, R. Figueroa","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653676","url":null,"abstract":"A product is typically designed in the assembled configuration. However, CAD systems do not analyze the product design for disassemblability, a significant part of maintenance. This paper presents a new methodology for performing disassembly evaluation of CAD models of designs for maintenance. This methodology involves analyzing the product for disassemblability utilizing several disassembly techniques, such as selective disassembly and destructive disassembly, to assess: (i) the ease of product disassembly for maintenance, (ii) disassembly sequencing to maintain a selected set of components and (iii) disassembly cost for maintenance. The methodology utilizes a metric for quantitative assessment of the product in order to arrive at an acceptable design and to compare alternate designs for maintenance. Moreover, the disassembly methodology presented in this paper can serve as a basis for identifying an efficient product design for maintenance.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124809696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FMEA for multiple failures","authors":"C. Price, N. S. Taylor","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653556","url":null,"abstract":"Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) usually only considers single failures in a system. This is because the consideration of all possible combinations of failures in a system is impractical for any but the very simplest example systems. Even if simulation is used to automate the work of producing an FMEA report, consideration of all possible combinations of failures is not possible, and even if it was possible, an engineer could not be expected to spend the time needed in order to read, understand and act on all of the results. This paper shows how to use approximate failure rates for components to select the most likely combinations of failures for simulation, and how to prune the resulting report to such an extent that it is practical for an engineer to study and act on the results. The strategy outlined in the paper has been applied to a number of automotive electrical subsystems, and the results have confirmed that the strategy described works well for realistically complex subsystems.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116637023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computer-aided maintainability in China","authors":"Hao Jianping, Yu Yongli","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653786","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of the industrial sponsored computer-aided maintainability design and analysis (CAMDA) program is to provide the engineering designer and maintainability engineer with a powerful computer software tool for maintainability design and analysis. With such a software tool, maintainability issues can be considered from the early stages of the design process, and possible maintainability problems can be identified early and avoided without costly design modifications. In current product design and development, maintainability activities are required according to maintainability related standards, and the applicable methods are also specified in standards. The primary objective of CAMDA is computerizing these methods. In addition to standard methods, some other technologies such as stochastic network technologies, artificial neural network technologies and computer animation technologies are also applied to maintainability prediction and analysis. It must be emphasized that CAMDA is not only a computer technology application research, but also an effective and practical software tool applicable to most product design and development programs, and it meets engineers' needs. So, the development of CAMDA is engineering-oriented. It will relieve designers and maintainability engineers from miscellaneous business, and improve product quality without significant increase in design cost.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121667879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"We don't need no self-assessment or concurrent engineering...and no collaboration either!\"","authors":"D. Brown","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653530","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews self-assessment survey approaches developed over the past six years as a management and consulting toolkit. The survey provides a common language across disciplines within an organization, as well as between that organization and an external consulting group. What is more, the toolkit acts as a staffing filter, ensuring that the most suitable staff resources address the most urgent priorities. This approach serves to shape and challenge the common assumptions and attitudes that often thwart long term business success. Brief comments on the typical limits of corporate strategic planning illustrate the benefits of a constructive skepticism in reconsidering widely held perceptions. Considering overall responses from nearly 200 participants with 98 corporate divisions, the participants generally rate themselves highly for competitive strategic planning, followed by process management and organizational approaches. Fulfillment declines in the last two categories-Methodologies & Techniques, and Technology and Tools.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121581891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of path planning and visualization for industrial-design and maintainability-analysis","authors":"C. Law, L. Sobierajski Avila, W. Schroeder","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653682","url":null,"abstract":"Software applications Product Vision, and its successor, Galileo, were developed to allow engineers to interactively fly through a digital virtual jet engine, and automatically determine removal paths for maintenance simulations. Three equally significant hurdles have been overcome during the development of this software, with the following results: state-of-the-art algorithms have been developed to find part-removal paths, create swept volumes, and decimate large models for interactive visualization. A powerful yet easy-to-use application has been developed that can efficiently manipulate large databases. The application has been integrated into many aspects of a large industrial design cycle. The application, Galileo, is being actively used by GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE). The visualization and maintainability analysis technology embedded in this software has eliminated the need for costly physical mockups and pushed maintenance issues to the earliest stages of the design cycle. The tool has facilitated concurrent engineering through visually enhanced communications. It has been adopted for aiding the assembly of engines, and for training service mechanics.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131505072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guidelines for physics-of-failure based accelerated stress testing","authors":"K. Upadhyayula, A. Dasgupta","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653803","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic accelerated stress testing approach, based on physics-of-failure (PoF) principles is presented for the reliability assessment of an avionics electronic module. Results from this case study demonstrate that combined accelerated stress tests may produce complex synergies that can only be controlled through precise PoF assessment. The paper concludes with a set of generic guidelines to design, plan, conduct and successfully implement PoF based accelerated stress tests.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130045448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Software-design risk identification and mitigation using SHADETree/sup TM/","authors":"L. Pullum, J. Bechta Dugan","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1998.653710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1998.653710","url":null,"abstract":"We present a process to identify, and therefore aid in the mitigation of risks related to software design failures in complex systems. Our process includes identification of the exposure to software faults and then the provision of mitigation techniques to reduce the risk, all of which is quantified. The identification of critical components is not simply based on the static structure of a system architecture, but on the combined hardware and software dynamic fault tree for the system. We also tackle head-on the controversial idea of quantifying software failure probability by providing an uncertainty analysis approach to the quantification.","PeriodicalId":275301,"journal":{"name":"Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1998 Proceedings. International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131979723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}